Rouen Clair
A variety of the Rouen Clair
Duck · Tinted eggs · Laying
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About the Rouen Clair
The Rouen Clair wears light-phase ('clair') mallard plumage, paler than the dark-phase colouring of the standard Rouen: the female shows a soft Isabelle-clair ground rather than rich brown, and on the speculum the light-phase gene gives the secondary coverts fine white tips not seen on dark-phase ducks. Set on a slightly more upright, lighter frame than the great Rouen, this French dual-purpose duck keeps the handsome mallard look while laying far better.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Tinted
- Eggs per year
- About 180
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Heavy
- Incubation
- 28 days
- Broodiness
- Moderate
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
- Origin
- France
- Scientific name
- Anas platyrhynchos domesticus