*~*Runner Duck Club*~*

[generaldsherman]

Tub time can help, staying away from the girls can help sometimes (I know that can be difficult).

Tried that; after the 3rd concoction of a "sick" pen failed, I gave up and put him back with the others. Thanks for the tub tip. Will try letting him swim in the bathtub for a while. Hope he's not irredeemable for breeding; he's my favorite drake because of his coloring.

 

[LeannS]

f You Don’t Use It You Lose It–Ducks Engineer Their Own Phallus Relative To Their Social Surroundings

It’s been a while since I have added any duck stories so here’s a good one. We

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know now why ducks are not used in lab tests as if they don’t competition, that is the drake around, they don’t grow a very big penis. I have never really given much thought to a well endowed duck, but according to this study they exist and peer pressure does it for them, up to 15 to 255 with size growing to over 9 inches for some breeds of ducks. We will be laughing about that last statement for a while.
Ducks grow their own organs to delivery sperm and when the season is gone so is the organ and it doesn’t grow back until the next season. Rabbits on the other hand don’t deal with this issue and thus so scientists have been able to grow and transplant a rabbit penis and it worked. You can read more about that at the link below as they hope in time to move this on to help humans with issues in that area.
Regenerative Medicine News – Fully Functional Rabbit Penis Created That Works

Being my last name is Duck I have this unfaltering desire to occasionally break the routine a bit and talk about some ducks! As the video says below, everyone should have a duck in their life and maybe we wouldn’t all be so mad with each other, the duck in the truck! More on the duck phallus after the break. BD

A drake’s penis substantially wastes away at the end of one breeding season and then regrows as the next season begins. Among lesser scaup and ruddy ducks, the regrowth varies in length or timing depending on whether males have to compete with a bunch of other guys, said Patricia Brennan of Yale University.
In many bird species, males don’t grow specialized organs to deliver sperm. Ducks typically do, their penises sometimes reaching considerable lengths (9.8 inches for a ruddy duck, more than half its body length). That extra length may give a male a competitive advantage in delivering sperm when females have multiple mates. Brennan’s past research has documented strong sexual conflict in ducks, with males forcing copulation and females employing strategies such as corkscrew-shaped vaginas, developed over the course of duck evolution, that apparently thwart male control of reproduction.

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Among the scaup, males competing in groups grew penises 15 percent longer, and sometimes up to 25 percent longer, than drakes with no mating rivals, Brennan reported.
In the competitive groups, a few big males grew prodigious organs as if dominating the group. Other males grew more moderate penises, which started wasting away weeks earlier than those of dominant males or males with no competition.
Thus, Brennan said, male ducks are “prudent.” In a crowd, a ho-hum male apparently doesn’t bother sustaining a big investment in tissue that’s not going to pay off.
Duck Penis Length Depends on Other Guys | Wired Science | Wired.com​

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Monday, August 02, 2010

 

[chickengirl72]

any tricks for identifying which ducks are laying? i had extra eggs in the coop today, so my new runners that we hatched this spring are laying. we have a few too many ducks right now and i need to rehome some, but i'd like to keep the early layers if i can figure out who they are!

 

[Amiga]

Might try dabbing some food coloring on a few vents.

 

[apricotvalleywf]

Measure the distance between their hips, its a very accurate indicator.

 

[Amiga]

Measure the distance between their hips, its a very accurate indicator.

Measure how, and what should the distance be, and is that distance the same for all breeds?

 

[apricotvalleywf]

The distance varies by the breed. It would be using 1 known layer as a guide and then averaging out afterwards.

John has a very good write up, I am going to find it right now..

http://metzerfarms.blogspot.ca/2011/03/how-do-i-know-which-of-my-ducks-are.html

 

[ChristopherMic]

Can i join? I have a Runner Duck and i've had him for 6 years. He is one of the best ducks. And hes been there all my life. When he was little we thought he was a pekin duck because thats what we originally got but they mixed it up and we got 6 pekin ducks and 1 runner duck,and we actually named him Runner because he used to run around my house all the time!

 

[LaPoulet]

Can i join? I have a Runner Duck and i've had him for 6 years. He is one of the best ducks. And hes been there all my life. When he was little we thought he was a pekin duck because thats what we originally got but they mixed it up and we got 6 pekin ducks and 1 runner duck,and we actually named him Runner because he used to run around my house all the time!

Hi Christophermic.

Welcome to the runner duck club. It seems that with summer being here, we're a little quiet these days. Feel free to post pics of all of your ducks. I have runners and blue Swedish.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Can i join? I have a Runner Duck and i've had him for 6 years. He is one of the best ducks. And hes been there all my life. When he was little we thought he was a pekin duck because thats what we originally got but they mixed it up and we got 6 pekin ducks and 1 runner duck,and we actually named him Runner because he used to run around my house all the time!

Welcome!! I love Runners I have 10 plus Muscovy's and Buff. Love to see to Runner and your other ducks.