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Barrie Hayman’s duck is quackers about his master

He was shunned by his feathered family when he was just days old.

Now, nearly three months on, this ugly duckling has found an unlikely father figure to replace them – in the form of his breeder, Barrie Hayman.

The fairytale friendship was forged when Mr Hayman rescued the distressed duck, named Star, from his incubator. 

He noticed Star was panicked when he started doing a manic ‘waddling dance’ in an attempt to escape his hostile siblings.

Since then, the Indian Runner duck has become inseparable from 65-year-old Mr Hayman.

The 11-week-old bird follows him everywhere, from the pub to the supermarket, and even watches the rugby with him. 

Mr Hayman, from Eastleigh, Devon, said: ’He just won’t leave me and so now we go everywhere together,’ said Mr Hayman, who has been breeding ducks for 18 months. 

‘I’ve not trained him to follow me, he just seems to like it and he is one fantastic duck - I’ve never known any like it before.’

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