Silver Appleyard Miniature

Silver Appleyard Miniature
Conservation statusFAO (2007): endangered[1]: 124 
Other names
  • Appleyard Bantam
  • Miniature Silver Appleyard
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Usedual-purpose
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    1.4 kg[2]: 448 
  • Female:
    1.2 kg[2]: 448 
Classification
APAno[3]
EElisted, not recognised[4]
PCGBbantam and Call ducks[5][6]

The Silver Appleyard Miniature is a British breed of duck.[7][8] It was bred in the 1980s and was recognised by the Poultry Club of Great Britain as a separate breed in 1997. Like the majority of breeds of domestic duck, it derives from the wild species Anas platyrhynchos.

It may also be known as the Appleyard Bantam or Miniature Silver Appleyard.[9] It is a distinct and separate breed from the Silver Appleyard Bantam bred by Reginald Appleyard in the 1940s and later renamed the Silver Bantam.

History

The Silver Appleyard Miniature was bred from the Silver Appleyard in the 1980s, principally by Tom Bartlett of Folly Farm.[5][10] It was first shown at the inaugural Championship Waterfowl Exhibition held by the British Waterfowl Association in 1987 and was recognised by the Poultry Club of Great Britain as a separate breed in 1997.[2]: 450  It is about a third of the size of the large bird, and so is not small enough to be termed a bantam.[2]: 450 [5][11]

Reginald Appleyard bred a Silver Appleyard Bantam in the 1940s by cross-breeding Khaki Campbell ducks and Call drakes; this did not have the same genetic origin as the large bird – it resembles the Abacot Ranger much more than it does the Silver Appleyard – and was renamed the Silver Bantam when Bartlett's Miniature was recognised.[9]: 64 [5][12][13].

Characteristics

The Silver Appleyard Miniature differs from the large Silver Appleyard in size only, and closely resembles it in shape and colour.[2]: 450  It is thus a compact duck, with a broad and rounded body carried at some 20° to the horizontal.[2]: 447  The bill is broad and of medium length; it is yellow with a dark bean, somewhat more greenish in the drake than in the duck. The legs are yellow, the eyes hazel.[2]: 447  The plumage is closely similar to that of the Rouen Clair, but with pigmentation of the head and body reduced by the action of the restricted mallard gene.[2]: 447 

Average body weights are about 1.2 kg for ducks and 1.4 kg for drakes.[2]: 450 

References

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  1. ↑ Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2007). List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources, annex to: The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Archived 23 June 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Victoria Roberts (2008). British poultry standards: complete specifications and judging points of all standardized breeds and varieties of poultry as compiled by the specialist breed clubs and recognised by the Poultry Club of Great Britain. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 9781405156424.
  3. ↑ APA Recognized Breeds and Varieties: As of January 1, 2012. American Poultry Association. Archived 4 November 2017.
  4. ↑ Liste des races et variétés homologuée dans les pays EE (28.04.2013). Entente Européenne d’Aviculture et de Cuniculture. Archived 16 June 2013.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Breed Classification. Poultry Club of Great Britain. Archived 12 June 2018.
  6. ↑ Breed Gallery: Ducks. Poultry Club of Great Britain. Archived 9 November 2018.
  7. ↑ Breed Data Sheet: Appleyard Bantam / United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Duck (domestic)). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed March 2017.
  8. ↑ Domestic ducks. British Waterfowl Association. Archived 17 April 2026.
  9. 1 2 Dave Holderread (2011). Storey's Guide to Raising Ducks, second edition. North Adams, Massachusetts: Storey Publishing. ISBN 9781603427456.
  10. ↑ Silver Appleyard. Rare Breeds Survival Trust. Accessed March 2017.
  11. ↑ Breed data sheet: Appleyard Bantam/United Kingdom. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed March 2017.
  12. ↑ Breed data sheet: Silver Bantam/United Kingdom. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed March 2017.
  13. ↑ Chris Ashton, Mike Ashton (2001). The Domestic Duck. Ramsbury, Marlborough: The Crowood Press. ISBN 9781847979704.
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