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Farm Mallard x farm Muscovy, perhaps?
stevethehydra
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I'm going back and forth on whether I think this has a Muscovy parent or is "just" a domestic Mallard type...
Has the horizontal carriage of a Muscovy.. also a long tail and elongated back and rear end.. Most farmyard ducks of Mallard ancestry tend to have a more upright carriage.. (apart from some exhibition breeds).. I'm pretty certain this is a Muscovy X some domestic Mallard breed or crossbreed..
I googles muscovy to see more variations, found this on images https://www.omlet.co.uk/breeds/ducks/muscovy
2nd pic in 3rd row a possibility. this must be the female partner to the darker duck just posted above
2nd pic in 3rd row a possibility. this must be the female partner to the darker duck just posted above
stevethehydra
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If they were together, that increases the chances of them both being hybrids (the other one is very definitely half Muscovy). Guessing this is the female as Muscovies have a big sex dimorphism in size and that probably carries over to the hybrids to some extent (though, like all domestics, they are very varied in size regardless of sex).
Joern Lehmhus
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agree this is domestic muscovy x domestic mallard
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