Anyone with Blue Runners?

[4hooves&featheredfriends]

OK, so my blueys are hilarious and I love them. In the morning, I am greeted by quite the "feed me" chorus. I wish I could tape it...then they make the duck parade out to the aisle way and down to the pond. Every night about 7 PM they waddle there way up from the pond. Anyway I thought I could tell by the teal feathers on the wing tips that I had 1 drake and two females, but now I am not so sure.

Can anyone tell me what the teal indicates? I will post pics when I can get them up, right now I am housesitting and only have access to my PC in the morning.

Or how can you tell with blues the sexes?

 

[HenPen]

Sorry if I am hijacking your post but can you tell me where you got your Blue runners?? I would like to add a few to the Black and fawn/white I currently have. Thanks

 

[Duck Keeper]

Look for the drake feather, it's a curl near the tail feathers of the males.
Besides that, you can listen to the sound of their quack, or lack thereof. If they whisper, they're drakes.

 

[AHappychick]

until they get the curly tail feather the only way I can tell is after they are 6 weeks. If I pick them up the girls honk the boys hiss.

I have extra blue drakes if anyone wants any.

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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Holdereads has them, we got an order this spring of Gray runners and they shorted us one gray but added 2 blue's. Ours haven't feathered out yet so I don't know howm they will look when feathered out.

Steve in NC

 

[Renegade]

Holdereads says it's sold out of runner ducklings for 2009.

Donna

 

[4hooves&featheredfriends]

I guess I will have to take pics of them, as they are 8-9 weeks and I haven't noticed a drake feather, which I was looking for. They all seem very chatty and quacky - but one does seem a bit more quite.

The only thing that seemed a bit different was this teal coloration in the wing tip.

 

[AHappychick]

just pick up each one you will know right away at that age who is a boy or girl. they sound so different. the boys dont honk at all, so any quack/honk sound is a girl.

 

[4hooves&featheredfriends]

Ok by the last post I have 2 girls and a drake.

 

[HenPen]

Great!!