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BLACK VS CHOCOLATE COLOURS
A comparison of the dominant black and recessive brown dilution.

Same two, facing right: chocolate (left), black (right).

Chocolate (left) Black (right) at about 3 weeks old. The one ducking in the middle is a campbell.

Chocolate (lower) black (upper). These are day-old ducklings - the black has not yet lost its egg-tooth.

Black (left) chocolate (right)

Black.

Black in front and chocolate behind.

Black.

The same three, this time black (left) and chocolate (right).

The two in front are black. The one on the left has a more pronounced colour on its bean (that teardrop-shaped bump on the end of the bill). A dark bean is preferred. The duckling in the back is a chocolate.

Black. Note the characteristic 'stripe' of colour down the back at the root of the down. This is typical of appleyards. This baby is not yet dry so the colouring is easier to see than it will be later.

Chocolate (brown).

This baby is brown.

This is the correct colour - the result of full colour rather than the brown dilution.

Adult duck - chocolate coloured - which is a non-standard colour.

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