Mate in September

[Papaye]

Hi!

Yes, I was told my beige and white ducks when I bought them were "deer runners" This is them, my babies , I have Cayugas also, 3 females and 1 male

Okay...
Maybe the one who told you that was confused about the name of the colour, and thought "deer" instead of "fawn"... (See what probably happened? Ah, ah!)

Your Runner girls are Fawn and White Indian Runner hens.
Very cute ones!

There actually are different kinds of Fawn and White - details here :
• https://runnerduck.net/standard-colours.php,
• https://www.duskyfeatherswaterfowl.com/pied.

Your girls, specifically, are an American version of Fawn and White Indian Runners.
That's a really beautiful colour, in my opinion...

If I am understanding what I have learned right, this colour give a partly gray head to the drakes.

...I own a Fawn and White Indian Runner young drake, but given I live in France, the colour is different from yours.

Mine is apparently what you would call Emory Penciled : he is Brown and White coloured, with greenish, kind of shiny black marks on the head... and a blueish, shiny black rump.

Here he is - named Patch, and at 3-and-a-half-months OR 4-four-months-old :

(...With my oldest Khaki Campbell drakelet, and my two sole Cayuga - still very young - drakes...
Patch - even though he is a purebred Indian Runner - prefers to stay with these 3 boys instead of playing with my other Runner ducks...!)

Fawn and White, whatever the phase, is just a splendid colour on ducks...!

Can someone post pics of true runner ducks?

Yes.

Here are some of mines :

Bad quality... recent picture took at a bad time...
...But we at least can see the Indian Runners' upright stance!

Yes! They're exactly like thatthey were eating, so they're bent over

Sometimes, there are Indian Runners that are not so upright... but it does NOT mean they are not purebred.

We would need more pictures of your girls, but in my opinion, they are purebred Indian Runner hens...

 

[80slady]

Yes! They're exactly like thatthey were eating, so they're bent over

Deer runners are very talkative, busy!! Very busy! They're very scared of everything, I move slowly when doing anything so they done jump out of their skins! They know me now and I'm in heaven!

Oh I see, you're saying when yours stand up straight they do look like this?

Yes! Exactly! It won't let me post more pictures

 

[80slady]

FINALLY!

 

[80slady]

They're not standing up all the way

 

[Papaye]

FINALLY!

Your Runners could be mixed...
...or bad genetic, I don't know...?

See the area around their sternum? It looks much, much too full for Indian Runner ducks...

I own a Runner girl that really has not a very upright stance for an Indian Runner...
...still, since she is purebred, my hen has the body of an Indian Runner duck - and so, she is on the slender side... unlike your Runner hens!

Thus... we can wonder if your girls are purebred but overweight, or if they are mixed...?
(Actually, do you even care if they are not purebred...? ...Does it matter to you?)

I am no expert, and not used to overweight birds... so, I can not tell you more than that.
Sorry.

But : in any case, your girls are still cute...!

 

[80slady]

Your Runners could be mixed...
...or bad genetic, I don't know...?

See the area around their sternum? It looks much, much too full for Indian Runner ducks...

I own a Runner girl that really has not a very upright stance for an Indian Runner...
...still, since she is purebred, my hen has the body of an Indian Runner duck - and so, she is on the slender side... unlike your Runner hens!

Thus... we can wonder if your girls are purebred but overweight, or if they are mixed...?
(Actually, do you even care if they are not purebred...? ...Does it matter to you?)

I am no expert, and not used to overweight birds... so, I can not tell you more than that.
Sorry.

But : in any case, your girls are stand up right, the pictures I took are in the morning and their foreing or swimming, but they were rescues from

 

[80slady]

Mine do stand up, the pictures I've taken here were un the morning were they were foraging and swimming , they were I considered rescues from a flea market where I purchased them but actually, I don't care if they're purebred the Cayuga I bought from a reputable breader and I'm getting some Silver heads, a pair. I absolutely appreciate all the information you've given me because I'm absolutely new at all this so i can use all the information and help available . Either way , I love all the babies I've been able to love I really appreciate all the research you've given me

 

[80slady]

P.S. when I got the runners, they were missing feathers and so skinny and weak, so if they're considered "overweight " so be it, fat and sassy I prefer over scared, weak and scrawny

 

[80slady]

Hi!



Okay...
Maybe the one who told you that was confused about the name of the colour, and thought "deer" instead of "fawn"... (See what probably happened? Ah, ah!)

Your Runner girls are Fawn and White Indian Runner hens.
Very cute ones!

There actually are different kinds of Fawn and White - details here :
• https://runnerduck.net/standard-colours.php,
• https://www.duskyfeatherswaterfowl.com/pied.

Your girls, specifically, are an American version of Fawn and White Indian Runners.
That's a really beautiful colour, in my opinion...

If I am understanding what I have learned right, this colour give a partly gray head to the drakes.

...I own a Fawn and White Indian Runner young drake, but given I live in France, the colour is different from yours.

Mine is apparently what you would call Emory Penciled : he is Brown and White coloured, with greenish, kind of shiny black marks on the head... and a blueish, shiny black rump.

Here he is - named Patch, and at 3-and-a-half-months OR 4-four-months-old :

View attachment 3951935

(...With my oldest Khaki Campbell drakelet, and my two sole Cayuga - still very young - drakes...
Patch - even though he is a purebred Indian Runner - prefers to stay with these 3 boys instead of playing with my other Runner ducks...!)

View attachment 3951936

Fawn and White, whatever the phase, is just a splendid colour on ducks...!



Yes.

Here are some of mines :

View attachment 3951938

Bad quality... recent picture took at a bad time...
...But we at least can see the Indian Runners' upright stance!

View attachment 3951941



Sometimes, there are Indian Runners that are not so upright... but it does NOT mean they are not purebred.

We would need more pictures of your girls, but in my opinion, they are purebred Indian Runner hens...

Thank you, purebred or not is fine with me, I really don't know if they're purebred. It apparently only let's me post so many pictures a day.. I sit with mine in the morning when they're busy eating. Where I live it's hot and humid right mow so the afternoon I'm inside. I make sure all they're food and water are changed daily but in the early hours I only have 10 total ducks, I git them for a hobby afyer major back surgery so I could be busy. I. live on 126 acres in North Central Arkansas.

 

[80slady]

Your Runners could be mixed...
...or bad genetic, I don't know...?

See the area around their sternum? It looks much, much too full for Indian Runner ducks...

I own a Runner girl that really has not a very upright stance for an Indian Runner...
...still, since she is purebred, my hen has the body of an Indian Runner duck - and so, she is on the slender side... unlike your Runner hens!

Thus... we can wonder if your girls are purebred but overweight, or if they are mixed...?
(Actually, do you even care if they are not purebred...? ...Does it matter to you?)

I am no expert, and not used to overweight birds... so, I can not tell you more than that.
Sorry.

But : in any case, your girls are still cute...!