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Muscovy duck

Cairina moschata

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lori.tas
lori.tas 12 years ago
Muscovey duck
Cairina moschata Muscovy Duck


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lori.tas
lori.tas 12 years ago

Here are some of my girls with their clutches (http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/569...). As you can see they now come in lots of colors. The wild type is black with some white in the wings.

MitchRay
MitchRay 12 years ago

I had no idea, how interesting. As a duck hunter, we prize several different dabbling ducks for their flavor, but I tend not to think of them as livestock. Thank you for sharing lori.tas!

lori.tas
lori.tas 12 years ago

Because they make a very good backyard egg-layer and meat producing breed. In fact moscovys are second only to Peking ducks in term of the most popular meat breed. They just happen to be very good at surviving on their own if they get loose or are dumped.

I have a flock of five at the moment.

MitchRay
MitchRay 12 years ago

Ah the Muscovy. Not sure why people thought it would be a good idea to transplant these "beauties" all over the place

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Spotted on Apr 9, 2011
Submitted on Apr 24, 2011

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