mulard
moulard

About half of the eggs hatch into mulard ducks.

Mallard and Mulard ducks are both lean, with a rich, musky taste.

The mulard is commercially produced on farms for meat and foie gras.

The Mulard should be roasted or broiled, since braising tends to make it stringy.

The mulard (or moulard) is a domestic duck hybrid of Pekin and muscovy ducks.

After hatching, the Mulard ducklings are sexed.

Therefore, although the domestic goose might well be adapted to store food before migration, it is less likely that the Mulard hybrid duck has the same potential.

Magret refers specifically to the breast of a mulard or Barbary duck that has been force fed to produce foie gras.

François Mulard, Neoclassical French painter (born 1769)

It has been noted that the Muscovy duck is non-migratory, and both the Pekin and the mulard hybrid can not fly.

She called it "her little corner of paradise," said Claudine Mulard, a Los Angeles-based friend who had known Dedieu since the 1970s.

The Muscovy duck can be crossed with mallards in captivity to produce hybrids, known as mulard duck ("mule duck") because they are sterile.

Some specialty breeds have become more popular in recent years, notably the Muscovy duck, and the mulard duck (a sterile hybrid of Pekins and Muscovies).

Strictly speaking, by analogy to hybrids between horses and donkeys, the term mulard or moulard should be reserved for offspring where the parental drake is a muscovy and the duck is a pekin.

The relatively new Mulard breed used in foie gras production seems more prone to developing lesions in the area of the sternum when kept in small cages, and to bone breakage during transport and slaughter.

After measuring a range of physiological parameters in male Mulard ducks, it was concluded in one study that the acute stress caused by force feeding is similar at the beginning and end of the commercial production of foie gras.

Dedieu had recently been treated for cancer and was also taking medication for a heart ailment, "which is why we freaked out when we found out" about the kidnapping, said Mulard, who works for the French newspaper Le Monde.

The AVMA (Animal Welfare Division) when considering foie gras production stated "The relatively new Mulard breed used in foie gras production seems to be more prone than its parent breeds to fear of people..."