KINTALINE FARM PLANT AND POULTRY CENTRE Benderloch by OBAN Argyll PA37 1QS Scotland
2010 is a year for re-evaluating all our values and working to improve our personal sustainability, there has never been a better time to get our gardens working harder for ourselves, growing our own food: meat and eggs, recycling more, breeding more useful types of birds, and helping each other.
Our websites are full of experienced advice, from decades of breeding and rearing and eating, and well researched, reliable, state of the art products for the domestic environment.
We look forward to helping you get more out of your garden or smallholding, and your birds, for a fulfilling 2010.
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We are very busy outside these days so, sometimes, the office is not manned.
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Argyll JACOB SHEEP, raised here on the farm for their lamb, mutton, fleece and rugs

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Ardchattan parish : Benderloch, Barcaldine, North connel, Bonawe - Past and Present
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Waterfowl : Utility Breeds of Ducks : BLUE SWEDISH
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BLUE SWEDISH DUCKS
Blue Swedish used to be working birds, providing moderate numbers of eggs and a reasonable carcass, but there has been little selection for these traits over the past 30-50 years so they are really just attractive garden pets nowadays.
The blue is, in fact, grey feathering, and frequently there is a darker modifier in the genetics, so it is not uncommon to get almost black youngsters with the white bib as well as the paler grey birds. Few breeders would chose the dark ones to add to a breeding flock.
The bib should be front and centre, it is considered a fault for it to be around the neck, but, with age, birds may develop more and more white feathering as the years pass.
pair of blue swedish ducks
A pair of Blue Swedish ducks

This is a striking looking bird and the genetics of achieving the colour make it a challenging breed for breeders. Friendly and a good size.
ORIGIN : Europe
BREEDING :
EGGS: reasonable layer
SIZE : heavy; drakes- 8 lbs. (3.6 kg)
ducks - 7 lbs. (3.2kg)
MEAT: A good sized bird but fairly slow maturing
TEMPERAMENT : Easy going and reasonably active

The Breed standard gives you the goals for exhibition perfection


Tim and Jill Bowis
Kintaline Mill Farm, Benderloch, OBAN Argyll PA37 1QS Scotland
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information about our hardy plant nursery


Our hardy PLANT NURSERY where we grow interesting and unusual perennials, herbs and lots of rhododendrons

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Full range of BOOKS and DVDS's on poultry keeping, other smallholding topics and related gift ideas.

let the white campbell drake take you into the world of ducks at Kintaline


Let the white campbell drake lead you into the world of DUCKS

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Click on Louis to find out about traditional utility breeds of CHICKENS

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Around the garden we have a G scale Garden Railway track. Tim is delighted to meet fellow enthusiasts

Here at Kintaline Plant and Poultry Centre we have very full days with our birds and plants outside, guests and customers visiting the farm, as well as email and phone customers.
Please email with your daytime and evening telephone numbers if you are having difficulties getting hold of us by phone. We will return your call as soon as we can.

Local Origins Rural Network Oban farmers market Argyll

Here at Kintaline : Local Farmers and Crafters Market - every first and third Thursday of the month, March to Decemberfor producers from Dalmally to Oban, Glencoe to Kilmelford, Lismore and Kerrera.

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