Muscovy ducks, also known as red-billed geese, lumpy ducks and western ducks, belong to the duck family. Strictly speaking, muscovy duck is not a duck. The relationship between muscovy ducks and ducks is similar to that between tigers and lions. Both animals belong to the same genus, but they are different species.

Muscovy duck was originally produced in tropical America, and it has a long history of breeding in China, which can be traced back to hundreds of years ago. After years of domestication, I gradually adapted to the environment in most parts of China.

in the annals of Quanzhou compiled in 1763, there are records about muscovy ducks. Before that period, people in China had already started to breed this kind of animal.

after years of artificial breeding, muscovy ducks have gradually formed many varieties in China. Among them, Yangxin Muscovy Duck is the most famous. Yangxin Muscovy Duck is also known as Yangxin Tun Bird.

because of different breeds, the morphological differences between muscovy ducks are also great. Some are white, some are gray-black, and some are gray-green.

No matter what kind of muscovy duck, there is a remarkable feature on its body-a red sarcoma in its brain. It is also for this reason that muscovy duck is also called tumor-headed duck.

after hundreds of years of domestication, the habits of muscovy ducks have changed greatly. Some species of muscovy ducks have lost the ability to fly, and some muscovy ducks have become terrestrial birds because of the breeding environment.

in fact, no matter what kind of muscovy duck, it can be regarded as a natural swimmer. Just because of some special breeding environments, some species of muscovy ducks are no longer keen on swimming. As long as conditions permit, muscovy ducks will also go for a stroll in the water if they have nothing to do.

In muscovy duck's genes, the genes that love water are naturally hidden. Hundreds of years ago, the ancestors of muscovy ducks were basically inseparable from rivers and lakes.

Yangxintun birds are famous mainly because of the unique environment in Yangxin County. Yangxin county is known as the county of 1 lakes, with a relatively wide water area. Therefore, the species of Yangxintun bird was created.

It can be seen that large-scale breeding of muscovy ducks is inseparable from water, and muscovy ducks will naturally not be dry ducks.

Muscovy ducks are also called "African geese" here. I remember that people began to raise them here in the late 199s. When I first saw this red-faced African goose, everyone thought it was a red-faced duck and a new type of pet. The people who just started breeding African geese can say that the income is good, because people have a desire to try new things.

In recent years, there have been more and more African geese farmers. My father-in-law has many families in his village. It is believed that it is much easier to breed African geese than ducks, and the economic benefits are better than ducks. African geese have the following characteristics:

1. They can be kept in captivity: unlike ducks and geese, African geese need to be released for foraging, as long as they are kept in captivity. However, the flying ability of African geese is still there, so attention should be paid to trimming the feathers on their wings frequently when they are kept in captivity.

2. Don't touch water like ducks: African geese don't have to touch water like ducks, and they should always feed something fishy. Although African geese can swim, they don't like water very much, so there is no problem if they don't touch water. Because many people call African geese "dry ducks", in fact, African geese are not ducks, but belong to a family and genus with geese.

3. Meat and eggs can be sold for money: African geese grow meat faster, and their eggs are slightly larger than duck eggs, so the price is slightly more expensive than duck eggs. However, the price of African geese has decreased in recent years, and now the live African geese in our market are generally less than a catty in 2 yuan.

4. The egg laying rate is relatively high: African geese can lay almost one egg a day except for a period of time in summer and winter every year, and the egg laying rate can be said to be no lower than that of ducks.

5. The source of feed is easy to find: African geese can feed some grass and vegetable leaves with some grain. In this rural area, feed is still very easy to find, so the cost of breeding is not high. However, African geese are not so good. They should be cleaned frequently when kept in captivity, so it is dirty to keep.

6. The taste of African geese is better than that of ducks: the meat quality of African geese is compact, and it is not as high as the subcutaneous fat content of ducks, and it has no fishy smell like ducks, and its meat quality is not as firewood as geese. It can be said that it combines the advantages of duck meat and goose meat.

I think the most delicious way to eat African geese is to make soup. After cleaning the African geese, chop the meat into small pieces, blanch it in water, and then take it out and wash it.

add oil to the pan, stir-fry the African geese until their skins change color, then add onion and ginger to make them smell, add soup after cooking a little cooking wine, simmer until the meat is rotten, and then add salt, pepper and chicken essence to taste.

The meat of African geese is particularly fragrant. Cooking it doesn't need to add too many spices to cover up the odor, because it doesn't have as many odors as ducks and geese, and it's not so greasy, so it's very delicious poultry meat.

