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Magpie Duck
Location
Eden, NC
Project type
Magpie
Date
April 2024
We offer Magpie Duck Hatching Eggs .The Magpie was bred after the end of the First World War by M.C. Gower-Williams in Wales and Oliver Drake in Yorkshire.[11][7] The ancestry of the breed is not known; it may have included the Indian Runner, possibly with some influence of the Huttegem of Belgium. The Magpie was first described in 1921;[9] a breeders' club was formed in 1926, and a breed standard published in a supplement to the Poultry Club Standards in that year. At that time, two color varieties were recognized by the club, the black-and-white and the blue-and-white. The black-and-white variant remained the only color recognized by the Poultry Club of Great Britain until 1997, when blue-and-white and dun-and-white were recognized; the chocolate-and-white variant, developed by breeders in Germany, was later added.
The Magpie was exported to the United States in 1963, but was not widely kept. It was admitted to the American Standard of Perfection in 1977.



