In Love With My Newly Hatched Runner Duckling!!

[stumble_n_mumble]

lol! annmarie! i hope its not half runner!!! should be full runner

 

[tia]

My little black runners looked like that when they were little.

 

[stumble_n_mumble]

aw! so cute! ive wanted runners for about 2 years now and im so happy with this one. do you think mine will be the really skinny tall ones or the fuller runner ducks? i never got to see what the parents of mine looked like

lol

 

[jennytg3]

So cute! Mine were yellow when they hatched, then turned white, and now that they're feathering out they seem light brown. Are most of them yellow when they hatch?

 

[Sweetfolly]

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Oh, it does look like a little runner! I didn't mean to suggest it was mixed! It's little head looks very Indian Runner-y! There's no telling how "upright" it will be when it's grown though - any chance you could still get pictures of the parents?

In my little ones I can definately see both the Runner and the Hookbill in them. The girls stand up big and tall like their dad.

This is one of the girls (at 3 days old), and her runty little brother who I helped hatch two days after her, so he's only a day old in the picture:

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Indian Runners come is LOTS of different colors - maybe more than any other breed, besides Calls. They can be all sorts of colors when they hatch! It sounds like yours might be Fawn & Whites - they look yellow as ducklings, and end up looking like this (picture is from Feathersite, I hope I'm not breaking all sorts of copyright rules by linking to it!)

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[priss]

Awwwwwwwww I'm in love toooo. Good job Silkie!!

 

[stumble_n_mumble]

aw there so cute!

my silkie hatched today!!!! it was a lavender split egg... sooo i got a black one! but there is white under her chin!! im so excited to see the colors shes turn!!