Domestic ducks provide excellent meat and eggs, and — look out, ... The Silver Appleyard was developed to be a good foraging, dual-purpose bird, but it is also colorful in appearance.

Ducks include Ancona, Cayuga and Silver Appleyard. Hatching eggs, which they ship all over the country, are typically $35 for 6, or $60 per dozen, plus shipping.

Thieves took 25 ducks, of four different breeds, Saxony, Silver Call, Silver Appleyard Miniature and Khaki, with a total value of £500 from a farm on Blackrock Road.