Domestic duck, known as duck in ancient my country, is a kind of poultry that is fed in large quantities in the world. Domestic ducks are domesticated from wild ducks. Due to the lack of data, the time of duck domestication is still not very clear. According to research by scholars, it was China and Southeast Asia that first domesticated wild ducks into poultry. Later came Europe, America and Egypt. There are records about duck raising in the earliest ancient book "Erya" in my country. According to research, my country has begun raising ducks in prehistoric times and is one of the first countries in the world to domesticate wild ducks into domestic ducks.
Domestic ducks have much less variation than domestic chickens. Although their feathers are very different from wild ducks, the four central tail feathers of the drake curl upward, just like the drake of the mallard duck. Sometimes the feathers on the body are also very different. resemblance. Scholars now generally believe that mallards are wild species of domestic ducks. As early as 1184 AD, in the book "Erya Wings" written by Luo Yuan, it was clearly pointed out that the duck is the mallard. Mallard ducks are widely distributed in Asia, Europe and North America.
Some of the domestic ducks raised in the Yangtze River Basin of my country may have been domesticated from spotted duckbills. This kind of duck is characterized by a black bill with a yellow tip, so some people also call it a yellow-billed duck. It is distributed in eastern Asia. It is widely distributed in the coastal provinces of my country in winter, and some live in central and southern China all year round. As for the domestic ducks in the Americas, according to research, they were domesticated from the white-browed duck.
There are not as many varieties of ducks as there are chickens. The Peking duck, which has been carefully cultivated by the working people of our country for a long time, is a world-famous fine breed. The Peking duck was imported to the United States in 1874. Later, it was introduced to the United Kingdom from the United States, and now it can be found in almost all countries in the world.
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