Silver Appleyard
A variety of the Silver Appleyard
Duck · White eggs · Laying
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About the Silver Appleyard
The silver plumage comes from a restricted mallard gene that limits pigment on the face and body of both sexes. The drake carries a green head stamped with silver eyebrows and throat, claret breast feathers tipped white, and chestnut-edged scapulars; the duck is creamy-white flecked and streaked with fawn and grey-brown. This is the defining colour of Reginald Appleyard's heavy Suffolk dual-purpose duck — a fine white-skinned table bird and a good layer of white eggs, now on the RBST watchlist.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- White
- Eggs per year
- About 220
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Heavy
- Incubation
- 28 days
- Broodiness
- Moderate
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
- Auto-sexing
- Yes
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Scientific name
- Anas platyrhynchos domesticus