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Rubee is a Gray runner Drake, They are the same color as Mallard ducks.
We have pictures of our Gray runners on our website. They look just like your Rubee.
I love the runners, they are so fun to watch.
Sharon
I hate to disagree with you, or hijack this thread, but Rubee is
not a Gray. I get a lot of different opinions about what color he is, and I've had some very knowledgeable people tell me he's a Saxony Runner. But I have been studying up
a lot on my duck color genetics (not to mention that I have two mallards and know the wild-type gray color pattern quite well), and he's an off-colored Buff Runner - just like Sandhill Preservation center, where I got him from, told me.
He's the smutty-colored duckling on the far right of this picture:
And here he is in his juvenile plumage:
That is most definately
not the duckling/juvenile coloration of a gray.
As I understand it, Buff is Dusky color phase with a Brown, Buff, and two Blue dilution genes. Rubee's just expressing far too much blue - hence the steely gray head (note that it's not green) and the blue shading on his wing and bum feathers.
