- The Muscovy was originally a wild bird from Central / South America and it is the only domesticated duck that is not derived from the Mallard.
- Muscovy duck is calm, quite hardy, relatively unpretentious, little susceptibleto most bird diseases, is able to do without a reservoir.
- Wild female Muscovy Ducks have black legs, bills, and feet but feral and domestic females often have pink bills, yellow legs, and pale eyes.
- The domestic Muscovy duck is a capable, short-hop flyer, but perhaps it is their bulk that causes them to prefer both walking, and swimming, to flying.
- The true wild Muscovy duck, from which all domestic Muscovies originated, is blackish, with large white wing patches.
- Due to the larger size of the domestic Muscovy duck, the main reason this duck seems to be raised nowadays is for food purposes.
- The domesticated Muscovy duck is the sole domestic duck species that has not been bred from the mallard stock.
- Muscovy ducks had been domesticated by various Native American cultures in the Americas when Columbus arrived in the Bahamas.
- And like donkeys and horses, the mixed offspring of a Muscovy and mallard-domestic duck will be a “mule” that is unable to produce offspring.
- There is another type of growing feed known as the developing duck that lays eggs, and this type of feed is given to Muscovy ducks until they raise a group of...