This image is from Colin Dicks website, award winning exhibition ducks in the Scottish Borders.

There are breeders all over the country. Sadly there are very few who are working on utility strains any more. So few are good meaty birds, most are either pets, cute but not productive, or selecting for the exhibition qualities which are very different.

the perfect Aylesbury duck :- from the British Waterfowl Standards book 1999 - includes all ducks and geese; showing scoring; faults; superb paintings of the perfect bird for each breed; BUY THE BOOK few birds will come up to this very high standard.
feature	drake and duck
head	Strong and powerful
carriage	Horizontal, parallel with the ground
neck	Average length, a good even width from head to breast, white
breast	Full and prominent; white
body	long, broad and very deep; white
back	Straight, sloping slightly from shoulders to tail, Keel well defined, straight from breast to stern; white
rump	white
tail	short - only slightly elevated; white
wings	Strong and carried close to the sides, fairly high but not meeting across the back; white
feathers	Bright and glossy - resembling satin
legs, feet and webs	very strong with thick bones, set to balance a level carriage
	Bright orange
bill	Long and broad
	Pink - white (more commonly orangey in commercial stock)
eyes	Full ; set near the top of the skull; Blue

Tim and Jill Bowis
Kintaline Mill Farm, Benderloch, OBAN Argyll PA37 1QS Scotland
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