Please, show me your ducks

[notallducksinmypond]

@Papaye
And yet, my Lavender Indian Runner hen is what is called "Splash" or "Silver" elsewhere...

...This Lavender girl, on our left here :

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Called "cane Coureur Indien Lavande" in France...
...but "Splash Indian Runner hen" elsewhere...

Clearly, we would actually need to wait for a definitive standard to be established (internationally) in order to know exactly how to call some colours...!

truly beautiful girl
i will get one myself next year, a friend of mine has found a splash/silver (BL/BL) drake for her blue duck (BL/bl) so there will be light blue ducklings on the ground hopefully by march/april <3
maybe i can get them myself , Salix and Rauch could produce some (assuming she is mallard and just heterozygote black (penciled underwing) 25% apricot mallard, 25% blue mallard, 25% blue, 25% splash

...You can fin your Brown Runner drake in France if ever you come here... even though some of them are NOT Chocolate.

I maybe have found an itsybitsy brown mallard (? biiiig questionmark on the color) boy (although his health is a little questionable)

pictured next to my mallard girl he does not look brown at all.... (and sorry for the bright blind spot my pure white duck produces in this picture... ooops)

and i´m currently on the "waiting list" for a drake that appears to be brown dusky mallard, we will see...

("Chocolate" is actually a shiny Brown, just to be precise...)

haha! here we go again... chocolate in my knowledge is solely used for brown on black...

in germany there is a official standard for brown trout (called "erbsgelb" , referring to the yellow pea colored females) despite the name, they are beautiful, nuptial plumage on the drakes light, like apricot trout but instead of grey they show a light rusty almost rosé color on the head and wings
there are some for sale but they are north of hannover... like 800km away and i can not justify driving this far for a duck,
maybe eggs.. next year... via shipping

Yeah... so, it takes time to know what gene she has...

Just to know : does "Brown x Lavender" give sex-linked ducklings?

no, brown on brown is not sex linked... just brown drake on non brown duck works that way

Wow... Salix is beautiful!!

oh yes he is... now done : nuptial and shiny

Do you, maybe, have Fairy coloured ducks in this group?

i´m sorry fairy? what ? google just gives me pictures of pink cartoon ducks or glittery ones :§

That's the colour Blue Fawn (Blue Mallard) that I find impossible to differenciate from Blue Trout... on the DRAKES at least. (The hens look different!)

i think nuptial plumage is at this point very hard... juvenile they should be differences


on another note... on the hunt for colors, look at that:

this is Fraxinus, he was the fourth of the "surprisingly messy ducklings" (besides Tilia , Rauch and Josefine) and i think he might has a BIG trout calico spot
i´ve waited for any iridescence on head or back to show but no...
left side shows standart trout patch, lower back and right side completely black, all of the dark feathers , even the small ones on the head are pure black without any green/blue iridescence , his wings are white, one of his drake curl feathers is white, the other one black

i will pair him with a mallard girl and a trout girl, both without white, to see if he is
a) in fact black (some black/black pied ducklings should appear)
b) trout or mallard (if he´s trout some trout babys should be there, if not, all of them are mallard)
c) homozygote for the pied (all pied or half pied ducklings)

 

[Papaye]

Hi.

truly beautiful girl

She is!
I really like her!!

But since she is my first Splash duck hen ever AND I don't know how old she is exactly, I don't know if her grayish feathers are her juvenile or adult ones...?

So : I don't know if she will stay grayish, or if she will get the white plumage we usually see on pictures of Splash coloured duck hens...!

(For what it's worth : I think she is still a teenager.)

i will get one myself next year, a friend of mine has found a splash/silver (BL/BL) drake for her blue duck (BL/bl) so there will be light blue ducklings on the ground hopefully by march/april <3

Lucky you...!!!

I am probably going to try making them myself next year, by breeding my Blue Runner drake with my Blue Runner hen.
(Only) 25% of the ducklings should be Splash coloured, so I hope to be lucky enough to get some...

maybe i can get them myself , Salix and Rauch could produce some (assuming she is mallard and just heterozygote black (penciled underwing) 25% apricot mallard, 25% blue mallard, 25% blue, 25% splash

You would need to make some tests.

