Indian runner how tall

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Their daily diet includes duck pellets and lettuce leaves. Skip to main content. Anas platyrhynchos Indian runner ducks are native to Southeast Asia but have long been domesticated and now exist in many parts of the world. My best quality runners are probably about 20" tall. My poor quality mini-runners are about a foot tall. L to R: Hatchery drake, abnormally small runner from private seller, blue swedish duck.

Best quality adult from Holderread lines:. Amiga Overrun with Runners 11 Years. Jan 3, 23, 2, Southern New England. My tallest runner girl is just under 2' tall, perhaps 22 inches. She weighs five pounds. The rest range in height down to around 19 inches.

They are pretty close. My most slender runners are 3. I made the door to their duck house 2' high, and the house itself is 4' high, which allows for a foot and a half of bedding. I use a form of deep litter. What I find is, with nine runners, that over a foot of shavings absorbs and dries out their poop quite nicely, provided I stir it once every day or two.

It takes months before it needs to be changed out. Many months, in fact. So, with a foot and a half of bedding the runners still have more than half a foot of headroom. The bedding tapers down toward the doorway, like a ramp, so they can walk straight out into their veranda.

I remember asking on this forum a couple of years ago how tall runners are, when I was sizing their duck house and door! What beautiful Runners! I'm hoping to get a black or silver from one of my three.

I paid close attention to the girls tonight when I put them to bed. Duck door is 22" tall. My girls are 22" tall. They bend down to take the small step up and then stand full height when in there and are as tall as the door.

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