*~*Runner Duck Club*~*

[Duck Hill]

Silver, as in your picture, is supposed to be Black (one or two genes) + Blue + Blue (two blue genes). The blue gene is the gene that makes them lighter, not actually blue colored. A single Blue gene is suppose to give "Blue" colored ducks (grey), with the double Blue giving Silver colored ducks (very light grey).

 

[Duck Hill]

In back is NOT a black duckling. In front is NOT a white duckling.

The dark one is a dusky runner girl. The front one is a harlequin colored half-runner girl. Don't you just love duck colors?

 

[Miss Lydia]

I love their color and them. Your babies are precious @Duck Hill

 

[Pekin747]

What would happen if I crossed my champion trout duck with a black drake

 

[Miss Lydia]

@Pyxis? Isn’t black a dominate gene? @DuckyDonna do you remember?

 

[Pekin747]

 

[Miss Lydia]

Gorgeous Runners. Congrats if they are yours!

 

[Stella Blue Runner]

Hi everyone. I will be using my runners to munch on insects in my garden, greenhouse and composting area. Also will be selling the eggs or giving them in CSA`s. I plan on starting with 1 drake and 3 or 4 hens. I will not be showing them, but I am interested in genetics/colors. My question is mostly about drake color genetics. I was all set to start with a fawn and white drake, fawn and white hen, Cumberland blue hen, chocolate hen, and a black hen.
I figured since the fawn and white was the oldest genetic that would be the drake to get. But I've read that fawn and white isn't a good drake because it limits certain colors in offspring? I've also read that a blue drake will give me a pretty pure offspring with other colors.
So now I think I'm set on a Cumberland Blue drake, and 1 hen each of fawn and white, black, chocolate and blue. Will this combination work? Will I be limited? What's your favorite drake. And if I did get a blue drake, what color hen would make a grey duckling (mallard head in males)? And with a blue drake, is trout color possible? Thanks!

 

[Miss Lydia]

My Runner eggs came from Blue chocolate and Silver Runners I believe her drakes were blue and chocolate out my eggs I got 4 blue 1 silver, 4 black and 1 dusky blue and she had no blk or dusky blue Runners

 

[Pyxis]

@Pyxis? Isn’t black a dominate gene? @DuckyDonna do you remember?

Yes, extended black is dominant over wildtype base

What would happen if I crossed my champion trout duck with a black drake

Is trout in runners the kind where they're jut light phase mallard, or is it the trout that is light phase mallard and also chocolate? Yours to me in that picture looks like it's just light phase and not chocolate, but I wanted to ask to be sure.

Either way, what you will end up with is all black bibbed ducklings that are split to light phase mallard and also split to dusky; if it's the kind with chocolate then the male babies would be also be split to chocolate, but the females would not.