Although the muscovy duck looks like a duck, it is actually not a duck. It is a close relative to the wild goose, and the wild goose is a close relative to the goose. The most obvious thing is that geese are not afraid of people, and muscovy ducks are also not afraid of people. The key point is that they will attack people with their mouths, while ordinary ducks are extremely afraid of people. So it's a muscovy duck, not a duck. In this case, it's not a so-called landlubber, do you think?

Muscovy duck is also one of the most popular exotic species, mainly because its meat quality is particularly compact, with more fiber and special flavor, and it tastes very similar to goose meat, which is also a way to prove that Muscovy duck is not a duck. Muscovy ducks are especially suitable for stewing soup or stewing mushrooms.

Muscovy ducks, especially female ducks, can fly for a long distance without landing during estrus, and can fly for several kilometers at a time, in order to find male Muscovy ducks. It can be seen that if you want to breed muscovy ducks, you must take protective measures to avoid flying out and causing losses. Or take captive and wing cutting and so on.

Muscovy ducks can swim, not landlubbers.

Muscovy duck is a domesticated species of Cairina moschata, which, like sweet potato, originated in America, so it is called Muscovy Duck. Common names include musk duck, red-faced duck, humped duck, fire duck, lazy duck and American duck.

There are many common names all over China. When I was a child, I spent some time in Pengze, Jiangxi Province, and I saw this kind of poultry. At that time, I thought this guy was terrible, because there were large red sarcomas around his eyes and nose, just like sores, which made my scalp numb. I thought it was a sick duck, but it was bigger than ordinary ducks. The locals called it ten. It is called tun (similar pronunciation) in Hubei, and it is also called landlubber in some places, but it can swim clearly and likes water, but it does not depend on water and can be raised in dry land.

In some places, it is considered to be a hybrid of ducks and geese, or even a mutant. In fact, it is an independent duck species, and it is not in the same genus as domestic ducks. The warty-nosed duck belongs to the genus of domestic ducks, most of which are domesticated by Anas platyrhynchos and belong to the genus of ducks. A warty-nosed duck can cross with a domestic duck, but its offspring are infertile, just like mules, so it is also called Mulard.

The wart-nosed duck is native to tropical rain forests in America, so it is certain that it can swim. In addition, because of its short domestication history and strong wings, the wart-nosed duck can fly short distances. It also retains the habit of nesting, while the habit of nesting of domestic ducks has basically disappeared.

The wart-nosed duck was domesticated in America for an unknown time. It was introduced to China hundreds of years ago. In the 28th year of Qing Qianlong (1763), Quanzhou Fuzhi recorded: "The muscovy duck is as big as a duck and as big as a goose. It was born with its eggs in its arms, and it was imported from foreign countries". In the Qing Dynasty, the Records of Karmalan Hall recorded: "It is as big as a duck, with small hair, dark red mouth and feet, and the meat is coarse and tasteless. It comes from foreign countries ... as big as a goose, with fine feet; The cheeks are as red as a cockscomb, and the male is redder. " It can be seen that muscovy duck has been cultivated in China for more than 25 years, so it has become the raw material of some local famous dishes, such as Jiangmu duck in Fujian and Baodao, Muscovy duck stewed with papaya and Jiaji duck in Hainan.

Muscovy ducks are cultivated on a large scale in China. An article in March, 22 showed that the breeding scale of Muscovy ducks in China reached 21 million, with 15, employees and an output value of 2.1 billion, which is equivalent to that of domestic ducks (mallard ducks). In May, the National Catalogue of Genetic Resources of Livestock and Poultry listed Muscovy Duck as a special livestock and poultry.

Muscovy duck is the most fragrant duck in the world, because it is not only a high-end food, but also emits a musk smell, which can be described as "fragrant smell, fragrant lips and teeth". So, what kind of duck is such a delicious and delicious duck? Is it a dry duck? Let's take a brief look at this magical duck. Muscovy duck

Are the friends lured by the ducks in the above picture? Yes, it is the delicious "Ginger Duck" made of muscovy ducks. Muscovy duck is a kind of duck originated in Central and South America, which belongs to the family Anacardidae, and belongs to the same family and different genera as our common domestic duck.

