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Blue Runner sexing by feet color
My wife and I bought 3 Blue Runner ducklings hoping to get 1 female. They are about 5 weeks now but their feet are still very dark. Do we have 3 drakes?!? This picture was at week 3 but the feet still look the same. Dark/speckled. -
Black specs in duckling water and in plumage
I have three 4-week old ducklings. Blue Runners. They are in a 4'x2' brooder (out-growing it!) with pine shavings. The entire setup gets changed twice a day, and sanitized weekly. Yesterday morning I noticed tiny black specks in their water, and in their plumage. They even had little bits of...