2LearnBreed
Orpington Duck
Anas platyrhynchos
A breed of Duck, from United Kingdom
Breed of domestic duck.
- Family
- Anatidae
Keeping
How it is kept
For Duck generally
No keeping details are recorded for this breed yet, so these are the species’.
Kept for
- Eggs
- Meat
- Temperament
- Sociable and chatty; happiest in a group
- Mature weight
- 1.5–4.5 kg
- Lifespan
- 8–12 years
- Incubation
- 28 days
- Forage
- Good foragers of grass, slugs and insects, but they need a balanced waterfowl or poultry feed as well. Drinking water must be deep enough for them to dip their whole head.
- Housing
- A dry, predator-proof house for the night with deep bedding on the floor, since ducks do not perch. Low fencing keeps in the heavy breeds that cannot fly.
- Good to know
- Ducks need water to clean their eyes and nostrils, but not necessarily a pond. They turn wet ground to mud quickly, so plan for drainage and move their area if you can. Ducklings raised without a mother should not swim unsupervised until they are fully feathered.
The record
Breed facts
Size
- Weight (female)
- up to 2.5 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2016 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Weight (male)
- up to 3 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2016 (source, opens in a new tab)
Production
- Eggs per year
- up to 80 eggsBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2016 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Egg weight
- up to 70 gBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2016 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Eggshell colour
- Green, white, white to greenBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2016 (source, opens in a new tab)
Status
- Germany (BLE) risk status
- Category III (endangered)BLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2016 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Population
- 291 breeding females, 133 breeding males in GermanyBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2016 (source, opens in a new tab)
Photos, videos and notes
From keepers
Full detailsevery field on the record, to copy
- Name
- Orpington Duck
- Slug
- orpington-duck
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Anatidae
- Genus
- Anas
- Species
- platyrhynchos
- Cultivar
- Orpington Duck
- Wikidata QID
- Q4985612
- Origin country
- United Kingdom
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 52