[Image description: a female Muscovy duckling is feathering out in white, grey, and beige - a coloring called “lavender” among breeders. Her duckling down remains on her head in patches, creating a pattern of freckles around her face]
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It’s a teenage duck between its baby dawn and its adult feathers?
Yes, though sometimes they’ll carry those color differences through into adult feathers. We have a few girls with spots of color in otherwise white areas of the body, which is a pattern / variety called ‘pied’