At a glance
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Scientific name
- Anas platyrhynchos domesticus
- Eggs per year
- ~240
- Egg colour
- White
- Incubation
- 28 days
- Broodiness
- Moderate
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Sizes
- Medium
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
About the Chocolate and White Ancona
The chocolate Ancona shows warm brown patches in place of black, broken randomly across the white ground in the breed's signature no-two-alike pattern. Chocolate is a sex-linked recessive trait: a chocolate drake over a black duck yields all-chocolate daughters and black sons, letting breeders sex ducklings by colour. It keeps the Ancona's white neck, spotted bill and hardy, generous-laying character.
Available clutches
No clutches available right now.
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