Blue Rouen
A variety of the Rouen
Duck · White eggs · Meat
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About the Blue Rouen
The Blue Rouen is the standard wild (mallard) pattern carried over a single blue dilution gene (Bl/bl+), so the drake's normally black-grey body tones and the hen's brown shade off to a smoky slate-blue. It is one of the colours standardised by the British Waterfowl Association alongside the grey and the double-dilute Apricot, but remains far scarcer than the classic grey. Body type, size and docile table-duck temperament are unchanged from the breed baseline.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- White
- Eggs per year
- About 140
- Purpose
- Meat, Ornamental
- Sizes
- Heavy
- Incubation
- 28 days
- Broodiness
- Moderate
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure
- Auto-sexing
- Yes
- Origin
- France
- Scientific name
- Anas platyrhynchos domesticus