. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. TYPES AND BREEDS OF DUCKS 447 Laying-type ducks. The egg-type duck is a type developed in Belgium, Holland, and northern France as a common, very hardy duck; it makes rapid growth, especially the first five or six weeks, and is meaty, though small in comparison with those just described ; it is an early layer and very prolific. On the continent these ducks are of all colors. There seems little doubt that they have furnished the foundation stock for the Blue Swedish, the Buff, and the Indian Runner ducks. They still afford material for new
. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. TYPES AND BREEDS OF DUCKS 447 Laying-type ducks. The egg-type duck is a type developed in Belgium, Holland, and northern France as a common, very hardy duck; it makes rapid growth, especially the first five or six weeks, and is meaty, though small in comparison with those just described ; it is an early layer and very prolific. On the continent these ducks are of all colors. There seems little doubt that they have furnished the foundation stock for the Blue Swedish, the Buff, and the Indian Runner ducks. They still afford material for new varieties. The Indian Runner Duck. In England and America the In- dian Runner Duck was intro- duced to the public as a native of India, but in view of the positive testimony 1 on that point it can hardly be doubted that it is simply an improved color type of the ducks from that part of the Continent directly oppo- site the south of England. The peculiar erect carriage is like that of the closely allied domes- tic Penguin duck. Those who attribute this character to a wild ancestral race are evidently not aware that the " wild penguin duck " of early poultry writers and some naturalists was a fiction. In England the continental stock was sometimes crossed with common English ducks. American Standard weights for this variety are drake, 4^ pounds ; duck, 4 pounds. The body is long and narrow, the breast well developed. The standard color is fawn (preferred) or gray and white, in a peculiar pattern, the dark color occurring in patches on the crown and cheeks, and on the back, breast, and fore part of the body like a jacket. As layers they surpass ^ M. Louis Vander Snickt, of Belgium, in CAasse ei Pkhe, in 1900, stated very emphatically that the Indian Runner Duck was identical with the ducks of the same type common in the Netherlands. Against such authority, stories of im- portations from India (coupled with the information that in their alleged native land the race is ve
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