...Good luck!

I maybe have found an itsybitsy brown mallard (? biiiig questionmark on the color) boy (although his health is a little questionable)

If he is, he will kind of look like a Khaki coloured drake... but with darker (brown) coloured feathers on the back.

(If so, he will be amazing!)

haha! here we go again... chocolate in my knowledge is solely used for brown on black...

Yeah...
Black is what add the shine to the Brown plumage in order to makes it (what is called) Chocolate.

(Unlike Brown ducks, Chocolate coloured ducks thus have dark blue wing speculum...)

in germany there is a official standard for brown trout (called "erbsgelb" , referring to the yellow pea colored females) despite the name, they are beautiful, nuptial plumage on the drakes light, like apricot trout but instead of grey they show a light rusty almost rosé color on the head and wings
there are some for sale but they are north of hannover... like 800km away and i can not justify driving this far for a duck,
maybe eggs.. next year... via shipping

Well... you could always drive this far for the duck... and other things you can think about for the time being!

Or just ask/pay someone to get the duck for you...?

i´m sorry fairy? what ? google just gives me pictures of pink cartoon ducks or glittery ones :§

Oh my God!!
Search for "Faery Indian Runner" on Google!!!

Here are examples I have found of "Faery Fawn Indian Runner" :
• https://www.facebook.com/IndianRunn...es-were-standardised-in-200/2441902866026908/
• https://ms-my.facebook.com/apricotvalleywf/videos/the-duck-the-myth-the-legend-the-faery-fawn-indian-runner-duck-isnt-she-gorgeous/2108102179319703/

(I actually have one Fairy Fawn Indian Runner hen, but : I still have not taken a good enough picture of her, and she still has her juvenile plumage anyway...)

on another note... on the hunt for colors, look at that:

this is Fraxinus, he was the fourth of the "surprisingly messy ducklings" (besides Tilia , Rauch and Josefine) and i think he might has a BIG trout calico spot
i´ve waited for any iridescence on head or back to show but no...
left side shows standart trout patch, lower back and right side completely black, all of the dark feathers , even the small ones on the head are pure black without any green/blue iridescence , his wings are white, one of his drake curl feathers is white, the other one black

i will pair him with a mallard girl and a trout girl, both without white, to see if he is
a) in fact black (some black/black pied ducklings should appear)
b) trout or mallard (if he´s trout some trout babys should be there, if not, all of them are mallard)
c) homozygote for the pied (all pied or half pied ducklings)

You sooooooo need to open a thread about HIM...!!!

He is the weirdest coloured Indian Runner I have seen in my life, even though I HAVE already seen Calico spots...!!

He is seriously amazing. And CUTE!
Breeding him should be fun...!

 

[notallducksinmypond]

for the time beeing i think i can not maintain a thread for him
but i have some nice photos for the collection
of course, just for you, another Salix photo, he really gets darker over time

Hosta, my blue dusky girl

A little bit of Tilia, lavender, with her beautiful brown spots

Sam, blue trout

three boys, one gene difference
left to right Sam, blue trout (Blbl); Olaf, mallard or trout (definitely NOT brown, he´s the one from my previous post, i wasn´t sure about the color) and salix again, apricot trout (BLBL)

AAAND, my newest addition (220km drive back and forth)
say hello to "Mokka"
definitly brown
and given the non existent white collar, very light purple-copper-ish wing speculum and (with sunshine) blue-copper-ish head maaaaybe brown DUSKY
at the moment he´s just a little skittish

 

[Madhouse Pullet]

for the time beeing i think i can not maintain a thread for him
but i have some nice photos for the collection
of course, just for you, another Salix photo, he really gets darker over time
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Hosta, my blue dusky girl
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A little bit of Tilia, lavender, with her beautiful brown spots
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Sam, blue trout
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three boys, one gene difference
left to right Sam, blue trout (Blbl); Olaf, mallard or trout (definitely NOT brown, he´s the one from my previous post, i wasn´t sure about the color) and salix again, apricot trout (BLBL)
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AAAND, my newest addition (220km drive back and forth)
say hello to "Mokka"
definitly brown
and given the non existent white collar, very light purple-copper-ish wing speculum and (with sunshine) blue-copper-ish head maaaaybe brown DUSKY
at the moment he´s just a little skittish
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Cuties!!

