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 Pied Muscovy
Pied is the heterozygous expression of the white-spotting gene: an irregular mix of white patches over a coloured (typically black) base, the proportion of white varying bird to bird. One copy of the gene gives this piebald marking, while two copies produce a fully white duck. The underlying colour and the breed's hardy, quiet, broody meat-bird nature are unchanged by the spotting.
Available clutches
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