Lavender Indian Runner: New Update And New Pics!

[HenPen]

DuckFanatic I apologize if it seems any of us have taken over your thread and if you would like I will start a new one just let me know...

 

[DuckFanatic]

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No no it's fine

I love seeing pictures of your guy's pretty duckies

 

[DuckFanatic]

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Lets see some pictures!!

Yes please!!

 

[HenPen]

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No no it's fine

I love seeing pictures of your guy's pretty duckies

Really wish you were closer so Snowy could have a boyfriend LOL

 

[kawonu]

I just emailed our club secretary about these blue genetics. He is our go to guy for genetics.

"With simple blue in ducks it works the same way as blue in chickens. The blue dilution is incompletely dominant. If you breed blue to blue you will get 25% black (no dilution), 50% blue (one 'dose' of dilution) and 25% silver (two dose). Yes, in ducks it is referred to as silver but in chickens it is generally referred to as splash.

Lavender is kind of a confusing term because people are using it to refer to different things. The Silkie people are calling their new variety of Silkies lavender but it is actually self-blue (which is a recessive trait without lacing on the feathers). Lavender in ducks is different with alot of people. Most refer lavender if the have the blue gene AND the chocolate gene. In Muscovies you have lavender and lilac varieties. Lavender can be confusing but if you are working with simple blue genetics the term is silver. "

Hope this helps!

 

[HenPen]

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Thank you!!

 

[kawonu]

Your welcome!

 

[DuckFanatic]

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No no it's fine

I love seeing pictures of your guy's pretty duckies

Really wish you were closer so Snowy could have a boyfriend LOL

Wouldn't that be great?

LOL

 

[L0rraine]

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So I remembered this thread from awhile ago. I just hatched four babies from my Runners and ended up with two blacks and two silvers?. I've posted pics of the parent Runners. The blue is the drake and the two ducks are a blue (gone prematurely white) and a Saxony. But I'm just curious if you might be able to pick your club secretary's brain to see if lavender is a possibility given that the Saxony Runner could be one of the parents -- and/or how I could even tell? I've tried to figure things out from Dave Holderread's book, and it's a little helpful, but I have no idea how the Saxony combination works out with the solid (if she's even the mom). The two ducks shared a nest and their eggs looked virtually identical so wasn't sure which ones belonged to whom.

I'm excited to see how the two light colored ones turn out because I fell in love with Snowy when this post first showed up and can't believe I might be lucky enough to have my very own.

 

[Sweetfolly]

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Those babies look a lot like some I just hatched - parents were a White Runner duck and a Buff Runner (who looks more Saxony or Trout than Buff, but never had eye-stripes as a duckling or juvenile...) drake:

No idea what they are genetically. They look like they have the Buff dilution and the Blue dilution....
I don't mean to hijack the thread, just saw L0rraine's picture and had to share mine too, since they look so similar!