Shetland duck

Shetland
Traits
A week old duckling
Conservation status	Endangered
Country of origin	Scotland
Distribution	Scotland
Use	Eggs
Weight	Male: 2 kg
	Female: 1.8 kg
Egg color	White
Classification
Duck

The Shetland duck is a breed of domestic duck originating in the Shetland Islands^[1] in Scotland.^[2] It is critically endangered.^[3]

History

The Shetland duck is thought to have evolved from the Pomeranian duck or Swedish Blue duck, due to its similar appearance. It is thought that the Vikings brought the Shetland to Britain.^[1]^[4]

Characteristics

The Shetland duck is a small, hardy breed. It is similar to Pomeranian duck or Swedish Blue duck, it shares the same ancestors with them. It is black with a white bib. They typically have blue bills. The average weight of the Shetland duck is 2 kg for males and 1.8 kg for females. Ducklings are dark brown with buff breasts

Diet

The Shetland duck is able to eat seeds as well as bugs and microbes.

References

1 2 "Shetland - Duck breed" Britannic Rare Breeds. Retrieved 2014-3-25.
↑ "Shetland duck". 2011-12-03.
↑ "Breeds currently recorded in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources" (PDF). FAO. 2011-10-14.
↑ "Knowledge base".

Livestock breeds of the British Isles

Cattle

Beef cattle	Angus Belted Galloway Devon Dexter English Longhorn Hereford Highland Luing Shorthorn South Devon Sussex Welsh Black

Dairy cattle	Ayrshire Guernsey Jersey Milking Shorthorn

Dual purpose	British White Gloucester Pembroke Red Poll

Primitive	Chillingham wild cattle Vaynol White Park cattle

Sheep

Extant	Beulah Speckled Face Bluefaced Leicester Border Leicester British Milk Cheviot Clun Forest Cotswold Dalesbred Derbyshire Gritstone Devon Closewool Devon Longwoolled Dorset Down English Leicester Exmoor Horn Galway Greyface Dartmoor Hampshire Herdwick Hill Radnor Kerry Hill Lincoln Llanwenog Lleyn Lonk Norfolk Horn Oxford Down Portland Romney Rough Fell Ryeland Scottish Blackface Shetland Shropshire Southdown sheep Suffolk Swaledale Teeswater Welsh Mountain Wensleydale Whitefaced Woodland Wiltshire Horn

Primitive	Boreray Castlemilk Moorit Hebridean Jacob Manx Loaghtan North Ronaldsay Soay

Extinct	Scottish Dunface

Pigs

Extant	Berkshire British Landrace British Lop British Saddleback Essex Gloucestershire Old Spots Hampshire Large Black Large White Middle White Oxford Sandy and Black Tamworth Welsh Wessex Saddleback

Extinct	Cumberland Grice Lincolnshire Curly-coated Small Black Small White Yorkshire Blue and White

Goats

Anglo-Nubian Bilberry British Alpine Golden Guernsey Irish

Poultry

Chickens	Burford Brown Cornish Derbyshire Redcap Dorking Ixworth Marsh Daisy Modern Game Modern Langshan Norfolk Grey Old English Game Old English Pheasant Fowl Orpington Rosecomb Scots Dumpy Scots Grey Sebright Sussex

Ducks	Abacot Ranger Aylesbury Orpington Khaki Campbell Magpie Shetland Welsh harlequin

Geese	Brecon Buff Shetland

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Shetland duck

History

Characteristics

Diet

See also

References