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Crested Ducks
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Names
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Also known as
Le canard Huppe' in France/Belgium. Ciuffate in
Italy
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Country
Of Origin;.
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Great Britain
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Carriage;
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similar to
the Campbell;upright carriage and a long, broad
body
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Purpose;...
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.......Eggs../
Exhibition
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Egg
Colour
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..................... eggs white
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Egg
Numbers
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.............100+
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Breed
Defects. .
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. . . .Any
colour is permitted. Defects are thus split
crests or deformity rather than colour breed
points
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Incubation:
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. . . . . .
.28 days.
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Breed
Hints....
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****.Not a
beginners breed ****
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Weights;
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4 to 6
pounds/ drake is 3.2kg duck is 2.7kg.
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Breed
Tip
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Kept as pair
or trio
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Info
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There is also
a Crested Miniature that was developed in
Britain in the 1980s /90s also a crested
call
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The crest
is essentially a mutation associated with skull
deformities and known for hundreds of years. There are
those who claim that crested ducks first appeared in
Britain, which is unlikely but they were certainly first
Shown here and appear in many early poultry books .
Genetic mutations appear occasionally all over the world.
Selective breeding would then have increased the numbers
of birds with the same characteristic. 17th century Dutch
paintings show crested ducks on wildfowl such as Melchior
d'Hondecoeter (1636 -1695) and Marmaduke Craddock (1660 -
1717) from Somerset in the Uk showed them
The crest
is formed from a mass of fatty tissue that emerges
through a gap in the cranium.( skull) From this, feathers
grow. Crests vary from centrally placed, full crests,
rather like powder puffs, to knobbly protuberances with
just a few feathers; or the occasional earring when it
has 'slipped'. The crested gene can be bred into any
breed except Muscovy as one parent crested will breed a
percentage of crested offspring .All crested seldom breed
successfully but if they do produce better stock. If
using a crested female with a large crest watch as the
drake uses this as to ' assist ' mating and she can get
injured easily. The tuft of feathers on the head, which
occasionally appears, having been recognized as a point
of attraction, selected and bred for of the off spring
many will be plain headed but carry the crested gene so a
crested drake will turn any breed crested . . they also
have the energy for this so watch out
The crest
gene is an incompletely dominant one. ie, if an chick
receives a double dose of the gene &endash; one from each
parent (homozygous) it will die in the shell. If only one
of the parents passes it on (heterozygous) the resulting
hatches will be :- 25% will not hatch, 25% will not have
crests and 50% will have crests. If a crested
heterozygous bird is crossed with an un-crested one, the
resulting hatch should be 50% crested and 50% plain. So,
as you can see, breeding Crested ducks is challenging and
not recommended for beginners; also if the crest is so
large as to intefere with normal eating and mating etc it
would need to be 'trimmed' to allow the duck a normal
life.
The
Lethal Crested Gene
This gene
is an incompletely dominant gene with a lethal variant.
If C=crested and p=plain non-crested, it works like
this:
Crested
Drake =C p (this means that a crested drake in a pen
can turn any breed crested)
Crested
Duck = C CC Cp
their
offspring will be:- pp is a non-crested
duckling,
......................................Cp
is a crested duckling,
.....................................CC
(theoretically crested) dies in the shell due to skull
deformities.
Breed Specific Links
cyborganic.com/People/feathersite/Poultry/
Ducks/Crest/BRKCrestedDucks.html
www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/8806/page3.html
www.ansi.okstate.edu/poultry/ducks/CRESTED/
glasgowzoo.inyourcity.com/d59841.htm
www.poultrypages.com/crested.htm
www.angelfire.com/country/DOGWOOD/duckpix/crest.html
CRESTED;LARGE
Ducks;....Breed
Info'
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Julie
Christopher
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W.MIDLANDS
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Tel 0121 605
7944
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Tony & Sue
Axon
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Devon
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Tel 01404 822
459
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Paul Darby & Carol McCouat,
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West Midlands
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01922 449 801
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HICKS WATERFOWL
WORLD
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OSWESTRY
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Tel 01691 655 635
weekends
Tel 07818 036 118
weekdays
grahamhickss@hotmail.co.uk
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Curtis
Oakes
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Penn/USA
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001 814 425
8247
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Frank B
Jones
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Cheshire
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01270 811
682
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Alan
Kerr
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N
IRELAND
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Tel 028 207
41365
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Sandra
Watson
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SOMERSET
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Tel 01458 241
719
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CRESTED;BANTAM Ducks;.......Breed
Info'
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HICKS WATERFOWL
WORLD
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OSWESTRY
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Tel 01691 655 635
weekends
Tel 07818 036 118
weekdays
grahamhickss@hotmail.co.uk
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Alan
McKee
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ANTRIM
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Tel 028 256 651
284.
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Rosemary
Sharpe
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MONMOUTH
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Tel 01600
713868
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CRESTED;CALL Ducks;.........Breed
Info'
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John
Soper
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HAMPSHIRE
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Tel 01256 850
355
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Mrs E
Davies
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Pembrokeshire
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Tel 01437 532
585
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