I have 6 purebred runner drakes from the rare colored Holderread line that I would like to share with BYCers 2 look like the straightest standing appleyards, 1 I bought last winter as an adult blue trout
2 that looks like golden
One I'm not sure
Haven't quite figured out every color
PM if...
I have 6 very beautiful rare pure bread runner drakes from the Holderread line that I would like to share with BYC runner lovers
Let's keep the Holderread line going!!
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I raise just Holderread Rare Colored Runners.
Nothing else. But I am getting rid of some of them and concentrating on 2 colors.
Too bad I did not read this earlier. I was just in Maine last week checking out Bates :)
I am not a farm, so I really can't keep every pretty color :)
I will have some...
Welcome to the colorful world of runners!
A nursery down the hill has 3 of my ducks and sad to say their pond is now void of any fish
Six runners in a 75 gallon pond would still generate a lot of salts
My koi liked pristine water unless your pump has a very very big filter I wouldn't do it
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BYC is having problems with the mobile app. My pictures are in my phone
I am selling 3 boys before they fully feather out...so I will never really know what they will grow up looking like.. I think I have 2 appleyard runners in that group.
Guess I will have to do this again next spring. I...
Nope, I kept one of every shade and color... just to see what they will grow up to be.
So Blue trout, Saxony, Gold Trout, Appleyard, "Gray" Trout, etc, but every shade of these......
My breeding stock had 3 trout colored drakes and lots of different trout colored girls and one appleyard...
The ones in the back are not silvers. Silver is actually extremely rare. It is actually a trout type color. Base color is white with reddish head and neck and beautiful spots on the body. There is a good picture of it in the ashton's book.
The one you have is a solid type color, a blue. Blue is...
If you are trying to end up with an imprinted duckling, the best bet is still to hatch one* out yourself.
Plus the fun you will have is priceless. However hatchititus is extremely contagious. There is no known cure.
(*one of every duckling color, tone and shade)