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Donny
Joined: 10 Nov 2008
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Location: Weymouth
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| Thankyou Scottg |
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scottg
Joined: 18 Sep 2008
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Location: Bristol, UK
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| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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No worries Donny!
Just out of interest - What breed of runners do you have, and how old are they? |
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Donny
Joined: 10 Nov 2008
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Location: Weymouth
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 12:19 am Post subject: |
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| Less then a year old and i think they are trout. |
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scottg
Joined: 18 Sep 2008
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Location: Bristol, UK
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 12:30 am Post subject: |
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Nice Donny!
We have a couple of very sweet Trouts - about 22 months old now - lovely birds they are!!
Shy at times, though quite confident when they can look through the french doors to watch the family or the telly!!! |
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rugby-137
Joined: 26 Oct 2008
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Location: Guildford Surrey
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks all for your replies.
Pond is sorted, now i need to get the housing done. Do they need just a flat floor or a box etc for laying, any help would be gratefully received.
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werenotscared
Joined: 26 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:57 pm Post subject: Green Eggs no Ham |
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Hello! I'm brand new to this forum and have sort of accidentally gotten into Indian Runner ducks and am becoming quite interested in learning more and more about these really cool ducks. My question is....
My mother duck lays a nice sized egg with a yellow yolk, but her babies yolks are green. Is it normal to have green yolks? They are all on the same diet, so I am wondering why the babies yolks are green. They taste good, but I'm just curious if that is normal. The mother is not a runner and she is a buff color. The babies are kind of a blue silver like color and are all runners. The dad is a black runner. Thank you in advance for your answers!
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Welsh Duck
Joined: 18 Jul 2007
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Location: Herefordshire/Welsh Border
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 11:47 am Post subject: |
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rugby 137-
I wouldn't worry about nest boxes, ducks rarely use them, they usually lay in the corners of the shed
werenotscared- I haven't heard about different coloured yolks before. Different breeds of ducks lay different coloured eggs, but that is only on shell colour, the contents of the egg is usually the same.
I can only imagine that your young birds are eating something that colours the yolk, perhaps they have more access to greens??? I've kept ducks for 23 yrs and never eaten a duck egg because I use them for hatching so I'm probably not the best person to comment 
Enjoy your ducks, they are great fun to keep, and such characters  |
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foxy
Joined: 02 Jan 2008
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Location: Bristol
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| Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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OK second post this year!!!! so getting brave I love runners and have black, blue, brown and a funny apricot colour. Here a piccy of a black runner I have!
a close up! they are just sooooo cute!
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Welsh Duck
Joined: 18 Jul 2007
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Location: Herefordshire/Welsh Border
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| Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Lovely pics, he looks smart, |
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Donny
Joined: 10 Nov 2008
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Location: Weymouth
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| Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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| jenny wrote: | Can anyone tell me what colour my two girls are?? they're a kind of soft grey (blue?) with white throats, one a lot more so than the other. Although the photos seem to show some brown colour on them, in the flesh you can't see any, just the soft grey.
This one's Harriet:
This one's Harriet (the bigger one) and Pippa:
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Trout, thats what i have |
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