Runner Crosses - I need pics! And runner questions

[Goat_Walker]

Well im getting a runner drake,and since I dont have any runner gals Id like to see some runner crosses!

Also, are runners good egg layers? I hear that the egg laying gene comes from the drake.


Im used to intergrating youger ducks into my flock - now How do I intergrate an adult?

 

[luvmychickas]

The only part of your post I can answer is the egg laying. My girl is a little over a year and lays a big white egg everyday

She is such a good girl

 

[FenDruadin]

Runners are great layers, if they've been well bred. Mine lay an egg a day all summer long, and then off and on all winter. More eggs than we can eat.

 

[DuckFanatic]

Here is my buff/ runner mix.. not the most current pictures though, sorry

Right now he is all feathered out and all buff with a little band of white on his neck that doesn't go all the way around.

 

[froggie71]

I just posted pics on your other thread LOL. Congrats BTW. I'll have to get better pics tomorrow
ETA runners are terrific layers. We've had an egg a day since they started laying until they went broody and now in a molt. Expecting the our their babies to start laying in October.

 

[DuckFanatic]

oops didn't mean to post that twice

 

[Goat_Walker]

The buff x runner pictures are PERFECT! considering I have a buff hen that loves going broody.

 

[Wifezilla]

JJ was a runner/khaki. When she was hatched we thought she was a khaki. Then her legs turned orange and she got really skinny.

JJ is on the left.

 

[DuckFanatic]

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Glad I could help out

I will try to get some more updated pictures tomorrow.. meanwhile.. I have some more recent pictures but he is feathered out now and looks much different

He has grown so fast

Too bad he wasn't a girl.. weve had to change his name from Pebbles to Bam Bam

 

[TerriLaChicks]

This is Ritz and Graham Quackers.
Ritz is 1/2 runner & 1/2 pekin.
Graham is 1/2 runner & 1/2 Khaki campbell.

When they are out of the water & excited they do stand up tall & you can definitely tell the runner influence, esp. Graham.

Both are girls, and they haven't started laying yet, so I don't know about the egg thing.

I hope somebody answers your question about integrating adults into your flock because I am getting some more ducks in a couple of months so I'll have the same question!