There are two kinds of ducks under the habitat duck: the warty-nosed duck and the white-winged duck. There are great differences between these two kinds of ducks. First of all, the warty-nosed duck has obvious red wart, and the male wart is bigger than the female, while the white-winged duck does not have this feature. Secondly, male verrucous-nosed ducks will give off musk smell, but white-winged ducks do not have this ability. The most important thing is that white-winged ducks are far away from verrucous-nosed ducks in taste, and muscovy ducks are single-fingered verrucous-nosed ducks in China.

Of course, the muscovy duck we eat is definitely not a wild species brought from Central and South America, because the warty-nosed duck is a low-risk protected animal. However, since the meat quality is good (the whole body is lean, and the cholesterol is zero), there is a market, and there is artificial breeding when there is a market. Therefore, all the muscovy ducks we can eat in China are "domesticated and artificially cultured versions" of warty-nosed ducks. Simply speaking, the relationship between muscovy ducks and warty-nosed ducks is just like the relationship between domestic ducks and mallard ducks, which is the difference between domesticated and wild versions.

after artificial domestication, many muscovy ducks have the biggest difference from wild muscovy ducks, that is, some muscovy ducks have completely turned white (some muscovy ducks are still the same as wild muscovy ducks, accounting for half of them), while wild muscovy ducks have black and white feathers with some dark metallic green in the middle. At present, a certain scale of breeding has been formed in the southern part of China. However, due to the short domestication time of the wart-nosed duck, it can still fly short distances unlike domestic ducks. Is Muscovy Duck a Dry Duck?

The word dry duck has several meanings. The first one refers to a duck that rarely goes into the water. It has nothing to do with the kind of duck, but the habit that arises from the different artificial breeding environments. After all, how can it swim if you keep the duck indoors and don't let it out? So, this is an explanation of dry duck.

Another explanation about dry duck is the common name of musk duck, that is, wart-nosed duck. This is because the domestication time of wart-nosed duck is short. If it is free-range, it is difficult to control it, but once it flies away, it will lose several hundred yuan. After all, under artificial breeding, wart-nosed duck can breed all year round, and duck eggs are part of the income, plus some hatched ducks grow up again, so flying away is a great loss.

However, the real wart-nosed duck is a kind of duck that lives in the Woods with streams, and their favorite thing is to play in the water. Moreover, the wart-nosed duck is an omnivorous bird, and most of its vegetarian food (plants) and meat (insects, fish and shrimp) come from the water.

Therefore, if the first interpretation of "dry duck" is used, the muscovy duck (warty-nosed duck) is not a dry duck, but if the second interpretation is used, the muscovy duck is a dry duck.

Finally, it is worth mentioning that muscovy ducks and domestic ducks belong to the same family and different genera, so although they can cross, their offspring will be as sterile as tigon. Therefore, the direction of cross breeding is obviously not feasible. Summary

Musk duck, Muscovy duck and wart-nosed duck are actually one kind of duck, but wart-nosed duck usually refers to wild individuals, while the other two names refer to domesticated individuals. Of course, dry ducks also refer to muscovy ducks, because domesticated muscovy ducks still have the ability to fly under artificial breeding, so in order to reduce losses, most of them adopt dry breeding methods.

Is Muscovy Duck a Dry Duck?

from a farmer's point of view, muscovy ducks belong to dry ducks, but dry ducks are not only muscovy ducks. Just like a well-known philosophical question: a white horse is a horse, but a white horse is not a horse, all of which are tossing about insufficient IQ, which makes people grow up early.

We all call Muscovy Duck a dry duck here, because this guy is the best with water, and he can survive without water, and he can be regarded as a man on dry land. As the name implies, it is called dry duck, which is well deserved. It is said that this guy is a vegetarian, and even a daunting snake can eat it. It's really awesome. , strong! ! ! Flying is also fierce, so it is big enough and old enough, and we have to cut some wings for it, otherwise it will be too difficult to catch it if it flies far away.

In fact, Muscovy ducks have lived in water for 18 generations, and then they were forced to go to dry land due to living conditions, and gradually they could live without water. But by instinct, muscovy ducks are natural swimmers, and their life in the water is more glossy and beautiful, and of course their meat quality is more compact. What's more, KKOO in the water is healthier and can protect the mother muscovy duck.

A few years ago, it was popular to raise a few dry ducks for ourselves. We thought that dry ducks were tolerant to rough feeding and had more lean meat. But now, the wind and water have turned, and I feel that it is easy to turn meat into firewood, but I like water ducks. Take the water duck to make some plasma duck, which is so beautiful that it can enhance happiness! ! !