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Runner

1. See: Book runner.

2. See: Running broker.

3. See: Front runner.

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A border collie herds a group of Indian Runner ducks as part of Meirion Owen's Quack Pack at Fordhall Organic Farm

Ducking and diving at marvellous show

Indian Runner ducks are excellent foragers and can lay 200 or more eggs per duck per year.

Homestead helpers: sheep, cattle, pigs and poultry: livestock aren't just useful for meat and eggs. They can mow lawns, work garden soil, dig stumps and more!

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'' ...

OLLIE'S COCK OF THE NORTH; SPORT CONFIDENTIAL

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.

Decorate your homestead with beautiful birds!

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.

A Marvelous Mayhem: old and new lifestyles blend together as a family gradually transitions from an urban lifestyle to a more self-sufficient rural one, living and learning as they go. The process melds one era into another, with past and present interacting as modern technology serves much older practices

Wood's final cost-cutting effort was to replace his hens with Indian Runner ducks, according to Mr.

Moderate life was also frugal

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.

Dwi'n josgin ac yn falch o fod yn un

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.

DEVONLY PURSUITS; Go West to sample best of the British countryside

Some of the animals include Pygora goats, gold-laced Wyandotte chickens, Indian runner ducks and hedgehogs.

It's a zoo with teens in charge

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.

Venetian finds... THERE IS A WHOLE DIFFERENT PACE TO FOLLOW WHEN IT COMES TO FOOD FROM VENICE, AS ELLA WALKER DISCOVERS

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.

Great displays and serious issues; ROYALWELSHSHOW

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.