Pekin Grimaud Hybrid Ducks

All our Pekin breeders are purchased from Grimaud Freres, a French poultry breeding company. Their first breeding efforts were with Muscovy and Mule ducks but quickly expanded to Pekin ducks, rabbits, geese, pigeons, turkeys and chickens. The strain of Pekin ducks we use is the Grimaud Hybrid Pekin, Strain 53. This is a fast growing, feed efficient duck. It is of 100% Pekin blood. It is called a hybrid as we cross males from their Line 50 with the females from their Line 30 to produce the commercial duckling we sell. The Line 30 ducks are a good sized bird and lay a high number of fertile eggs. The Line 50 ducks are a very large duck with outstanding meat characteristics. We sell from 5,000 to 12,000 ducklings per week of this strain for meat production.

Commercial Meat and Egg Production Brochure

If you are looking for locally raised duck, goose, or chicken, visit our Local Meat Producers page.

If you raise meat birds from Metzer Farms for sale in your area, we will add your farm to this list. Instructions for requesting your listing are also on the Local Meat Producers page.

Following is the standard production performance of the Grimaud Hybrid:

• Age at slaughter, days 49
• Live weight, lbs. 8.1
• Eviscerated weight, lbs. 5.26
• Feed conversion 2.29
• Mortality, % 2.5
• Breast filet, % 25.5