Appleyards and/or Anconas?

[duckyfromoz]

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I have recently read about an import syndicate of chickens that has so far taken something like 8 years to organise. There is NO importation of adult birds allowed- and so eggs will be shipped to Australia from birds from a farm that has undergone years of testing. The eggs will be incubated in quarantine- and grown for something around 6 months from memory before they will be released. Sadly - but for very good reason our quarantine laws are so very strict here in Australia. I will track down the information for you if you like Sore Thumb Suburbanite

 

[exop]

The difficulty of importation to Australia is one of the things that gives me hope the Ancona ducks may date from "the bad old days" when the breed was newly developed, before Australian biosecurity tightened up!

 

[NYRIR]

So what breeds of duck are available there?

 

[Birdcrazy]

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Wow thank you!!

NYRIR - thanks heaps for your info they sounds great! Maybe I should try both breeds. I live in a pretty isolated town, a nine hour drive from Perth, I've only ever seen muscovies and khaki campbells, and the occasional bunch of runner ducks. There are a few mallards down our local pond and tonnes of wild native birds at our lakes. Another breed avaliable is pretty exciting!

I've actually come across a small hatchery in perth (our capital city and we visit it pretty often due to sports etc) I'm going there to perth pretty soon and was thinking of dropping into the hatchery if I can. The hatchery have advertised call ducks, appleyards, anconas, muscovy and khaki campbell - I'll try do some research!
This is the first hatchery I've heard of in WA, their photos of anconas looked very similar to yours NYRIR, maybe they imported eggs??

 

[Birdcrazy]

The website says the anconas will be available in 2012, and they've added a few other breeds into it since I've last checked it all out

www.poultryandbirdswesternaustralia.com

Duckyfromoz - being available in 2012 perhaps means they're going through that quarantine?

 

[NYRIR]

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Wow thank you!!

NYRIR - thanks heaps for your info they sounds great! Maybe I should try both breeds. I live in a pretty isolated town, a nine hour drive from Perth, I've only ever seen muscovies and khaki campbells, and the occasional bunch of runner ducks. There are a few mallards down our local pond and tonnes of wild native birds at our lakes. Another breed avaliable is pretty exciting!

I've actually come across a small hatchery in perth (our capital city and we visit it pretty often due to sports etc) I'm going there to perth pretty soon and was thinking of dropping into the hatchery if I can. The hatchery have advertised call ducks, appleyards, anconas, muscovy and khaki campbell - I'll try do some research!
This is the first hatchery I've heard of in WA, their photos of anconas looked very similar to yours NYRIR, maybe they imported eggs??

Oh I'm so happy for you!!

They are beautiful ducks As for impoting eggs? No idea but I'm so glad you can get some too

 

[Birdcrazy]

Thanks!

It'll be awesome to get some variation of ducks around here too - the poultry club here is actually pretty strong in my town, loads of people have all sorts of chickens and exotic breeds of chickens, but I'm a duck person haha

 

[NYRIR]

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lol...well I'm a Duck/chicken/turkey/geese person! Not necessarily in that order!

 

[exop]

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I'm not sure I understand this. If the ducks have been "bred from scratch", meaning, starting with other duck breeds and ultimately coming to resemble Anconas... then they are not Anconas, but Ancona lookalikes. In the same way, if you crossed an English person with a Spanish person and created a blue-eyed blond, that does not mean you have produced a Swedish person from your cross.

Best - exop