nigel
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Location: Skåne, Sweden
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| leghorn_guy wrote: | | don't you have a standard for your breeds? |
Not in the way that there are in England. It's one of the things I found hard to grasp when I first moved here. For all the landrace breeds [those covered by the SLK] they are not concerned with appearance only with keeping healthy utility stock. The Yellow duck was thought to be extinct in the 1970's but a small flock was found on a farm in Billinge - which is where I live. The actual farm is about 500m away from me, and belongs to one of my neighbours, much of our land shares boundaries. There were I believe around 30 found at Trumpetarbostället where they had been kept since the early 1930's. These formed the nucleus of the Yellow Duck Genebank. All birds bred from these original thirty or so have paperwork from the SLK. There is no standard as such, though I believe that yellow duck is a mistranslation. "Gul" in swedish does mean "yellow" but they also use it to describe the buff orpington for example, so I think that buff duck would be a better translation I doubt it will catch on though.
Don't know if this interests you but in the last census [2006] there were 137 yellow ducks [47male 90female] kept in 24 registered flocks. There were 146 eggs hatched in 2006 [103 naturally 43 incubator]. The average number of eggs per duck per year [since records started in 1993] is 112.81 with an average weight of 79.67g. The average male weighs 3.11kg and female 2.86kg |
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