muscovy care

  1. M

    green pigeon peas (goya)

    i've got a 2 week six day old muscovy duckling, and i'm wondering if i can feed him goya green pigeon peas for niacin nutrition? might be a stupid question
  2. M

    Found an injured duck with maggots, healed the injury, but now concerned about fever. Help!

    Hello, A few days ago neighbors found an injured Muscovy duck and brought her to me because I have been raising ducks and chickens in my backyard. However, I have never had a bird with such a terrible injury; the duck seemed to have been bitten by something around her tail area, and the cuts...
  3. tingupinguu

    How cold is too cold to ducks?

    The temperatures are supposed to go down by about 19 degrees tomorrow, I would like to know how cold is too cold to ducks.
  4. tingupinguu

    How can I keep my Muscovy Ducks warm?

    The temperatures are expected to go below 20 degrees tomorrow, How can I keep my ducks warm for the cold?
  5. D

    Muscovy Setup and Rat Snake Safety

    Early this may I had 5 tiny muscovies ducklings. After I lost two, I put a large dog crate in my room that I keep the ducks in from 8:30pm-10:00am. During the day the ducklings are released into the duck run to frolic until the sun starts setting, rinse and repeat. I've kept this up for a couple...
  6. Qui1980

    Emergency! Please help, sick Muscovy hen!

    My girl Maisy has not been herself for over 24hours. Either standing or laying, not eating and barely drinking. I’ve tried yogurt, dog food, peas, greens, oyster shell, layers feed, meal worms… she has no interest. Her poop is all water. There is no fecal matter in it. She is drinking a bit, but...
  7. D

    Muscovy pushed hatching egg out of the nest!? What do I do?

    First time Muscovy hen has been sitting on nest and this morning we found a hatching egg pushed out of the nest. My teen pulled the egg out and brought it in, we took it back out right away but Mama started pecking at it. What do we do now?? Baby is moving and making sounds. I will attach picture.
  8. PancakesMom

    When should I break my broody Muscovy?

    New to this community! I have a 10 month old Muscovy named Pancake who is on her first egg laying/ broody cycle. We have a lot of Muscovys in the area and we found Pancake as an abandoned hatchling and could not bear to leave her behind so we took her in. She is mainly an indoor bird but we do...
  9. D

    Muscovy Duck Wanders Off

    I have raised two muscovy ducks from ducklinghood: a girl and a boy named Ducky and Dinger, (now about five months old.) I thought it was a good idea to get another lady for Dinger, so two weeks ago I brought home a new adult female muscovy named Jamboree. Two days ago, I woke up to find...
  10. emmabellybutton

    A call for help with my Muscovy baby

    Hi there, I have a 4 week old Muscovy duckling, his name is Bald Eagle because of the bald spot he was born with on his head. He's always been a little funny, has some balance issues, spacial awareness issues, possibly vision issues. He has started doing it less now but will look around over...
  11. emmabellybutton

    Muscovy Duckling, born with bald head, balance issues, cloudy eyes

    Okay there's a lot to say hah I have a 3 week old muscovy duckling who was born with a bald spot. When he was born up until now we've noticed that he's got some funny neurological things going on, he has a hard time with balance and spacial awareness, he'll look around the room over and over but...
  12. Gerby26

    My entire flock has wet feather?

    I have yearling muscovies and all of their oil glands just seem to not be working properly, some are partially working while two girls just are dry and have no oil at all, they have access to a full yard of grass and have fresh water to bathe in everyday. I don't know what to do about it, all I...
  13. chickmamat

    Muscovy Duck weird stomach bumps

    I posted about my Muscovy molting a couple weeks ago, but I can’t find that thread. We adopted her. She couldn’t walk well and we assumed she was over weight and her legs were weak from her previous living conditions. She has since lost weight and moves and runs well. I noticed though, a couple...
  14. D

    Muscovy Essential Items Kit

    Can anyone please provide a list of essential items to have on hand for both general Muscovy health maintenance and emergency intervention such as vitamins, apple cider vinegar, calcium for egg-laying females, dewormer, charcoal, correct size tubing, etc. with appropriate dosing and anything...
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