Black Crested Duck
A variety of the Crested Duck
Duck · White eggs · Ornamental
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About the Black Crested Duck
The Black is the other standardised Crested variety, admitted to the American Standard of Perfection in 1977 — black and white are the only two colours the APA or UK standards recognise. Ideally the plumage is solid black with a green sheen, topped by the same round skull crest as the white. An active, charming ornamental duck and a fair layer of white eggs; like all Cresteds it must be bred crested to plain because the crest gene is lethal when doubled.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- White
- Eggs per year
- About 130
- Purpose
- Ornamental
- Sizes
- Medium
- Incubation
- 28 days
- Broodiness
- Low
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure
- Origin
- East Indies (developed in the Netherlands)
- Scientific name
- Anas platyrhynchos domesticus