Runner and Mallard cross?

[Vickers58]

Does anyone else have a mallard x runner? This surprise duckling has us wondering what it may grow up to look like.... Please share pictures if you have them!!

Here are the parents....

 

[GreenSahara]

I wish I did!

 

[shortgrass]

Does anyone else have a mallard x runner? This surprise duckling has us wondering what it may grow up to look like.... Please share pictures if you have them!!

Here are the parents....

Are you still around? Have an updated picture?

 

[Russian Blue]

I have hatched quite a few of the reverse cross, a fawn and white runner drake with a mallard. The resulting ducks are either all buff (strangely enough) or medium brown. In my avatar pic, the drake in the center and the girl on the far left are runner x mallard. This is a wonderful cross, IMO. They are smaller in size, lay well and can't fly over the fence.

 

[GoldenFlight]

I'm crossing my fawn and white runner drake with my mallard hen this spring.

 

[NathanZee]

I have hatched quite a few of the reverse cross, a fawn and white runner drake with a mallard. The resulting ducks are either all buff (strangely enough) or medium brown. In my avatar pic, the drake in the center and the girl on the far left are runner x mallard. This is a wonderful cross, IMO. They are smaller in size, lay well and can't fly over the fence.

Can they fly at all?

 

[blueducklings]

I ordered a batch of runners 2 summers ago and the breeder said a mallard might have gotten into the enclosure
The result was a bunch of runners that did not stand totally upright and had somewhat fatter bodies
They could also clear a 3 foot fence
They had beautiful colors but they had a wild streak
Not like the runners I am used to getting from this breeder

They were also quite a bit shorter than the pure bred runners I have

 

[Russian Blue]

Sounds like it could have been a wild Mallard.

I ordered a batch of runners 2 summers ago and the breeder said a mallard might have gotten into the enclosure
The result was a bunch of runners that did not stand totally upright and had somewhat fatter bodies
They could also clear a 3 foot fence
They had beautiful colors but they had a wild streak
Not like the runners I am used to getting from this breeder

They were also quite a bit shorter than the pure bred runners I have

 

[Russian Blue]

They can get off the ground a few feet for a very short distance, but they have never gotten over my 5 foot fence.

Can they fly at all?

 

[NathanZee]

They can get off the ground a few feet for a very short distance, but they have never gotten over my 5 foot fence.

That's surprising! My runners and my mallards (obviously mallards) can fly better than you describe, maybe the hybrids are heavier than both parents?