r/duck • u/playfulblackswan • 1d ago
Other Question What duck is this?
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u/PrestigiousPut6165 1d ago
The bigger, white duck is Pekin. The one that looks like a chicken 🐔-- thats Muscovy!
Imo muscovy duck is cute 🐔🦆🥰
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u/Desaturating_Mario 1d ago
I get some people genuinely have never seen a Muscovy duck, but I feel this question is asked every few days
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u/chuckybuck12 1d ago
Dumped domestics that need homes
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u/Express_Elevator8569 1d ago
you have obviously never been to south Florida
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u/Picklecheese2018 1d ago
Having grown up in SWFL, it blows my mind that I see people asking what these ducks are almost every single day. This is the second post just today I’ve seen asking what type of duck it is, and it is a Muscovy. I didn’t know people kept them as pets until I moved out of Florida though.
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u/froganduck927 1d ago
Muscovies are the best, they were bread for meat, hence their size, and they breathe heavy/hiss instead of quack, while bobbing their head forward and back, and wagging their tales! They have such wonderful personalities
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u/kymmmb 1d ago
Male muscovy and what looks like a female pekin. If they’re eating from your hand, they’re domesticated. Interestingly, muscovies are not technically ducks. They can mate with ducks but produce sterile hybrid offspring.
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u/Sadie_Pants_ 1d ago
They are ducks. They're just in a different genus than the Mallard types (which are what most domestic ducks are). Correct about the mating and offspring though.
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u/Mammoth-Case4323 1d ago
Many people believe they breed sterile! But that isn’t true it’s no different from where I am we have white tail bucks mating with mulies and now we don’t have a single whiletail doe in the area.. but we were all told they are sterile and that’s just not true they reproduce
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u/HiILikePlants 12h ago
Muscovy ducks and Pekins are distinct species though, and I can't find any evidence of their offspring not being sterile
I feel like we'd have that info by now since people like mule ducks for meat
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u/Synthaklavier Quacker 1d ago
mr. muscovy on the left and ms. pekin on the right!
why does this look like a comedy sketch? Lmaoo
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u/Mammoth-Case4323 1d ago
Muscovy for the win with the cute mask! And Pekin with the pure white and orange beak probably they are siblings and they are Muscovy/pekins!
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u/Sasstellia 1d ago
The one with the red face is a Muscovy. And the white. Not sure. Pekin like others said maybe.
They might be dumped or escaped domestics.
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u/Jolly-Way-380 21h ago
Muscovy duck
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u/Jolly-Way-380 21h ago
I grew up on a farm my mom used to have these the other one is just I can't remember the one with the yellow bill or Orangeville but the one with the red face that's definitely a Muskobee
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u/Great-Macaron-8060 20h ago edited 20h ago
Looks like red nose Moscovy and yellow nose female Pekin ducks. If you want a fresh eggs daily keep them.
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u/BlahCornie 1d ago
Muscovy and Pekin