*~*Runner Duck Club*~*

[Miss Lydia]

Wait till first tiny molt my blue looked like chocolate when tiny.

 

[Runner duck mom]

I can’t really decide if he/she is blue or chocolate...thoughts?
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Our Chocolate is in the front and Blue in the back if that helps at all. With our blue her feet started to change color pretty early on to a grey with a bit of orange/yellow mixed in. The chocolates feet just stayed dark brown. Whichever color you have she is adorable!

 

[PaulX]

Guys, what are the colors of these 2 runners? Someone told me one's a Saxony runners, and another is either blue fawn or blue trout.

Also, any chance one of these two seemingly white could be a fawn&white? One has an orange bill, one has a dark pink bill.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I have no idea but they are sure beautiful

 

[quackiemama]

I can’t really decide if he/she is blue or chocolate...thoughts?
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Pretty whatever he/she is

 

[CyndiD]

I can’t really decide if he/she is blue or chocolate...thoughts?
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IMO Chocolate

 

[Loopeend]

Next weekend I'm going on a big trip to get an Indian runner duck from Germany :O

It will totally leave a hole in my pocket.. 300 dollars the whole thing will cost :O 1/3th of my monthly income.. 1/2 of monthly rent... yikes.. All my savings gone.

but I'm really excited. There are no more pure-bred Indian runners anymore in the Netherlands (except 1-2 breeders that also are small breeders, and do nót breed the colour I breed). So this can be a big boost for the Indian runner duck in my country!

I hope all goes well. Communication is not easy because the person doesn't speak English, only German, and my German is a bit rusty.. There is a good chance they have a thick accent that I don't understand, so I better take pen a paper with me... if all goes well pictures will soon follow

 

[DuckyDonna]

Next weekend I'm going on a big trip to get an Indian runner duck from Germany :O

It will totally leave a hole in my pocket.. 300 dollars the whole thing will cost :O 1/3th of my monthly income.. 1/2 of monthly rent... yikes.. All my savings gone.

but I'm really excited. There are no more pure-bred Indian runners anymore in the Netherlands (except 1-2 breeders that also are small breeders, and do nót breed the colour I breed). So this can be a big boost for the Indian runner duck in my country!

I hope all goes well. Communication is not easy because the person doesn't speak English, only German, and my German is a bit rusty.. There is a good chance they have a thick accent that I don't understand, so I better take pen a paper with me... if all goes well pictures will soon follow

That is great! I hope you get the duck of your dreams! What color is the new runner going to be?

 

[Loopeend]

That is great! I hope you get the duck of your dreams! What color is the new runner going to be?

Schwarz! Black
I mainly breed black, blue, Silver/splash all unbibbed.
After drastically reducing our flock of half-Indian runner/wild duck or other well, not really good looking runners, the plan now is as following;
- Grey bibbed duck (stayed from flock, absolutely off by standard, way off, but official an Indian runner duck, we have seen the parents and her brothers and sisters and they were definately; she's just.. a bit mallformed. Too fat, too short neck, and an extra eye-fold-thing, and bad bibbing) But she is really intelligent, tame and lays two eggs a day without problems.
- White duck. (stayed from flock, It does not fit in what we want to breed due to her colour. But her pose and such are really good on the 'being Indian runner duck' scale.
- Black unbibbed female high quality. (Comming from Germany)
- Grey unbibbed female high quality (still looking)
- Grey unbibbed drake high quality (still looking).

If the first ones that stayed from the flock are going to breed in the future is still a debate. I think we might try it. A good drake can lift the appereances up; and they have other good qualities that they hopefully give to their offspring. And we don't only want to breed ducks for shows.. we actually don't really want to breed ducks for shows.. we just want to improve the breed. For people that just want Indian runner ducks to look at, for their eggs or how funny they look and how much joy they give etc. and not want to breed them. So a duck with whatever colour/breed faults it better then how the situation is now and móre Indian runner then they are now. Indian runners here are 99% of the time half runner/half wild duck. So a duck thats more then 50% runner is already an achievement.

This is a picture of the so called 'pure bred Indian runner ducks' we have given away. And how most 'Indian runner ducks' look like over here that are sold as 'Pure bred Indian runner ducks'. (the one in the pool). The white one stayed. They don't have to be standing both or swimming both to see a big difference in the neck-area.

 

[CyndiD]

Next weekend I'm going on a big trip to get an Indian runner duck from Germany :O

It will totally leave a hole in my pocket.. 300 dollars the whole thing will cost :O 1/3th of my monthly income.. 1/2 of monthly rent... yikes.. All my savings gone.

but I'm really excited. There are no more pure-bred Indian runners anymore in the Netherlands (except 1-2 breeders that also are small breeders, and do nót breed the colour I breed). So this can be a big boost for the Indian runner duck in my country!

I hope all goes well. Communication is not easy because the person doesn't speak English, only German, and my German is a bit rusty.. There is a good chance they have a thick accent that I don't understand, so I better take pen a paper with me... if all goes well pictures will soon follow

Amazing, Congratulations. make little ducklings and make some money back, maybe. or just enjoy your beautiful ducks. I am happy for you