What color Indian Runners do you have?

[rollyard]

In juvenile plumage he is a dusky. He looks to be light phase & that should be the case in a dusky bird with partial/faint neck ring & claret breast. If a dark phase dusky then he shouldn't show evidence of these traits but I guess there are always exceptions? He also looks to have the lighter blue/grey of a homozygous blue bird, but difficult to tell from pics (light phase dusky + homozygous blue = apricot) & (dark phase dusky + hetero/homo blue = buff/blonde). You could try looking under his wing & if pigmentation is there then dusky he should be, even in the presence of light phase genes (not lih). If the bird has white feather then possibly split for wild-type mallard ie md/M+, but I would think if he had mallard (M+) in him there would be some evidence ie facial marking in juvenile/eclipse plumage, white underwing. He looks like a true dusky to me with hetero/homo blue. Is his head blue or black, hard to tell from a couple of those pics but in all speculum looks blue?

He does look very similar to a pic of a bird I have (Colour Breeding in Domestic Ducks, Ashton, p. 46) that is reported to be a light phase dusky, including reduced/fading bib, although your bird is a little cleaner looking. As CityChicker has said, very difficult to tell due to colour similarity of different birds with differing gene mixes (not to mention variations in those birds that are genetically alike).

But he is a pretty boy

 

[Funky Feathers]

I used to have Crested Runners in Blue, Black, Grey & White. Occasionally a Chocolate hatched out, and sometimes a Blue & White.

 

[kawonu]

I have black ones...six of them right now. They are very green in the sunlight too.

 

[nissa_loves_cats]

Anyone know why Holderread spells it 'Faery Fawn' on his web site and 'Fairy Fawn' in his duck book?

Maybe someone could email Holderread and suggest he put up pics of the Faery Fawn on the web site.... I really wish I could find a breeder of them.... Or a good explanation of the genetics involved in them. I think it would be nice if some one could put up a web site of all the different colors of Indian Runners with good pictures of them both as adults and ducklings so that people could see what the different colors look like.

And by the way those crested runners look like they've got cotton balls superglued to their heads.

 

[Funky Feathers]

HaHa, that's just the way their crests turned out.

 

[Chicken Crazy12]

We currently raise Penciled and white. However this hen popped out of some hatching eggs we bought one time. The lady had trout,white, fawn,fawn and white, chocolate, pastel, and others. So anyways we still have this hen here and she has gray coloring in her wings so I was curiouse as to what some of you others thought she was. I was thinking maybe pastel, but IDK what color she is really. I have her paired off with a white drake to hatch eggs from her. I was thinking that the white color wouldn't mix like some other colors and I would either get her color or his. What do you guys think? Thanks I also posted pics of my penciled and my whites just to show pics of the different colors.

 

[Amiga]

Five black runners, six chocolates

 

[duck walk]

six black and six fawn nd white who are just beginning to feather out...the FWs have some nice markings...will get photos when they get over the teenage uglies and get some "real" feathers...love the little bowling pins...

 

[duckyfromoz]

Mostly Harlequin And Cinnamon Runners with a few others as well for some extra added colour in the back yard.

 

[goldiez]

What could I get from breeding the black female (parents are blue and black) to the trout male?