Hybrid Cross Between a Duck and a Goose: Do Gucks Exist?

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I had a gander hatched by a Muscovy duck he lived mated and probably thought he was a giant Muscovy for 5 yrs before I got a female goose. Never did they produce off spring. He also mated with all the other female Muscovy I had at the time.
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What breed is your duck?
 
Hlingra said:
We saw what appears to be a cross between a Mallard and a Goose earlier today at the historical Edinburg Mills and Museum in Edinburg, Virginia. The below black-and-white shows clear indication of the Mallard head/face colorations and goose size/coloring across the chest.
There were both geese and several Mallards cohabitating at this location, with the below pictured bird suggesting a successful crossbreeding occurred.

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Are you joking? 🙃 That is a domestic duck, or possibly a duck that had a domestic mother and a mallard father. Black with a white bib is a common color of ducks that are part domestic and part mallard.

There is no such thing as a bird that is part duck and part goose. It's just a myth that pops up on the internet again and again. I'm not sure why some individuals so badly want to believe that myth is true.
 
Kimmyh51 said:
Apologies if this is one of the Links already added. Cambridge uni have republished this article about the hybrid between a goose and a duck.

I always thought claims of duck geese hybrids were absolute nonsense. But at the moment I have a female domestic duck who has been in a committed relationship with a gander for around 3 years now. She’s acting broody and I think has a nest across the river. I assumed nothing would hatch as her gander is pretty protective and woe betide any drake who tried to mate her..
so if she hatches anything I’ll be looking very carefully at it after reading this!

though I am thinking if such a thing could happen it would most likely need help to hatch. So I better watch her when she returns to her nest.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...mestic-goose/0BF2D6230CBE5AC5DB6A22F53C96DB64

same article here in its entirety without needing a Cambridge login

https://brill.com/previewpdf/journals/beh/3/1/article-p99_4.xml
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That's from 1950s - there's no such crosses. It may have been a muscovy that the articles you linked are referring to and the author at the time didn't know? People keep geese and ducks together - if it were possible, these hybrids would happen frequently enough.
The original pic in this thread is a domestic duck.
 

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