Blue Swedish
A variety of the Blue Swedish
Duck · White eggs · Laying
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About the Blue Swedish
The blue is the only Swedish variety recognised in the standards: a uniform bluish-slate body offset by a clean white bib, with the standard calling for two or three white outer flight (primary) feathers. Genetically heterozygous for the blue dilution gene, it cannot breed true — a blue x blue pairing yields roughly 50% blue, 25% black and 25% splash. Otherwise it carries the breed's calm, hardy, dual-purpose nature: a good forager laying white to tinted eggs.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- White
- Eggs per year
- About 130
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Heavy
- Incubation
- 28 days
- Broodiness
- Moderate
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure
- Origin
- Pomerania (now Germany / Poland)
- Scientific name
- Anas platyrhynchos domesticus