Penguin ducks

Indian runner ducks

German Peking Ducks ("Kramer's Pocket Book of Rassegeflügelzucht" from 1926)

Penguins are domestic ducks with a steep, upright posture. In contrast to them, duck breeds bred in European areas have an almost horizontal posture.

Penguin type

The breeds belonging to this group deviate so much from the land duck type in posture and posture that one thinks of penguins rather than ducks when looking at them .

The penguin type of the domestic ducks corresponds to the Malay type of the chicken breeds (cf. Malay ). Essential and eponymous features of these ducks are the upright body and an upright shape. They have neither the horizontally carried body nor the flat, boat-like shape of the land ducks that are widespread in Europe.

Penguin-type ducks include

• the penguin or penguin duck,
• the Japanese duck ,
• the Indian runner and
• the German Peking Duck .

• Penguin ducks in comparison (after Dürigen )
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  Penguins

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  Running duck

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  Japanese duck

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  Peking duck

literature

• Wolfgang Rudolph : The house ducks (=  Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei . No. 492 ). 2nd expanded edition. A. Ziemsen Verlag, Wittenberg Lutherstadt 1978, DNB  790002426 , p. 11, 14, 15, 19 .
• Bruno Dürigen : Poultry farming. Handbook and textbook on racial studies, breeding, care and keeping of domestic, farm and park poultry. Berlin, P. Parey, 1923, Pinguin-Typus (upright, steep form), pp. 365–373. (1st volume, species and races. Online )