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[Luv Ducks]

Funny that you mention Dusky Feather Waterfowl, I am hatching eggs from them just now. I ordered 2 whites and 3 of their "Apricot Trout Project" eggs (All 5 developped well and are wiggling jist fine at day 27, so I would recommend them for aure if ever you would like to order from them). I cannot wait to see what color I'll end up with!

For now I have 3 4-week old ducklings: 2 Welsh Harlequin and 1 Cayuga. Here's a picture

Is your Cayuga a Runner Duck? I have a black Runner Duck that looks just like it and I was just wondering. I wasn't sure the difference between a Black Runner and a Cayuga Runner if there is such a thing. Thanks in advance.

 

[RossAcres]

My pastel call ducks

 

[ILoveMyDucks123]

Is your Cayuga a Runner Duck? I have a black Runner Duck that looks just like it and I was just wondering. I wasn't sure the difference between a Black Runner and a Cayuga Runner if there is such a thing. Thanks in advance.

Hey @Luv Ducks, my black duck is a Cayuga ''normal'' duck. I had a black runner duckling lately on my last hatch, but unfortunately, I lost her... I was curious to see if she were to be identical to my Cayuga but with the runner shape. Here is a picture of my Cayuga as adult.

 

[Luv Ducks]

This is my crested Silver Swedish. In the US, silver means having two blue dilution alleles, it is called splash in other parts of the world. The girls can looks all white, like mine. Her brothers, who I only saw pictures of, were a light gray.
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I bred her to a drake who was 1/2 Khaki Campbell and 1/2 Silver Appleyard. The ducklings were mostly sex-linked. The blue ducklings on the left were boys. The lavender duckling (blue plus brown), far left and second picture was female.
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This is my lavender, all grown up:
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Lately, I have been trying to raise Hookbills. My first two ducklings were Dusky drakes, heterozygous for recessive bibbing (the white wing to tips).
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All grown up:
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I believe this would be the same color as a dark Campbell.

My third duckling was also Dusky but he has sex-linked brown. In the US, I think we call him a chocolate dusky but he is a brown dusky elsewhere. My Australian friend informed me that chocolate should only used with extended black.
Anyway, this is him as a duckling and now. He also is heterozygous for recessive bibbing.
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After three drakes, I purchased a female Hookbill. She is a brown mallard, also called Sepia and Nutmeg, I believe. She is wild type or mallard with sex-linked brown.
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I recently hatched eggs from her and my brown dusky drake. I got two brown mallard ducklings (I think one girl and one boy), and one gold Snowy (or Silver outside of the US) duckling. My pair must be heterozygous for the harlequin allele. I think this duckling is a girl but the jury is still out since they are just 4 weeks old today.
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Today:
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Hope this helps!

I was surprised that your female was labeled as a Mallard as she looks identical to my Rouen ducks with the double eye stripes and so do her ducklings. I have Mallards and they are much smaller with a single eye stripe. I guess there must be different types that I am unaware of????

 

[p4PaDuck]

These are my 5 ducks an in a few pics my dog joy and my chickens. I have magpie pair, the drake will never mate with the Pekin hens just his hen. He is very gentle and sweet. Next id my other drake, a khaki Campbell. He is more skittish and more rambunctious. He only mates with my two hens (Pekin). The two drakes live together in the smaller run by themselves and the duck hens live on the big run with chickens. Also my two Pekin hens who lay every day. They are the breed I would get over and over again. Very sweet and great little kid birds. The my magpie. Very sassy funny little bird. Five pounds but acts like she’s 100 pounds and rules the world.

 

[cheezenkwackers]

I was surprised that your female was labeled as a Mallard as she looks identical to my Rouen ducks with the double eye stripes and so do her ducklings. I have Mallards and they are much smaller with a single eye stripe. I guess there must be different types that I am unaware of????

As I suspect you know, all the domestic breeds of ducks are decended from Mallards except Muscovy. Among them are three basic color patterns caused by one gene: wild type or mallard, dusky, or restricted. Mallards, Rouens, and my Dutch Hookbills shown in that post, all display the pattern wild type or mallard which is called that because it is what wild Mallards have. The dusky pattern does not have eye stripes and causes muted speculum color (and drake head color) like a Khaki or Dark Campbell. The Restricted pattern restricts color on the ducklings to the top of the head like a Mohawk and top of tail like a Silver Appleyard. All that to say, I was referring to the color pattern of my Dutch Hookbills not their breed.

 

[Duckpond1245]

Here is my 4 runner ducks a few months ago they are not pure bred, more of a barnyard mix but not from me so I don't know parents.

This is them know at 4 months old. They are a mix of breeds but this is my guess of what the are mainly

A white runner

A mallard runner

A black swedish runner mix

Chocolate runner mix

I'm planning of getting a female magpie, khaki campbell, welsh harlequin and a Welsh harlequin drake from a local breeder soon.

 

[Luv Ducks]

Hey @Luv Ducks, my black duck is a Cayuga ''normal'' duck. I had a black runner duckling lately on my last hatch, but unfortunately, I lost her... I was curious to see if she were to be identical to my Cayuga but with the runner shape. Here is a picture of my Cayuga as adult.

Oh my Goodness, your Cayuga is beautiful. My Black Runner Duck has different colors coming in like the Cayuga but still has the upright stance. It was got from a man that let lots of ducks be penned altogether so he was not sure of the breed. There were so many that I could not even remember what all he had. They were with Turkeys, Guineas, and Chickens and Geese but there was a huge area for all of them so they all got along fine. Thanks for the info about yours. I was just trying to figure out if a Cayuga duck could be a Runner duck too.

 

[Luv Ducks]

As I suspect you know, all the domestic breeds of ducks are decended from Mallards except Muscovy. Among them are three basic color patterns caused by one gene: wild type or mallard, dusky, or restricted. Mallards, Rouens, and my Dutch Hookbills shown in that post, all display the pattern wild type or mallard which is called that because it is what wild Mallards have. The dusky pattern does not have eye stripes and causes muted speculum color (and drake head color) like a Khaki or Dark Campbell. The Restricted pattern restricts color on the ducklings to the top of the head like a Mohawk and top of tail like a Silver Appleyard. All that to say, I was referring to the color pattern of my Dutch Hookbills not their breed.

Thanks for the info, I was just a bit confused and some days it just doesn't take much to do that to me, lol.

 

[Luv Ducks]

Thanks for the info, I was just a bit confused and some days it just doesn't take much to do that to me, lol.

These are my 5 ducks an in a few pics my dog joy and my chickens. I have magpie pair, the drake will never mate with the Pekin hens just his hen. He is very gentle and sweet. Next id my other drake, a khaki Campbell. He is more skittish and more rambunctious. He only mates with my two hens (Pekin). The two drakes live together in the smaller run by themselves and the duck hens live on the big run with chickens. Also my two Pekin hens who lay every day. They are the breed I would get over and over again. Very sweet and great little kid birds. The my magpie. Very sassy funny little bird. Five pounds but acts like she’s 100 pounds and rules the world.

Beautiful Ducks.