Here you can see the chocolate and swedish. My previous blue swedish looked exactly the same as the black swedish, except blue.
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I think this might be the case for me. Every photo of swedish blue ducklings shows a lighter bib and even lighter areas on the beak and feet. My "shorter" looking runner doesn't have any of those features. I think she is just not going to be as upright as her sisters. Plus, she is just tinier all around. My ducklings are only a few days old so she has time to get a little "taller" so we shall see. It's actually very exciting watching them grow and change!I would still be suspicious of it being a blue runner that's not true to type. I don't keep runners myself, but I've heard that some runners don't stand as straight and tall from certain hatcheries.
I'm pretty sure mine is a runner that doesn't stand like a runner. Looks just like blue runners other folks have posted pics of.I think i have one similar to what your talking about. Been trying to figure out the breed as well!
And I stand corrected? This little one hatched 2 or so days ago appears to have a bib! Drake is not Blue Swedish but a Welsh Harlequin... I guess Id better find that square chart and experiment a little.I’ve a Blue Swedish duck and among a hatch last year I had a grey duckling and hoped it was another Swede. She is very large bodied with greyishblue feathers like her mom but no bib and a few black feathers. He father was likely a Welsh Harlequin or a Cayuga drake. I understand Blue Swedish require dominate genes in order to produce offspring with a bib.
Somewhere online I found a four square gene chart just for ducks. It’s out there somewhere....
Looks a bit like a blue runner but build of a Swedish. Darker bill more common in blue runners too but not unheard of with Swedish just typically greenish. Possible cross?Here’s a photo