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Spring
Newsletter, March 2008
Editorial, Chairman's report, Secretary' report,
Correspondence (interesting questions on management)
Looking after laying ducks
Is lettuce good for ducks? (find out the truth!)
Flock Size
Show Reports Stafford and Peebles,
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Year Book, December 2007
Editorial:
Mike Ashton
Chairman's report: Julian Burrell
AGM
Avian Influenza: Housing flocks in Germany - Helene Towers
An Indian Duck?
The wrong pen?
Jurassic Start
Breeders Directory
Letters :USA - Dusky colours;
Australia - Runner condition and diet;
Germany - Duck
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Summer
Newsletter, July 2007
(Click
image for pdf of this sample copy [2.8 mg])
Editorial:
Mike Ashton
Chairman's report: Julian Burrell
Members' letters
Showing in France: Colin Brierley
Swimming Fox
Hybrid Vigour: Mike Ashton
Duck-breeding in Borneo
1907 IRDC Standard
Duck Armada
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Spring
Newsletter, March 2007
Editorial:
Mike Ashton
Chairman's report: Julian Burrell
Update on UK AI policy: Chris Ashton
Members' letters
Hatching Waterfowl Eggs
Duck Diaries: Helene Towers
One Hundred years on (Life on Mars) - How the Club developed in 1907
Duck Shows - How to find them
Domestic Waterfowl Shows 2006 - results
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State of the Art in 1906 |
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Chocolate Runners
Standard Colours
Note on sex-linked down colour in ducks
Judging Notes - fawn & white Runners
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Vaccination in
Holland
Farm Animal Genetic resources
Tina
Pool Construction
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Charlie's
Runners
Runner Reflections
Bronze Runners
Out Foxed
Keeping Ducks in Suburbia
Feathers Fly in duck row |
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Indian Runner Collectables
Mallard Indian Runners
Runner Drake Colours
The Indian Runner Duck by Matthew Smith, 1922
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Year book 2004
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German Runner
Standards
Feeding ducklings and avoiding problems
The Beast of Bodmin
Le Coureur Indien |
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Breeding season eye problems
Domestic Fowl in Mosaic Art
Incubation for beginners
The Odd Couple
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Sinsheim, Germany
How can one give an adequate idea to
someone who has not been to one of these big European shows? Well, if
you think of the Federation Show at Stafford or the Poultry Club Show at
Stoneleigh, imagine something roughly five times bigger. It combines
pigeons, ducks, geese, guinea fowl, turkeys and chickens with pens of
wild fowl. All the cages are clean, . . .
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Ponds
The dominating feature of our garden is a 25’ diameter pond which we
excavated just after we moved in. Our house adjoins some old gravel
pits, now a private lake with a wonderful range of wildlife and rare
wildfowl. The original purpose of the pond was to lure wildlife into the
garden, a plan that met with rapid success. Before long dragonflies,
grass snakes and kingfishers were taking a dip freely within view of the
back door. And then came the ducks! Although I didn’t design the pond
with them in mind, I found I had created quite a good duck pond, one
which seems to have stood up to their attempts to destroy it fairly
well. However a number of our neighbours have given up on duck-keeping
because they wrecked the garden pond, so it’s worth considering some
of the problems. . . .
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Avian
influenza in the Netherlands 2003
Light Duck breeds
Early Runners in Europe
Silkies as broodies |
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Trout Indian
Runners
Model Awards |
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Egg production
Julian Burrell’s article called “Producing Layers from Show
Strains” (IRDA Newsletter, Spring 2001) hits, as I see it, the nail on
the head. Nowadays hardly a subject concerning Indian Runners is
worthier of notice. He stated: “Many people each year buy Indian
Runners, expecting them to lay a large number of eggs only to be
disappointed.” And he rightly continued: “The problem is over
breeding for exhibition”. Admittedly, some Runner-enthusiasts could be
taken aback by such an assessment of their ducks’ reputation. However,
let me show you that J. Burrell had a point.
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The
first newsletter was published in December
2000 at the Association's inception and was available to prospective
members. It contained articles about the founder secretary in 1907,
historical research by Professor Dr Rudolph, cartoon images of Runners
from the 1920s and show results from three of the major Autumn shows in
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