3/25/2023 0 Comments Indian runner ducks![]() ![]() Soon they will be big and strong enough to join Dixie and Daisy outside. Thank you Metzer Customer Service for providing valuable information to get Daffy, Desi and Dottie off to a good start. The two female ducklings are strong and don't seem to have any issues but I have ordered some brewers yeast to add to their feed to provide the additional B3 support that Daffy seems to need. We immediately returned the ducklings to the brooder, under the heat lamp after the call and lo and behold, Daffy is walking just fine. But she also informed me, niacin deficiency could cause Daffy to stop walking and that it was probably too soon to have the ducklings out of the brooder. We verified the 20% protein in the Purina Flock Raiser was good. She suggested possible nutritional imbalance. I called customer service and was lucky to speak with someone who was able to provide me with information to get little Daffy walking again. There was no incident to have caused and injury. The little male chocolate runner, for some unknow reason stopped walking. Being in Florida with very warm weather, we took them outside for some supervised time to learn to be ducks. She is a welcomed addition to our already existing flock of two white and fawn runners. When the order arrived, two days after shipping, I found an additional blue runner. I ordered a male and female chocolate runners. ![]() Very knowledgeable, helpful customer service Our chocolate runners are perfect and lay beautiful teal eggs! What a nice surprise! Ĭustomer Reviews of Chocolate Runner Ducks 5.0Įxcelent duck- small, graceful, prettiest bird in the flock and great layer. For more information on producing the blue color in poultry and our breeding program, see our page on Blue Swedish Ducks. The other pen has Silver males on Black females. One pen has Black Runner males on Silver females. So that we produce 100% Blue colored birds, we have two pens of breeders. Though the Black and Chocolate breed true, the Blue do not as only 50% of their progeny are Blue. The Black, Blue and Chocolate were not admitted until 1977. In 1898 they were admitted into the American Standard Registry. The first records of them being in an exhibition were in 1877 at the Dumfries Show in Scotland. The first Runners imported into England were either Fawn, Fawn-and-White, or White in color. Prior to the turn of the century there were many egg trials in England where representatives of different breeds and farmers were put on a common site and their egg production monitored and compared. Until the Khaki Campbell was bred, Runners were by far the most productive egg laying ducks. But by then the name had stuck and the breed was extremely popular throughout the country. It wasn't until 1909 that the importing family acknowledged that they came from Southeast Asia - not India. Why are they called Indian Runners? Tradition has it the ducks were first imported into England in the 1850's and were named Indians as the ship had proceeded from India and had traded with the "Indies". Due to the emphasis in coloration over the past 80 years in the breeding programs in England and the United States, the Runners no longer excel at egg production. Not only do they replace the typical chicken egg but duck eggs are made into two unique products, the balut (a partially incubated duck egg) and the salted egg (fresh eggs put in a salt solution or salt mud until the salt has permeated the entire egg). Because of the high egg production of the native ducks, there are many duck eggs used in Southeast Asia. As they are light in weight, there is also less chance of them trampling the vegetation in your garden or yard. ![]()
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