At a glance
- Origin
- Central and South America
- Scientific name
- Cairina moschata
- Eggs per year
- ~100
- Egg colour
- Cream
- Incubation
- 35 days
- Broodiness
- High
- Cold hardiness
- Moderate
- Sizes
- Heavy
- Purpose
- Meat
- Purity
- Pure
About the Chocolate Muscovy
Chocolate is a sex-linked recessive brown: a warm milk-chocolate plumage that bleaches to a lighter brown under strong sun. Because the gene is sex-linked, a chocolate or chocolate-carrying drake over a non-chocolate female throws only chocolate daughters, making it useful for auto-sexing crosses. Ducklings hatch rusty-brown. Beneath the colour it is the same quiet, broody, lean meat duck.
Available clutches
No clutches available right now.
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