Black Muscovy
A variety of the Muscovy
Duck · Cream eggs · Meat
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About the Black Muscovy
Black is the wild-type, baseline colour of the Muscovy and the most common: a solid black plumage with a green-bronze sheen, set against the breed's knobbly red facial caruncles. Ducklings hatch with dark heads, bodies, bills and feet. All other Muscovy colours derive from this base by dilution or recessive genes, so the Black carries the breed's hardy, quiet, fine lean-meat character in its purest form.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Cream
- Eggs per year
- About 100
- Purpose
- Meat
- Sizes
- Heavy
- Incubation
- 35 days
- Broodiness
- High
- Cold hardiness
- Moderate
- Purity
- Pure
- Origin
- Central and South America
- Scientific name
- Cairina moschata