Pekin and Muscovy

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Isabella

Isabella

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Will Muscovy male breed a Pekin female? We had a Pekin female and a friend gave me a Muscovy male to breed with her so we can have fertile eggs to hatch. If they will breed and have fertile eggs do you think that would make a good meat bird cross? Thanks
Isabella
 
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From http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6709575

Artificial insemination and natural mating were used for the crossbreeding of the Muscovy drake with the Pekin duck in order to produce the Mule duck. An average fertility rate of 48% was reached by artificially inseminating twice a week. In small flocks, however, when the male to female ratio was 1:2.5 (or higher), natural mating yielded a fertility rate of 80%.
 
" A duck is a duck and all ducks..."


DO I need to elaborate?
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Yes that would make a good meat duck. Just remember the young from that cross will not be able to reproduce so don't plan on keeping any to breed.
 

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