Can anyone identify this "extra" from Holderreads?

[Darkjeweler]

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Why not send the picture back to the place you got her from and ask them?

 

[jdywntr]

Unless you are planning on breeding for show etc, you could just leave her with the rest. Did you have another blue female? Or a black female? I can't remember from the pics. If you don't, you can just remove the blue/greenish eggs that she will lay and eat those and incubate the rest.

 

[chickensioux]

I will pm you my address so you know where to ship Greg

 

[manybirds]

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I'll bet it's a magpie. there are lots of magpie's out there with poor coloring, any breeder knows you can't help what colors you get form magpie's and only 1 in 10 is going to be half way nicely marked. the type looks just like it, magpie's are related to runners and have the same head but don't carry themselves as high as a runner. I dought it is a poorly bred runner from holdereads.

 

[FarmrGirl]

I don't believe that Holderread would even have "defective" ducks and they won't have mixed breeds either. Looks like a Blue Swedish to me. I have a Black Swedish named Houdini Duck who looks very similar: http://2mooses.weebly.com/meet-the-quackers.html#Houdini.

Houdini hangs out with my Runners and is also very smart, like your Greg. She can't really fly anymore but she could flap fairly far when she was younger.

 

[galgo98]

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Why not send the picture back to the place you got her from and ask them?

I did.

 

[galgo98]

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I definitely plan on keeping her! She is the only dark female, so we should be able to distinguish her eggs. (so far only 1 is laying a bluish egg a day) She is an excellent forager. I just feel bad for her b/c the runners are constantly bee-lining across the yard. She looks up from foraging and there go the runners again, you can tell she is getting annoyed with her ADHD sisters & bros!! I was just trying to figure out what she might be so we can get her some ducks that might stay in one place with her for more than 1 minute!!

 

[galgo98]

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Houdini does sound like Greg and she's cute too!! But I don't see Blue/Black Swedish available on Holderread's website.

Your website is very nice!! All of your animals are beautiful!! And I can't believe you are only 30 mins from DC!!
I wouldn't think Holderread's would have mixed breeds on purpose. But, if devilishness is an inherited trait... I wonder if her dad jumped a fence and hooked up with a runner, then returned to his pen....

 

[DuckyGurl]

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x2! She is so pretty! That coloring is exquisite!

 

[Rosecomb-Ryan]

What did Holderread say when you emailed them? I didnt think PQ Runners could fly...