Interesting Chinese Duck Breed not seen in the US

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Just popping here to share an interesting duck breed. I saw this type of duck when I took a trip to China. They are all white with black foot and bills. Males and females look the same. They remind me of female welshies. They are called the Liancheng Baiya 连城白鸭 The White Ducks of Liancheng.They are native to the Fujian Province of China and are found in the Liancheng County in the towns of Beituan, Chengguan, and Tangqian. They are a lightweight dual purpose bird; males weighing 3.17 lbs and females weighing 2.9 lbs. The females lays 230 eggs a year. This breed was developed during the Qing Dynasty during the reign of the Guangxu Emperor (reign 1875-1908).

Adult birds costs 200 Chinese Yuan which is about 28 USD each. Their eggs weigh about 68g, and have bluish tints. One drake of this breed can breed with 20-25 hens.

This breed of ducks likes living in mountainous and woody areas with flowing water. They are put into terrace rich patties during rice planting season to help with pests and fertilizing the crops. These ducks likes a lot of tall plants and shrubs around their coop like bamboo. They are heat hardy because the Fujian Province is in southern China and it gets really hot during the summers.

In China they are used as medicine birds like the silkie chickens. Meaning they are used in medicine broths. In chinese medicine this duck is considered "cold" meaning when one has a fever, infection, sore throat, inflammation this duck would be used with herbs to make broth with.

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Photos are not mines; these are from Baidu. (Because the one I saw were in cages in the butcher shop)
 
Very interesting! I did some research and found that the white of Pekins is not the same genetics as these ducks. They actually have a small amount of melanin in their feathers and lots in the bills and feet. I could not find anything relating the genetics with silver ducks. I found this picture of duckling comparison:
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They do remind me of silver but they may be a totally unique mutation.
 
cheezenkwackers said:
Very interesting! I did some research and found that the white of Pekins is not the same genetics as these ducks. They actually have a small amount of melanin in their feathers and lots in the bills and feet. I could not find anything relating the genetics with silver ducks. I found this picture of duckling comparison: View attachment 4071918
They do remind me of silver but they may be a totally unique mutation.
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I read on Baidu, it said the original Pekins which were developed the Ming Dynasty 1368-1644 in Nanjing. They were originally all black birds; because their ancestors were wild black ducks that lived in the Grand Canal, but you know black birds carcass isn't very easy to clean so when white mutations started to come out they chose to select the white birds to breed. White Pekins took 400 years to develop into the fully white birds we see today.

The Liancheng White Ducks shares ancestry with this type of duck that is native only to China's Anhui Province. The Zongyang Meiya 枞阳媒鸭 translates to The Matchmaking Ducks of Zongyang and the Shaoxing White Ducks 绍兴白鸭. On Baidu it says, the ancestors of the Liancheng White ducks were speckled with white stripes; black bill and feet.

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