The Duck Breed Selector: UK Standardised Breeds

From heavy breeds like the Aylesbury or Rouen to the 'bowling pin' Indian Runner or the tiny but noisey little Call duck, there's usually a breed of duck that will tickle your fancy!

Duck breeds are grouped into Heavy, Medium and Light weight classes in the standards. Commercially, ducks are usually bred for their meat, foie gras and eggs and this is why we have many of the breeds we have today. For the specialist breeders and keepers of pure breeds of ducks, they are charming pets, and produce reasonable numbers of eggs. Remember not all white ducks are Aylesburys, just like not every white goose is an Embden! Commercially, there are many crosses that have been created along the way and there are many white ducks that get seem to pick up the Aylesbury name.

We have taken many pictures of ducks at poultry and waterfowl shows but if you have a photograph of a good example of a domestic breed in a natural setting, we would certainly be interested in hearing from you.

Picture Above Right: A Crested duck, one of the more unusual breeds of duck.

Choose a breed from the link under the picture to go to the breed page.

Abacot Ranger (Male) Light Duck	Aylesbury (Male) Heavy Duck	Bali (Male) Light Duck	Black East Indian (Female) Bantam Duck
Blue Swedish (Female) Heavy Duck	Call (Female) Bantam Duck	Campbell Khaki (Male) Light Duck	Cayuga (Male) Heavy Duck
Crested Light Duck	Crested Miniature (Female) Bantam Duck	Hook Bill Dusky Bibbed (Male) Light Duck	Indian Runner White (Male) Runner Duck
Magpie Black and White (Female) Light Duck	Muscovy Black Magpie (Female) Heavy Duck	Orpington Buff (Male) Light Duck	Pekin (Female) Heavy Duck
Rouen (Male) Heavy Duck	Rouen Clair (Female) Heavy Duck	Saxony (Male) Heavy Duck	Silver Appleyard (Female) Heavy Duck
Silver Appleyard Miniature (Male) Bantam Duck	Silver Bantam (Male) Bantam Duck	Welsh Harlequin (Female) Light Duck

Duck Breeds Pictures Thanks... We have to give an extra special thank you to Rupert Stephenson, poultry photographer who has supplied us with so many first class duck breeds pictures for this area of the site and the British Waterfowl Association members for their support in allowing us to photograph their ducks.