Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[Going Quackers]

Yeppers

Very nice! reminds me of some of mine.

 

[Going Quackers]

I'll update on my last clutch of the season..

Mabel who is mama is the chocolate and white... the rest are the "kids" of coarse most are boys... 3 and 1 ducklet so she looks like she's shrunk. she;s the bird to the far left lol Pretty sure i have a chocolate drake, he's beside his sister...and yes that is a solid white with a cap, that is chocolate too..

 

[Going Quackers]

and one more this is my most pricey duck(bought her as a 5-6mth old for a lot of money lol) , a solid black i've had her a year now.. she sadly didn't have a successful clutch but did obtain one, a chocolate daughter.

This is licorice and buttons(the baby)

 

[Going Quackers]

Got 3 ducklings (white muscovy) at what age can I tell if they are boys are girls? and how do I do that? I'm sort of new to raising ducklings

If you are not used to seeing them? probably more in the almost 6wk old range... all size, boys are bigger, girls are not, sometimes you almost have this feminine look to the face as well. Females are also very agile, drakes are clunky and bulky.

for instance in this clutch, top bird is a female, the rest all drakes...

 

[Going Quackers]

Chickens got nothing on quacking ducks, geese, guineas and peafowl, lol.

-Kathy

Peafowl win. geez those are LOUD and guineas wow. MY calls are something else though.

 

[Going Quackers]

What about call ducks? I have some females that can be VERY ear piercing when they want their breakfast!

worse is in when they are in your arms and do that! deafening.

 

[elsfieldchickens]

I recently visited a friend down the road who keeps lots of waterfowl and thought I would share some pictures i took

 

[Going Quackers]

Hope you enjoy

this is the only one left out of the 14, on the far right he wouldn't let me get a good picture

so sweet! i love when their that small, they grow so fast though.

 

[Going Quackers]

I recently visited a friend down the road who keeps lots of waterfowl and thought I would share some pictures i took

very nice! and wow a black and white female, never had that here i only get males.

 

[Double Kindness]

In the spring I would like to add a trio of french white muscovy ducks, but I forgot the name of the one place I found that had them. Does anyone know? I guess I have a thing for black and white birds lol, as I have all these white bresse, ayam cemani, silver laced wyandottes, barred rocks, white leghorns, and my muscovies are black and smoke? Silver?

I did notice one of my black females doesn't have patches of white feathers on her head like the others?