Runner duckling colors?( update with new pics. on pg. 3 )

[Crayonsmom]

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I didn't know ducks shrunk! lol.

Can't wait to see how they look in a few weeks! I love runners.

 

[Duckchick2011]

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I didn't know ducks shrunk! lol.

Can't wait to see how they look in a few weeks! I love runners.

I just noticed that, LOL

Ducks certainly do not SHRINK, in fact they double in size right before your eyes

 

[Duckchick2011]

Here's an update pic of them together when they were just a bit bigger.

They are huge now but I don't have any good pics of them.

The white one(Duncan) is without a doubt a pekin

The smaller one is starting to make me question whether or not it is a runner either. It completely gave up standing straighter and looks like any other big floppy half grown duckling, and looks to be growing a completely brown suit of feathers.

Will post better pics tomorrow.

 

[FenDruadin]

Look to me like a fawn/white and a silver. Silvers are unusual and GORGEOUS. They are the product of a cross between any two birds in the blue spectrum (not black): blue x blue, blue x silver, or silver x silver. Starts with a black gene (or two), topped with TWO doses of the blue dilution--one from each parent--and ta-da, you get silver.

Could also be a fawn/white crossed with a blue, which will sometimes produce a silver-ish bird sometimes referred to as lavender.

Both colors (fawn/white and silver) are standard colors, but if you cross them they will create non-standard colors, because they're not in the same color family.

They are both very cute ducks!!

 

[Duckchick2011]

Here are some update pics:

The smaller one with the purplish beak has developed lighter mottled feathers on her back, her belly is a uniform khaki color.
I think shes gonna be a fawn runner...

 

[FenDruadin]

Pretty Pretty! She is gorgeous. Don't know what that color is, but it's purty. Congrats.

 

[Duckchick2011]

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Thanks, I am sure she appreciates the praise, LOL

 

[AdamD77]

Does anyone else think that the "Pekin"'s head shape looks a bit more Runnerish than a normal Pekin? It's got quite a straight line from beak up to around the eyes. Could it possibly be a Runner crossed with a Pekin? I don't have Pekin's so I'm no expert, just a thought...

 

[gofasterstripe]

Looks all Pekin to me..my Jumbo has a straight line up and over her head from her beak too.

 

[Duckchick2011]

I'm fairly sure he's a pekin, he has grown much faster and bigger than all my other ducks, fatter by far and none of the runner straightness

The other I'm am thinking is a fawn runner but with bad conformation. Sometimes she stands nice at tall but half the time she looks like any other duck...