Talk:Aylesbury duck

message: How long do aylesbury ducks live for?
:In theory, around 10 years. However, there's no such thing as a wild Aylesbury duck, and commercially raised ducks are generally slaughtered a couple of months after hatching. – iridescent 09:38, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Question

message: There is yet another pub to the north of Aylesbury called The Aylesbury Duck, and this was the cause of a local scandal when the pub sign was initially painted as a Mallard (more colourful, but not an Aylesbury duck).  In a vain attempt to appease the body was repainted white, but the bill was still yellow and this created the portrait of a Pekin duck instead!  Finally the bill was repainted to the regulation 'flesh colour' (according to old documents) and peace was restored.
Old Aylesburian (talk) 07:37, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I was trying to avoid turning into a list of all the duck-related things in Aylesbury, just because there are so many. (Unless someone is particularly interested in canals or condensed milk, they're the only thing most people associate with Aylesbury.) I suspect (albeit with no evidence) that if one went back further, back in the 19th century probably every other pub in central Bucks was called "The Duck", given how iconic they were. – iridescent 17:26, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Local Colour 

message: Shame there are no photos of Aylesbury ducks. Any reason why? They would illustrate the subject much better than that old black and white engraving. 86.159.193.103 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 08:23, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The reason why is simple; there's only one flock of the things in the UK, and that's on private land. That said, even if we had a wonderful quality photo, I'd still argue for the 1873 engraving as the lead image. That image is there for a reason; 1873 was the year Pekin ducks were introduced to Britain and, as well as cross-breeding with native strains, influenced peoples' idea of what a duck "ought to look like", and hence the breed standard—thus, 1873 was the last year of the pure Aylesbury duck, and prize-winning ducks of that year (which those are) represent the closest to a perfection of the idealised breed strain. – iridescent 17:02, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
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