SO, I DID THE HAPPY DANCE LITERALLY, RIGHT ACROSS THE PEN!
I have been waiting for these guys to hatch for forever it seems, mum was the blue & white mammoth and dad was Murraysan, my sepia. I expected blue & whites, maybe some straight whites, promised pick of all the fat little white ones to Youri - SORRY! I saw some starting to hatch yesterday, thought maybe a couple of black wildtypes, thought maybe the eggs wouldn't be any good as the duck was locked up with her ducklings and started to lay again. I caught her on the first egg / day of lay and put her into THE man's pen, threw away the first 2 eggs . She sat on 11, hatched 11!!!! I got 3 x wild type black, 1 x wild type black & white, 4 x white with lavender caps (maybe silvers yet
), 2 wild type lavenders, and one perfect atipico lavender! She has been named Princess Sofia and has been moved into the quails broody box to be spoilt stupid - she is perfect! Right down to the beak and leg colours - you should see the colour of the tail upclose - beautiful! Here she is (sorry about the crappy camera / pics - Santa could not afford to give the kids a better one as he spends all his money feeding poultry!):
