Domestic duck
Domestic duck | |
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Domesticated
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Anseriformes |
Family: | Anatidae |
Genus: | Anas |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | A. p. domesticus
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Trinomial name | |
Anas platyrhynchos domesticus |
The domestic duck (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus) is a subspecies of
Duck farming is simplified by their reliable flocking behaviour, and their ability to forage effectively for themselves. Over 80% of global duck production is in China. Breeds such as
In culture, ducks feature in children's stories such as
Origins
Domestication
Domestic ducks appear from
Wild ducks were hunted extensively in Ancient Egypt and other parts of the world in ancient times, but were not domesticated. Ducks are documented in Ancient Rome from the second century BC, but descriptions – such as by Columella – suggest that ducks in Roman agriculture were tamed, not domesticated; there was no duck breeding in Roman times, so eggs from wild ducks were needed to start duck farms.[3]
Origins of breeds
Most
Other breeds are purely ornamental, having been selected for their crests, tufts, or striking plumage, for exhibition in competitions.[7]
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White Pekinsare raised for meat.
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Muscovy ducksproduce a richly-flavoured meat, and are kept as pets.
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Indian Runner ducks stand upright, do not fly, and may produce over 300 eggs per year.[2]
Farming
Husbandry
Ducks have been farmed for thousands of years.
Ducks may lay some 200 eggs per year,
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Painting by José Honorato Lozano of duck farms along the Pasig River in the Philippines, 1821
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Turning duck eggs in front of incubators, Germany, 1952
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Fattening ducks to produce foie gras, France, 2012
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Duck farm in the Philippines, 2014
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Inspecting duck eggs at a hatchery, Vietnam, 2014
Systems
In East and Southeast Asia, rice-duck farming is widely practised. This polyculture yields both rice and ducks from the same land; the ducks eat small pest animals in crop; they stir the water, limiting weeds, and manure the rice. Other polycultures in the region include rice-fish-duck and rice-fish-duck-azolla systems, where fish further manure the rice and help to control pests.[12][13]
Pests and diseases
Domestic ducks have the advantage over other
Production
In 2021 approximately 4.3 billion ducks were slaughtered for meat worldwide, for a total yield of about 6.2 million tonnes;
As food
Meat
Since ancient times, the duck has been eaten as food.
Eggs and other products
In France, ducks are used for the production of
Duck eggs are eaten mainly in Asian countries such as China;[10]: 258 in the Philippines, balut – a fertilised duck egg at about 17 days of development, boiled and eaten with salt – is considered a delicacy and is sold as street food.[10]: 53
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Duck eggs (left), larger and greener than chicken eggs (right) at market, Vietnam, 2022
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Sichuan-style tea-smoked zhangcha duck
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Duck liver pâté
In culture
For children
The domestic duck has appeared numerous times in children's stories.
The domestic duck features in the musical composition Peter and the Wolf, written by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev in 1936. The orchestra illustrates the children's story while the narrator tells it.[31] In this, a domestic duck and a little bird argue on each other's flight capabilities. The duck is represented by the oboe. The story ends with the wolf eating the duck alive, its quack heard from inside the wolf's belly.[32]
The duck theme in Peter and the Wolf: Oboe |
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In art and folk culture
Domestic ducks are frequently depicted in wall paintings and grave objects from ancient Egypt.[33] They are featured in a range of ancient artefacts, which revealed that they were a fertility symbol.[34]
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Tell el-Yahudiyeh Ware duck,
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Faience duck vase,
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Pendant with duck's head,
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Edvard Munch's painting Jensen with Slaughtered Duck, 1912
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Balinese traditional painting depicting a traditional paddy field with ducks foraging for food.
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'The Big Duck', Long Island, New York: built on a duck farm, 1931
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- ^ a b Bezemer, Marjolein (23 October 2022). "Mixed farming increases rice yield". reNature Foundation. Archived from the original on 11 October 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
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- ^ Musa, Sharmin; Rahman, Tania; Khanum, Hamida (2012). "Prevalence and intensity of parasites in domestic ducks" (PDF). Dhaka University Journal of Biological Sciences. 21 (2): 197–199.
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External links
Media related to Anas platyrhynchos domesticus at Wikimedia Commons
Duck at the Wikibooks Cookbook subproject