These guys are getting big!

[neverbdone]

Very cute. Makes me want runners.

 

[ZoeS95423]

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Pshhh its Only like 12 hours

I wish I could come all the way out there and get a duck back here safely.

 

[gofasterstripe]

They have turned out beautiful. I ordered 4 of the emery penciled from Holderreads this year and they are just starting to feather out now. I htink the colouring on them are really pretty.

 

[Josh45640]

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I do too. These are my first runners and I really dont know much about the breed. From all of the pictures and information that I could find thorugh google (which wasnt much) the male pencilled will look like mine and the females will have brown markings on their heads. Are my assumptions correct?

 

[poultrycrazy]

Your ducks are very beautiful! I love indian runners, i have a brown hen and she has such a great personality and lays a HUGE green egg every day

And those three looks like girls but it might be to early to tell

 

[gofasterstripe]

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I do too. These are my first runners and I really dont know much about the breed. From all of the pictures and information that I could find thorugh google (which wasnt much) the male pencilled will look like mine and the females will have brown markings on their heads. Are my assumptions correct?

No your not correct. You dont have Penciled Runners, you have Emery Penciled Runners. They are 2 completely different colours, you might want to google. The penciled is a plain brown with white body with a dark head. the emery penciled is what you have. So no, your ducks can not be sexed by their colour.

 

[Josh45640]

Well then, I feel a lot better now!

 

[gofasterstripe]

Buuut!!!! You might still have 2 drakes, Im not saying you have, but you could

The boys will have like a high pitched whistle when they are babies that turn into a raspy noise, the girls will quack.

 

[Josh45640]

I did the "quack" test on them today. They are all three very attached to eachother and never get within a few feet away from eachother, let alone out of site. So I took each one, one at a time, and walked around the house with it so that it was seperated from the other two. It didnt take long for them to get anxious and start "hollarin'". If the quack theory is a good judgement, then I seem to have two hens and a drake! I hope this is true because that is a perfect trio for me!

The white one and one of the pencilled ones quacked non stop when I seperated them. THe other pencilled didnt make much noise at all and when he did, it was a raspy wheazy pathetic excuse for bad imitation of something that sounded close to something that would almost sound like a quack....lol

So I banded the suspected drake so I can see if I was right when they develop the drake feathers, which Im assuming that all runner drakes do?

 

[gofasterstripe]

Lets hope that what you have...that would be brilliant if you did have 2 and a drake. PERFECT!!

Hers 2 of mine with 3 of the goslings