Ducklings: Chocolate Runner
Chocolate Runner pair
Chocolate Runner duckling
Description:
Initially bred in Southeast Asia, all Runners have ancestry that dates
back to Java over 2000 years ago. They were mistakenly named “Indian”
Runners when first imported to England in the 1850s because they arrived
on a ship from India; the importing family finally disclosed in 1909,
that these runners were in fact from Southeast Asia.
The first Runners imported into England were Fawn, Fawn-and
White, or White. They were first exhibited in 1877 at the Dumfries Show
in Scotland. Later in 1898, they were admitted into the American
Standard Registry, though the Black, Blue, and Chocolate varieties were
not recognized until 1977.
These Chocolate Runners have chocolate brown plumage, dark brown eyes, a blackish brown bill, and dark brown shanks and feet. They breed true, so if you mate a Chocolate Runner with a
Chocolate Runner, all of the progeny will be Chocolate Runners.
Runner
ducks are hardy because they typically cover hundreds of miles in their
travels over the course of their lifetime, while foraging for seeds,
insects, slugs and other bugs. However, they are light in weight at 3.25-5 lbs, so it
isn't likely that they will trample your garden or yard. Their egg
production is average now as opposed to a century ago, due to extensive
breeding with an emphasis on coloration. They will lay approximately
100-180 large eggs weighing 65-80 grams per year. Runner females will lay either white or light green eggs, with some laying dark gray or even blackish eggs at the beginning of the season.
Our ducks will fully integrate with all the other breeds that we offer.
If you want purebred ducklings hatching from your ducks, make sure you
separate your ducks by breed during the mating season. Or you can let
your ducks cross and see what different shapes and colors you will get
with their ducklings.
Product Features:
* We can ship as few as two baby ducklings or goslings!
* All orders ship via USPS Priority Mail service.
Learn more about our shipping method
* You'll get the best shipping price if you order more than 15 waterfowl babies, due to the special care with which small orders must be packaged. The smallest orders of 2-9 ducklings will double or even triple your shipping rate, whereas small orders of 10-15 will add in the neighborhood of 50% more to your price (depending on your distance from our hatchery).
* Ducklings and goslings have special needs which are different from those of baby chicks. Read more, here
* Breed photos may not be representative of the parent breeding stock. In some cases our photos are of winning exhibition lines of poultry. Unless noted otherwise, we do not source from exhibition lines. |