Trout runner colours

[Kizma]

Hi there.
I hatched my first runner ducks from eggs bought online. They are trout colour and I have been reading about blue colour variations and apricots but haven't got my head around the colour genetics yet.
Here is a picture of the parent ducks. ..

And here are our ducks at 4 weeks old. There was other eggs hatched from another seller so we also have 3 black and 1 lavender (?). Sorry for the poor photo, they had already gone to bed when I decided to post...

I know it's not the best picture but can anyone tell if they are normal trout or blue? There are some photos below of them when they were younger, I can get better ones tomorrow of them outdoors. ..

 

[Kizma]

Sorry, for some reason my phone won't let me upload the other images. I'll get better ones of them outside in the morning.

 

[Kizma]

Here are a few more pictures

 

[Kizma]

And here are some photos of them when they were younger...

 

[shortgrass]

They look like a cross with a Mallard.... The parents anyway... I'm attempting to get some that look like the parents from my mallards and Runners.... I wonder if the next gen would look like yours..

 

[buff goose guy]

they look like pure runners to me they would be a bit more stocky or smaller if mixed with a mallard and definetly not be able to stand in 100% perfect runner position like yours.

 

[blueducklings]

Hi Kizma,
You have some beautiful trout runners. They are not mixed. You can tell the mixed ones. Those will never stand totally straight like a wine bottle. The better quality ones have a straight line from the head to the tail and you have that

The trouts with the blue or brown dilution are cool. Like a lighter shade of trout with the same patterns.

If you want to read more about runner colours, I recomend : "Colour Breeding in Domestic Ducks" - Mike & Chris Ashton
It has some nice pictures of trout runners.

I am still learning as well, and found that book so valuable.

Good luck.

 

[blueducklings]

My blue trout runners have arrived from the holderreads

 

[blueducklings]

Here they are in quarantine

 

[blueducklings]

Here are some of the other trout babies

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