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Title: Are there any ducks or geese for sale Devon/Somerset?
Post by: Blackdown on June 21, 2013, 10:11:56 pm
Hi
I am looking for Embden Geese, Muscovy ducks, Indian runner ducks and Aylesbury ducks.

Does anyone have any for sale?

I live on the Somerset/Devon border

Many thanks
Title: Re: Are there any ducks or geese for sale Devon/Somerset?
Post by: HesterF on June 21, 2013, 10:26:41 pm
Not me but I got some Aylesbury hatching eggs from Devon so if you have no other responses, I can put you in touch with them. You need to decide Aylesbury utility or Aylesbury exhibition,

H
Title: Re: Are there any ducks or geese for sale Devon/Somerset?
Post by: Blackdown on June 21, 2013, 10:28:33 pm
Sorry, would want utility.

Thanks
Title: Re: Are there any ducks or geese for sale Devon/Somerset?
Post by: HesterF on June 21, 2013, 10:33:05 pm
South Yeo Farm West do the Utlity Aylesburys http://www.southyeofarmwest.co.uk/waterfowl.html (http://www.southyeofarmwest.co.uk/waterfowl.html)

H
Title: Re: Are there any ducks or geese for sale Devon/Somerset?
Post by: graham-j on June 22, 2013, 11:39:19 pm
Hi,maybe its just the pictures but the ducks in the pictures look more like Pekings or Peking crosses to me not Aylesbury

Bellow is a picture of a Peking with an Aylesbury below that.Note the Aylesbury is much deeper in the keel.

Graham.

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQPl-Xzyhc6tXxJdUTbgonw-z1j2-9iWkee9YW0xSXF9pQmdbTa (https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQPl-Xzyhc6tXxJdUTbgonw-z1j2-9iWkee9YW0xSXF9pQmdbTa)

http://www.domestic-waterfowl.co.uk/images/aylesburies/ayl2980.jpg (http://www.domestic-waterfowl.co.uk/images/aylesburies/ayl2980.jpg)
Title: Re: Are there any ducks or geese for sale Devon/Somerset?
Post by: HesterF on June 23, 2013, 09:09:24 am
I guess there's a bit of Pekin in loads of Aylesburys but mine (hatched from here) has the right colored bill for an Aylesbury. I think the really deep keels are associated with exhibition Aylesbury ducks, aren't they?
Title: Re: Are there any ducks or geese for sale Devon/Somerset?
Post by: graham-j on June 23, 2013, 10:16:13 am
Hi,no the deep Keel is associated with an Aylesbury duck,anything less is not an Aylesbury and should not be sold as such.


Graham.