A border collie herds a group of Indian
Runner ducks as part of Meirion Owen's Quack Pack at Fordhall Organic Farm
Indian
Runner ducks are excellent foragers and can lay 200 or more eggs per duck per year.
Holloway's 'farm' includes two Indian
Runner ducks, three horses, seven turkeys, a Parson Jack Russell terrier called Milo, a poodle named Teddy he describes as ''tangerine coloured'' ...
Runner ducks are often described as "wine bottles with legs." With supportive diet, they lay as many eggs as chickens, and come in many colors.
Whether the windmill we are about to construct will actually generate enough electricity remains to be seen, as are the exact color patterns that will emerge by breeding our white
runner ducks to the rest of the flock.
Wood's final cost-cutting effort was to replace his hens with Indian
Runner ducks, according to Mr.
Gan fod Edward yn dod o stoc arbennig o dda - teulu Caerberllan, Tywyn (sy'n enwog am wartheg duon a cheffylau gwedd) ar un ochr, a theulu Aber, Trawsfynydd (ei daid, Evan Jones ydi Cadeirydd Cymdeithas Gwartheg Duon Cymreig ar hyn o bryd), roedd o'n gallu siarad yn gall am bob dim o Belgian Blues i Indian
runner ducks.
Only four-and-a-half miles from the nearest beach, the hotel is surrounded by working farms and has 50 of its own hens, geese, Indian
runner ducks and bantams, as well as an aviary with budgies and canaries.
Some of the animals include Pygora goats, gold-laced Wyandotte chickens, Indian
runner ducks and hedgehogs.
Norman's "I've got this fantasy of continuing to work in London, but to live in a rural setting with a kitchen garden, maybe some chickens or some India
runner ducks, and my own leeks, courgettes, corn and radicchio," he muses.
For four days the famous showground at Llanelwedd will be packed with activity, from the livestock displays to the shearing competitions, and from an RAF parachute display team to border collies chasing Indian
runner ducks.
The 18th Preston Park Garden Show takes place this weekend and racing will take place on all three days with the plucky little porkers going over mini National Hunt jumps while - as their name suggests - the
runner ducks will be sticking firmly to the flat.