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Hi @JanetMarie Here's what our experience has shown us in answer to your questions: 1. They're long and sharp but I don't think they'd apply enough pressure to puncture the pond liner. Unless the liner is extremely thin. If that's the case, you'll probably want to wait till you have it covered...

They were just over 2 weeks old. We have a snapping turtle that's taken up home on the boundary between our property and our neighbors. The clutch was originally 16 ducklings. And the hobby farm we go through for birds initially and now just feed, were all out of Muscovy ducklings and our...

A huge X2 on that Ren2014! We separated 13 ducklings yesterday from the trio of Mommies that have been teaching them about life. There is one duck who I'm going to re-name Kamakazi! She got me 3 or 4 times with her claws. It's amazing how goofy looking ducks are when they normally walk, but...

I X2 what @jchny2000 posted. None of our drakes have ever exhibited behavior like that, even during the height of mating season. I've used pinning on a White Chinese gander and it has worked wonders. He's the nicest squealing pest we have now. And he doesn't think about lowering his head...

I'm not sure what that would be called. I would stick with absolutely flippin gorgeous! We've got 4 adolescents coming into their adult feathers and a couple of those are amazing as well. I'll try to get a pic or two up this week.

Here's two mommas taking the latest hatchlings out for the first time this morning. 15 new 'lings to chase around!!! Yea!!!

I can't address the social aspect but one thing I can answer is the tick problem. You just solved it with a Muscovy. They are bug eating machines!!! We only have Scovies so I'm not sure about other breeds but ours have almost completely eradicated the ticks on our property. So I say let her...

Your pen sounds like it does a good job but not sure of what type of predators live in your area. We lost a drake this past December after being left out at night. Wrong time to realize you have fox in the area. On that alone, I would provide shelter for them at night. Muscovy also are...

Muscovies have claws that always leave a mark on me. But I don't handle them that often. Maybe once or twice a year. Once you find the treat they like, stick with it and use it to your advantage! Ours will climb over each other to get dried meal worms. I am the pied piper on our property...

Thanks Ren2014!!!

So how's the hatching? That external pip reveal a cute little ball of fluff yet? We went out last night to put the kids to bed and found out our duck that went broody first was sitting on five new ducklings! She didn't put up too much of a fight when I took them inside and put them in the...

Very pretty birds @jchny2000 !!!

Duckling are $7 each when we have them and Duck eggs are $6 dozen.

I collected 70 eggs today. They are all fertile, our gals simply will not sit on them. I am looking to start selling them asap, of course friends, family, coworkers, facebookers and back yard chicken people get first dibs. What do you want to know? We are not breeders by trade, simply a small...

@mom of silkies we have 20+ eggs in an incubator right now. Not sure if we meet the requirements of breeder you're looking for but you're more than welcome to any that hatch and fertile eggs as well. We're collecting between 5 and 7 per day. Let me know if we're close enough and if you're...

Oh @Miss Lydia The pictures don't do them justice!! There are a couple of young ducks who are absolutely stunning!! The 2nd photo from the top has the two I'm talking about, the most right two. They are two of the most "purty" little girls!!! I can't wait till I can get some more photos...

No one is coming out today. They're all staying inside... And the pond is completely open!!!

Here are a few of the new Muscovies that we picked up last week. Pictures were taken the day we got home and began processing them, a mist of VetRX, plenty of food and water with vitamins and electrolytes. The garage was a mess and even more of a mess once we began to move them out to the duck...

My experience is the same as @hennible All of our Muscovies raise the feathers on their head, but I'm not seeing as an agressive trait as much as a social trait. And here's where things got really confusing for us - when we introduced 3 new ducklings to an existing flock, all three gravitated...