Is my duck a Runner?

[AdamD77]

Well according to Google Maps, Bristol is just under 2.hrs away from me, so quite a way away, though not as bad as I thought it was.. I know the farm we got our ducks from has a ton of ducklings for sale right now, but that's quite a way away from you. I'm sure if you search around you can find somewhere more local that sells ducks

With regards to food, I use Heygates/Farmgate depending what place I get it from. If it's three weeks old I would still have it on chick crumbs. For all my ducks I had them on chick crumbs from 0-6 weeks, growers pellets from 6-16 weeks and then layers pellets from 16 weeks onwards, but its flexible by a week or two probably.

 

[gofasterstripe]

Yes but if its 3 weeks now, its goin gto take forever to feed a bag of starter, it might be better to go straight onto the grower.

 

[AdamD77]

Yeah it would take forever with a big bag and one duckling, but I was thinking in the farm shop where I get my duck food, they actually have small bags of the different feeds, maybe head-sized, so a bag of that may be good if it can be found, then onto growers...

 

[littlenell1]

Hi there,
Am in UK too but in West Wales. I am normally in Bath area once a month and will be there in a week on 8th June! We have runner ducklings at moment- our first hatch! Lovely they are...no idea on sex at moment. Take a look on preloved website, often have adverts for ducklings etc and you can put it to show those closest to you. I use it a lot! You can get small bags of pellets on ebay as well, or if there is a feed store near you they might have bins of feed that you can just take as much as you need.

Pics of my 5 adults

 

[littlenell1]

Just thought, our mini appleyard has stripes down head...will try and find a pic, however she is not upright like the runners.

 

[bristolducks]

Think I'll get a 1kg bag of starter and a 5kg bag of grower from ebay. Had a look on farmingads.co.uk and tradeit and there seem to be a few local breeders that I could get a companion from, think I'd rather get a duck than a drake as I prefer to have 2 ducks or 1 duck and 1 drake than 2 drakes if the duckling turns out to be a drake. It's tweets are starting to get a bit of a quack to them now, so if voice sexing works it could be a duck.

Glad to hear that there are some Bristol related people on here with ducks, I'm actually heading to west wales (near st.davids) for a week on 9th June - trying to decide whether to take the duckling as the place I'm staying accepts pets - not sure how they'd feel about a duck though!

 

[littlenell1]

Welcome to put her into our ducky B&B if that is any help!! We are near Aberporth

 

[bristolducks]

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Might well take you up on that offer, could be a good intro to other ducks!

Here's a couple of links to pictures of the little duck taken about a week ago
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2333256/eugene/IMG_0149.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2333256/eugene/duckling2.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2333256/eugene/Duckling.jpg

S/he's about double the size now!

 

[Sore Thumb Suburbanite]

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Might well take you up on that offer, could be a good intro to other ducks!

Here's a couple of links to pictures of the little duck taken about a week ago
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2333256/eugene/IMG_0149.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2333256/eugene/duckling2.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2333256/eugene/Duckling.jpg

S/he's about double the size now!

I think you were dead-on on the breed... It will be so pretty when it grows up! Buddy him/her up soon so there is a good bond... I wish a trout runner would wander into my yard!

 

[littlenell1]

That last pic made me laugh. I have similar gu pudding ramikins in the crate with the ducklings, and the water bowl is the same colour too!