🦆 Silver Appleyard
Ducks · breed reference
Reginald Appleyard set out in the 1930s to breed 'the ideal duck' — heavy carcass, white skin, and a large white egg in quantity — and this is as close as anyone has come: 200 to 270 eggs off a bird that dresses out at seven pounds. THE ONLY DUCK HERE SOLD IN TWO SIZES: the MINIATURE is a separate bantam bred down from it in the 1980s, a third the weight, same markings — and unlike the standard it can fly. (Appleyard also made the Ixworth chicken, at the same Suffolk farm.)
| Species | Duck |
|---|---|
| Kept for | Both |
| Eggs per year | ~230 |
| First eggs | ~22 weeks |
| Table-ready | ~10 weeks |
| Sizes | Standard · Miniature |
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