*~*Runner Duck Club*~*

[NathanZee]

I think they were cornered

I got them good.

Yah you did!

 

[Duck Hill]

The ducklings are beautiful! Post updates... and I want to see them when they feather out!

 

[CyndiD]

This is th first time I am crossing pied to trout since I have not had those colors for a while
However last spring Holderread's sent me a pair of dark brown and whites
I assume that would be the outcome to at least a fraction of the hatchlings

Batman

So, you are saying "Batman" is a f/w & CR cross?
what do you get if you cover a f/w with a Blue Runner? have you tried that one yet?
I have f/w, blue and chocolate ducks and one chocolate and one blue runner drakes. I want to cross them, what will I get?
thanks for your input.

 

[blueducklings]

So, you are saying "Batman" is a f/w & CR cross?
what do you get if you cover a f/w with a Blue Runner? have you tried that one yet?
I have f/w, blue and chocolate ducks and one chocolate and one blue runner drakes. I want to cross them, what will I get?
thanks for your input.

Nope, I do not have a fawn and white, but a penciled.(pied)
Either way a fawn & white would introduce the pied genes to the pool.
So chances are, you will get some very interesting pied colors

You have a box of chocolates! It will be like christmas

I have not crossed my Blue trouts to any other color yet as I want to throw some blue trout X blue trout eggs in the incubator first. They are my latest addition to the flock and are a pair of Holderread's show breeders. So I just want to see...

Good luck.
PS I only have 8 trouts of various colors and one penciled.
They are already giving me a very bad case of hatchititus as it is.

 

[Gone-Quackers]

Nope, I do not have a fawn and white, but a penciled.(pied)
Either way a fawn & white would introduce the pied genes to the pool.
So chances are, you will get some very interesting pied colors

You have a box of chocolates! It will be like christmas

I have not crossed my Blue trouts to any other color yet as I want to throw some blue trout X blue trout eggs in the incubator first. They are my latest addition to the flock and are a pair of Holderread's show breeders. So I just want to see...

Good luck.
PS I only have 8 trouts of various colors and one penciled.
They are already giving me a very bad case of hatchititus as it is.

Awesome! I have fawn/white drakes. . and my hens are fawn/white, chocolate/white, blue/white, lavender/white, mallard, and apricot or buff/white. So what will I get? I am so excited to find out!!!
What do you think I'll get?

 

[blueducklings]

Awesome!  I have fawn/white drakes. . and my hens are fawn/white, chocolate/white, blue/white, lavender/white, mallard, and apricot or buff/white.  So what will I get?  I am so excited to find out!!!
What do you think I'll get?

I mixed a chocolate and white with some of my trout colored girls and got a penciled a trout a white a silverfish harlequin but most of them I sold
There are some very pretty rainbow trouts out there

 

[Duck Hill]

Ohhh I fear I have hatchitis too! I put ten eggs in the incubators. Five are showing signs of life.

I crossed a trout female with extra white (my avatar) with a blue trout male. Of six or so eggs from that mating, only one is showing some signs of life. There is a small duckling spot, smaller than those of the other four eggs that are growing, but at least it's there. Two eggs showed mild signs that petered out (traces of blood vessels but never a "baby duck spot", and three are as clean as the day they were laid. That boy isn't very smart about mating and misses half the time. Even when he appears to connect, it often doesn't turn into babies in the eggs. But I really need his genes... If that one egg doesn't work out (or if it was made by someone else sneaking in), well, next time I'm going to put the duck and drake together and collect 20 eggs or more, so maybe I'll have two or three ducklings maybe, hopefully, I dream.

Of four or so eggs with the same duck and a penciled male, all four are showing strong signs of life. So it's definitely not her problem.

At least I'll have some babies! Can't wait to see their color. This is a sex-linked mating so all girls will be brown and all boys will be dark.

 

[Gone-Quackers]

Important question for all you geniuses out there. I have 1 Pekin hen, 2 fawn/white runner drakes, runner hens in the following colors: fawn/white, chocolate/white, lavender/white, blue/white, apricot/white, and mallard.
So, the question is: how do I tell which ducklings are from the darn Pekin?

Mrs. Pekin isn't my duck and I don't wish to keep any of her ducklings. I'll be selling them off and/or sending them with Mrs. Pekin back to her owner in the spring. Will there be a difference in color, patterning, or something to help me make the distinction at hatching time? Would like to clear out the Pekin/runner crosses while they are still cute/fluffy.

 

[PotatoWaffles]

Important question for all you geniuses out there.  I have 1 Pekin hen, 2 fawn/white runner drakes, runner hens in the following colors: fawn/white, chocolate/white, lavender/white, blue/white, apricot/white, and mallard. 
So, the question is: how do I tell which ducklings are from the darn Pekin? 
Mrs. Pekin isn't my duck and I don't wish to keep any of her ducklings.  I'll be selling them off and/or sending them with Mrs. Pekin back to her owner in the spring.  Will there be a difference in color, patterning, or something to help me make the distinction at hatching time?  Would like to clear out the Pekin/runner crosses while they are still cute/fluffy.   

A couple ideas come to mind, though none of them are very good lol. If you want to be 100% certain the pekin mutts are separated, you could try separating the pekin at night and collecting and keeping her eggs separate from the runners. This could be a lot of work though, so it depends how important it is to you to know which baby came from the pekin.

You could also use egg shape and color to help determine which egg came from who. Pekins lay white eggs, roundish eggs. Runners generally lay skinnier eggs (well, mine do). Fawn/white runners usually lay white eggs, but other colors like black and blue and chocolate often lay blueish-green eggs. It's pretty safe to assume that any colored eggs are not from the pekin.

If all of your ducks are runners except the pekin, it's also pretty safe to assume any hatchling that is noticeably larger than the others is from the pekin. Runner ducklings are more slender and stand up straighter. So a duckling that is more horizontal to the ground may also be from the pekin. I can't tell you anything about using colors to distinguish the pekin mutts. I have no idea lol.

However, short of separating the pekin, I'm thinking there's always going to be a degree of uncertainly whether the pedigree of the ducklings you hatch while housing the pekin mama. All that aside, mutt ducks are awesome!

 

[Duck Hill]

It depends on what is hidden under the white of your Pekin. But if it's a solid color... I notice that most of your runners are /and white. When crossing /and white (Runner gene) with /and white, the babies will show the full white Runner markings on the solid background color. The babies from your mallard and, probably your Pekin, will have less or no white, because they will have at most one /and white Runner gene. This is an uncertain way to tell, as you will be selling the babies from the mallard also, but if you add this to the suggestions above it gives you a bit more information to select out the ducklings you don't want.

Personally, when I choose to keep eggs for hatching, I segregate the hens at night to make sure I get the right eggs. The rest of the time, I put all my hens together and eat the eggs.