Like most domestic ducks, the breed was developed from the mallard. Duck lingo drake: male duck hen: female duck Runner duck behavior and facts It does not fly or waddle; its leg position allows it to run.
It can be a variety of colors: black, white, chocolate, blue, fawn, mallard, white and trout. From birth to death Although the Indian runner duck lays a large number of eggs, it does not usually sit on them. Breeders sometimes place eggs under a broody duck to hatch them.
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When she left the nest …. Indian Runners; how do we control egg laying? We love our Runners. Very entertaining, excellent pets. The differences we see now have come about by mutations — random, rare changes in genes from those producing mallard characteristics, which humans have seized upon to breed selectively. In the wild, odd genes would disappear into the mass or the birds carrying them would be easy prey to predators, but in captivity they have been artificially selected for, and not only maintained, but combined in new ways, resulting in the wide range we see today.
So how does it work? Each living thing including ducks has a number of pairs of chromosomes in each cell of its body, carrying thousands of genes — one set from its father and one set from its mother. Since any duck receives one gene for a particular character from each parent it must have two genes for any character.
Different versions of a gene are called alleles. Taking the simplest possible scenario, if these two alleles are the same, called homozygous there is no problem, the alleles will decide the feature and will show in that organism. If they are not the same heterozygous , there are two possibilities.
Often, one allele the dominant one will show itself be expressed and the other recessive will be hidden. For example, the black colour seen in Cayugas , Black East Indians and others is caused by an allele that is dominant over the normal wild-type colour. If we use the letter E to represent the black, and e to represent the recessive wild colour, we can see that a black duck could be either EE or Ee, but a wild colour bird could only be ee.
When these birds go on to breed, the homozygous black EE can only pass on E alleles, the wild type can only pass on one e allele, but the heterozygous can pass on E or e alleles. Thus, it would be quite possible that two black ducks could produce wild-type offspring unless you could be sure they were EE but virtually impossible for two wild-type birds to produce black offspring.
In other situations, one allele is not dominant over the other, so that if the alleles are different heterozygous , the result is a form like neither parent but somewhere between, or different from either. This is called co-dominance. An example of this is blue colour, as in the Blue Swedish , where the blue results from two alleles being different, the homozygous situations giving Black and Splashed White. Thus, it will never be possible to breed pure Blue Swedish, and it actually raises the question about whether this can be considered a true breed at all.
A get-out here is that the inheritance in blue birds is at least predictable! The single gene situation is not the norm — many characteristics are the result of a number of genes acting together, often one gene modifying the effect of another such as dilution genes , so that it is often far harder to see the underlying principles at work. In addition, since there are colour differences between male and female ducks, there is the added complication of sex Iinkage.
Only 22 mutations in domestic ducks have been described so far — there is obviously much more work to do.
I am not proposing to repeat his work here, but to urge duck breeders to think about the mechanisms underlying their breeding programmes, to try applying some basic principles and to share information with others to add to the body of knowledge available. It would be especially useful to keep track of the numbers of different forms obtained from particular pairings. There are two possible issues arising from a lack of regard or understanding of the underlying principles.
Sometimes all colours of Calls , for example, are run together. Offspring are chosen which happen to correspond to show standard criteria for a particular colour for exhibition and sale and a great disservice is being done to that colour.
In all probability the birds will have a number of recessive alleles which are not expressed but will show up in successive generations. In other words, despite appearances, they are cross-bred and will not breed true. Another issue is from random crossing, where a colour of duck appears which is novel and which the breeder likes. It is easy to assume to assume that, by successive breeding and selection, eventually a pure-breeding line can be produced.
It can make sense of what you see happening and certainly adds interest to the breeding side of the hobby. Waterfowl showing is fairly easy — a bird in good condition, is pretty much in show condition.
Cleaning beaks, legs and feet is desirable just before penning. It is much better to provide the opportunity for birds to clean themselves and stay clean rather than try to clean their feathers yourself. Shows are a great place to see the diverse varieties, compare the quality of your bird s and gain customers for your stock. The standards for each breed is published in the British Waterfowl Standards.
You could attend local shows first, though novices are welcome at our Champion Waterfowl Exhibition too. Speak to exhibitors — no question is a silly question, we have all been new once so go ahead and ask away!
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