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Silver
Appleyard
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Egg Colour;
.....................blue ..large
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Egg Numbers
............100 /180
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Country Of
Origin;.........England
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Purpose;..........Eggs..Meat...Broody...a
good utility duck
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Breed Hints.... Kept
as trio or pair
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Weights; 9 to 12
pounds
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****Easily
confused as babies with Abacot's and Harlequin's
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See Reginald Appleyard's
Books
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The Silver Appleyard was developed in
Britain during the 1930s and '40s by Reginald Appleyard,
a well known writer and breeder of domestic waterfowl. He
was trying to produce "The Ideal Duck" for both egg; meat
and exhibition purposes
The drakes are quick to mature and make fine table
fowl. The 7-8 pound duck is an good layer of about
100/180 0large white eggs. The duck is silvery-white with
a heavy flecking of fawn on her back. The 8-9 pound drake
has a beetle green head and neck and his throat is white
with fawn markings. Add to this his silver-white neck
ring, breast, wing coverts, and tail tip and you have a
very handsome bird. Beak should be yellow, legs and feet
orange, and eyes dark hazel.
This breed also appears as Miniature, and as the
Bantam Appleyard
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Large & Miniature in next door pens... colouring the
similar size somewhat larger
Links
http://www.cyborganic.com/People/Feathersite/Poultry/Ducks/Apple/BRKApple.html
SILVER APPLEYARD;LARGE
Ducks;...........Breed
Info'
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Tony & Sue Axon
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DEVON
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Tel 01404 822 459
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Hicks Waterfowl World,
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OSWESTRY
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Tel 01691 655 635
weekends
Tel 07818 036 118
weekdays
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Alan McKee
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ANTRIM
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Tel 028 256 651 284.
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Sandra Watson
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SOMERSET
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Tel 01458 241 719
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