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Now: One breeding trio of Pilgrims £120. 2 young female geese not pure breed £60 ........................................................ 2 breeding pairs of 2011 Pilgrim geese £80 each. From unrelated parent birds and pairs made up from different sets of parent birds. The companionship of...

Check out the pure Apricot Trout Runners on ebay by BunnyBee111. The main photo I've seen somewhere in a book or standard. The photos of the birds in the garden are something else and certainly not pure.

I keep a lot of leave for this time of year for days like today when it's freezing and snowing on snow and nothings moving except a few 4 x 4's and tractors - so's to be sure the birds are OK. The muscovies are happy, flying around and chirping and laying eggs. Mrs Goose is stiffening up now...

Apricot/Saxony coloured ducks POL £15-25 depending on standard, all lovely birds. Running in a grass paddock behind electric fencing. Various colour drakes also available, very handsome, upright birds.

A pretty and cheerful trio of ducks WH size and shape but not pure, one duck white base colour with markings and one duck fawnish. Just beginning to lay. Near jct 24 or 25 M5. £30

2010 Pair of Pilgrim Geese. A rare autosexing breed, the males are white and the females grey. They are a quiet, charming breed making delightful pets. Location near junction 24 or 25 M5.

Runner ducklings in trout, blue-trout or apricot-trout colour. Various ages (from 4 weeks when they can be sexed) and quality, but all lovely ducks for pets - so various prices from £10-15 for a female. Reared free range on grass from pure breed unrelated birds. Jane www.steepleducks.co.uk

Hi, we have a small group of people in Somerset & West Wiltshire breeding from our Pilgrim geese. We'd be very interested to know of other people keeping & breeding them. We will have a few 2010 goslings that we would like to exchange for unrelated birds. Hope to hear from you .......

Hi, I'm getting lovely quality eggs from this pen that should give 50/50 Rhodebar/RIR utility pullets. My incubator is full, fertility is 100%. £1 each plus postage of your choice or collection.

A few birds for sale to make room, please see www.wfpoultry.co.uk for contact details. Thank you.

My goose has been limping for a few days. Today she has been lying around not eating though I moved her onto good grass, tried dandelion leaves & wheat but no interest. She did do a run & flap up the paddock with her gander. I dosed her with levamisole wormer yesterday evening & had hoped to see...

The article & the geese photos are very very appealing.The article describing their character & quirks so closely sums up the geese that I know. I need a warning finger very occasionally & get the apologetic look exactly, or a twinkle in the eye "only joking". I took a gander to a lady in...

Yes you're right I should have said Chick Pea yellow = Erbsgelb it has the addition of the sex linked brown gene so the ducks are deeper yellow and the speculum brownish. The drakes look v similar. www.runnerduck.net/new_colours

I'm looking forward to the photos too. Abacot Rangers would be my next choice of duck if I do not control myself (oh after a couple of muscovy ducks for broodies) and it looks like I'll be breeding the Chick pea (Blau-gelb?) Runners next year that are standard in europe but not here yet.

I visited the Devon & Cornwall show last year & would recommend it. It has different breeders showing than Solihull so you see some different birds.The lighting was good and the natives cheerful & keen to help.