Duck Breed Focus - Indian Runner

[apricotvalleywf]

Haha very cute! They are perfectly fine to eat! We even had the coveted double egg, a small tiffany blue egg, inside a gigantic blue tinged white egg. Photo's attached.

 

[PotatoWaffles]

Haha very cute! They are perfectly fine to eat! We even had the coveted double egg, a small tiffany blue egg, inside a gigantic blue tinged white egg. Photo's attached.

That is so flippin' cool! How does that even happen??

 

[apricotvalleywf]

Just a misfire during egg reproduction and a formed egg doesn't move past the shell gland, a new egg comes and forms around it, receives a shell and the duck lays the new egg.

 

[AimToMisbehave]

If they are perfectly formed, standard sized eggs then it would be safe to assume that it is not your 4 month olds.  I would expect to see atleast a week of smaller, odd shaped eggs before standard eggs are laid.

I just got a scale today; the first egg was 64g, then all the rest since have been 69-72g. They've all been perfectly egg-shaped. I have a sneaking suspicion that one of my older girls, Mirage, might be a mallard-pattern, though. Could it be her?

My husband thinks it's our blue and white one, Weyoun:

Although, I suppose given that all my older ones (7 months old tomorrow!) came from a local backyard hatchery, they might just not be 100% Runners... so color-coding might not be as helpful as I'd hoped.

 

[GoldenFlight]

Right? I'm tempted to try to get a night vision camera out there, just so I'll know for sure! Whoever it is has given me five eggs since last Monday, and they've all been PERFECT.

I wanted to do the same thing when my ducks started laying.

 

[GoldenFlight]

Just wanted to show you guys one of my fawn and white runners flying.[VIDEO]

 

[pattyhen]

That is really cool. I have runners but they've never flown. Thanks for sharing the video.

 

[NathanZee]

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[GoldenFlight]

That is really cool. I have runners but they've never flown. Thanks for sharing the video.

I've learned that with a lot of patients and good teaching almost any duck can learn to fly a little ways. That same runner has now flown over 1/4 of a mile and so have one of our Buffs and Khaki campbells.

 

[lexielou623]

So, I am now getting two duck eggs every morning. I only have two runner ducks so that means they are for sure both girls, right? Then why are they trying to mate with each other?? It's making me crazy. Is this normal if they don't have a drake??