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Chocolate

A variant of Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata)

Representative Muscovy duckphoto — a dedicated image of this exact morph isn't available yet.

A warm milk-chocolate-brown plumage color from a sex-linked recessive dilution of black. Popular with hobby and show keepers.

Chocolate is sex-linked recessive — a chocolate drake x non-chocolate duck gives chocolate daughters, useful for color-sexing ducklings at hatch.

This page covers the Chocolate variant. For full husbandry, water params, diet and health —General care: Muscovy duck →