 

[Luv Ducks]

for the time beeing i think i can not maintain a thread for him
but i have some nice photos for the collection
of course, just for you, another Salix photo, he really gets darker over time
View attachment 4042239
Hosta, my blue dusky girl
View attachment 4042241
A little bit of Tilia, lavender, with her beautiful brown spots
View attachment 4042240
Sam, blue trout
View attachment 4042237

three boys, one gene difference
left to right Sam, blue trout (Blbl); Olaf, mallard or trout (definitely NOT brown, he´s the one from my previous post, i wasn´t sure about the color) and salix again, apricot trout (BLBL)
View attachment 4042238

AAAND, my newest addition (220km drive back and forth)
say hello to "Mokka"
definitly brown
and given the non existent white collar, very light purple-copper-ish wing speculum and (with sunshine) blue-copper-ish head maaaaybe brown DUSKY
at the moment he´s just a little skittish
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So happy that you can deal with that many drakes. All of mine are Call duck size so they won't hurt any of my hens.

 

[sarahgray18]

Funny that you mention Dusky Feather Waterfowl, I am hatching eggs from them just now. I ordered 2 whites and 3 of their "Apricot Trout Project" eggs (All 5 developped well and are wiggling jist fine at day 27, so I would recommend them for aure if ever you would like to order from them). I cannot wait to see what color I'll end up with!

For now I have 3 4-week old ducklings: 2 Welsh Harlequin and 1 Cayuga. Here's a picture

Hello @ILoveMyDucks123 , sorry this is random, but I also ordered from Dusky Feather Waterfowl. I ordered 12 Indian Runner hatching eggs of various colours. Do you mind sharing your experience? This will be my first time hatching eggs and getting them shipped, so any help is appreciated. Also, what incubator did you use to have all of them developed at day 27?

Also, would love to see photos of your runners now if you don't mind as I also ordered some of the apricot trout project eggs.

 

[notallducksinmypond]

So happy that you can deal with that many drakes. All of mine are Call duck size so they won't hurt any of my hens.

At the moment they are a lot... it´s relatively peaceful, given the actual ratio is 9 girls to 6 boys (two of them were not planned at all, I bought Olaf as "brown", the only thing about him beeing brown was the loads of mud... the other one, Tofu , i failed to cull because he was one of my first ducklings, and now he´s an a*sshole )
the roam freely with the chichens and the ponys on about 8000m², space defintely helps.
but I need to size down on drakes, to maintain my color breeding goal and the sanity of myself and my girls

 

[Dontworrybequacky]

I'm thrilled to share my ducks with you. I have 14 young black runner ducks, 8 of them hens. They started laying on New Years day and we are getting 4 to 5 dozen eggs a week. My husband Craig has business in town today and I've sent 4 dozen eggs with him to share with family members. My daughter said an enthusiastic

yes to "golden eggs".

 

[notallducksinmypond]

I'm thrilled to share my ducks with you. I have 14 young black runner ducks, 8 of them hens. They started laying on New Years day and we are getting 4 to 5 dozen eggs a week. ...View attachment 4045262

they are soooo beautiful ducks, gorgeous green shimmer, but please tell me the secret to such clean eggs from ducks? Mine are messy to say the least...

 

[Dontworrybequacky]

Thank you. We provided a nest box and they prefer to lay in there. We bed primarily with pelleted sawdust for horse stalls and add extra pine shavings in the nest. We don't want to shorten the storage life of our eggs by washing them so we just use a damp paper towel on an especially dirty egg now and then. Because we are at the beach, our soil is more sand than dirt. I am sure that helps a little too. Quackity quack to you!