Guess the Duck!! (Indian Runner Ducks)

[revolutionmama]

4hooves&featheredfriends :

They are beautiful! The white markings, I was told are referred to as "trout" markings. You have blue, black and white duckers.

Congratulations and have fun with them.

Here is a picture of a Trout runner left one in the front (hope nobody minds me posting these pics

I don't want to get off the subject. On the sex of the Runner - Males - drakes have a curl at the end of their tail w/ a low pitch voice, not like the loud quack of a Female duck

 

[froggie71]

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Here is a picture of a Trout runner left one in the front (hope nobody minds me posting these pics

I don't want to get off the subject. On the sex of the Runner - Males - drakes have a curl at the end of their tail w/ a low pitch voice, not like the loud quack of a Female duck

http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL266/11071128/19660012/388929802.jpg

Love all your beautiful runner colors! They are so pretty!

 

[revolutionmama]

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Here is a picture of a Trout runner left one in the front (hope nobody minds me posting these pics

I don't want to get off the subject. On the sex of the Runner - Males - drakes have a curl at the end of their tail w/ a low pitch voice, not like the loud quack of a Female duck

http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL266/11071128/19660012/388929802.jpg

Love all your beautiful runner colors! They are so pretty!

Thank you! I try and have as many colors as possible - standard and rare.

 

[teresa-78]

Thats been a great help, yeah looks like a lavender it is... feet are yellow/orange..... oh and if you would not mind my trout has started to get a slight curl in its tail, they only
5 weeks old so think it may be too early, and another thing is it has the standard colour of the wild mallard ducks, could this possibly be a drake???? please say no lol oh and when the sun shines on it, the head appears to have green feathers coming.

Im banking on it being female, as I dont want to have to get rid of any because of having to many drakes...... (hmmmm could just go buy more ducks

lol).

Yeah love my crested runner, its names Patrick.... son chose it lol, is starting to get green feathers appearing, its looking ever so bling lol.

 

[CityChicker]

If you are talking about your bird in this post, it is not a Trout. It is a Grey. It is somewhat hard to tell at that age because the juvenile plumage resembles the adult male eclipse plumage, but judging by the green on the top of the head of the bird pictured, I would bet it ends up being a drake. If that is just a funny reflection on the picture, it might end up being a hen (you can usually tell by voice at that age as well). Without a doubt though, it is a Grey, not Trout.

Editing to add- Wow! Going back reading the rest of the thread, lots of great pictures and beautiful Runners. Your bird on the third page, Teresa, does look like possibly a Lavender. Genetically, that is an easy color to breed for, but hard to get good quality color in like yours and the other beautiful Lavender (so many end up being far too light in color because the sex-linked brown lightens the color so much). Anyway, there are a couple other colors that can give similar appearance, but I think you are right in saying Lavender. If you knew what all colors the breeder housed together, that would give a more clear answer.

As far as the birds you think are Trout though, they are Grey (and there is no Grey Trout). Grey is the wild-type Mallard color. Trout is light phase wild-type and looks completely different. The picture Revolutionmama posted shows a bird that is definitely Trout. In the wild type series, birds with one Blue dilution are Blue Fawn (probably what you are calling Grey Trout) and birds were double Blue dilution are Pastel. In the Trout series, birds with one Blue dilution are Blue Trout. Birds with double Blue dilution are Saxony. Again though, in your pictures, I don't see any birds that are Trout. Your darker bird is a Grey and the one I am guessing you are calling "Grey Trout" is a probable Blue Fawn. There are a couple of mismarked colors that can give similar appearance to a Blue Fawn, but it is doubtful that is the case with your bird. They are quite pretty though and you have the building blocks to breed several cool colors!

 

[revolutionmama]

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The curl in my experience doesn't show up until they are a little bit more mature. What kind of sound is it making? Can you hear the pitch yet? This year has actually been a good year for me - lots of ducks and not drakes

 

[froggie71]

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This guy is a fawn & white runner and Khaki Campbell mix. He is young in this pic (I'll have to get a more updated one) and his coloring has changed a bit. I was wondering if you would consider him a Blue Fawn and he seems to have a lot of blue coloring as well as fawn in him.

 

[DaiquiriDuck]

Wow this conversation got busy whilst I was gone!!
Just a quick update, all 8 ducks (yes 8) survived the move to wales and are loving the new home. They they are dissapointed as they were tole Wales was a rainy country and we havent had any rain as of yet!! (Im not complaining)

We have 3 more IR who are white, a drake and 2 girls we suspect. They are mums, we hatched them from eggs.
My ducks are all doing well, we hatched out the first lot of their babies a few months ago but they have all gone to new homes now *sigh* They still arent too sociable though

Also got another brood of my IR eggs in the incubator as well as some chocolate IR eggs

Will post piccys soon!

And I LOVE all the IR pictures

Keep them coming

Edit: P.s. I have no idea about duck colours, I tend to go for non-standard colours in ducks anyway, hence my splodgy ducks. I also have the most random coloured pekin chickens youd ever meet!
As for drakes I go by the quack now. All my girl ducklings had deeper louder quacks and the boy is still cheeping but its very husky now. He is also taller and thicker necked than the girls. They are about 2-3 months old now

 

[CityChicker]

Yea, Froggie! You have no idea what a big help you are posting that picture! A couple other people have Runners they are trying to decipher the color on and were wondering what Blue Dusky and Cinnamon looks like. Yours would be a Cinnamon (with the addition of one Runner/Pied pattern gene). It would have inherited dusky mallard and brown dilution from both parents and one blue dilution from the Fawn and White, making it Cinnamon (m^d/m^d, d/d, Bl/bl).

Blue Fawn is an entirely different color. It is just wild-type (Mallard) plus one blue dilution gene. It is actually not at all similar to Fawn, despite the name. As with all wild-type colors, the Blue Fawns have distinct eye stripes. Birds with solid head are usually dusky based, not wild-type.

 

[teresa-78]

aahhh now im confused what colour my ducks are lol, I have a grey trout... well I thought??? The one on the lead is the grey trout
... well what I thought was a grey trout???

Why would the pic of my runner I posted above be a grey?? im confused lol it has no grey on it?? and yes it has a green head, looks lovely lol