Indian Runner duck

Indian Runner
Country of originIndonesia
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    1.6–2.3 kg (3.5–5.1 lb)
  • Female:
    1.4–2.0 kg (3.1–4.4 lb)
Skin colorPink
Egg colorGreenish blue
Comb typeNone
Classification
PCGBlight[1]
  • Duck
  • Anas platyrhynchos domesticus

Indian Runners are a breed of Anas platyrhynchos domesticus, the domestic duck. They stand erect like penguins and, rather than waddling, they run. The females can lay as many as 300 to 350 eggs a year. They were bred on the Indonesian islands of Lombok, Java and Bali. These ducks do not fly and only rarely form nests and incubate their own eggs. They run or walk, often dropping their eggs wherever they happen to be. The breed arrived in the Western world in the 19th century; they have since been bred to have a wide variety of colours.

  1. ^ Breed Classification. Poultry Club of Great Britain. Archived 12 June 2018.