Swedish ducks are a very hardy, strong duck with good foraging ability and suitable for free-range duck farming. The advantage of the Black Swedish over the Blue Swedish is that the Black Swedish will breed true. If you mate a Black Swedish with a Black Swedish, all their ducklings will be Black Swedish.
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Swedish Ducks came to the United States in the late 1800s. The egg color of the Blue Swedish duck is white, green, or blue-tinted. They are slow to mature and do not do well in confinement, make a good meat duck, and are a moderate egg layer. Sometimes they are quite noisy. The ducks have a loud yelling type quack.
Blue Swedish duck plumage is a uniform bluish slate, with some feathers laced in a darker shade. They carry some white on their wings and breast; drakes are slightly darker than ducks. Adult Swedish ducks weigh between 5 to 8 pounds fully grown, and females lay between 130-180 large white to green-tinted eggs a year.
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Ducklings have black, blue, or splash down feathers and their beaks, legs, and feet are black, grey, or orange.
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Blue, Black, Silver Swedish
Blue, Black, and Silver Swedish ducks are very hardy, foragers, and do well free-ranging. They were first imported to the U.S. in the late 1800s. They are slow to mature but make a good meat duck, and a moderate egg layer, and do not do well in confinement. Sometimes they are quite noisy with their loud yelling type quack.
APPROX. 180 LARGE EGGS/YEAR | EGG COLOR: WHITE TO GREEN/BLUE TINT | MATURE WEIGHT: 7-8 LBS.