Myrtle (The hen who got rolled underneath a car on the road last year) Has started laying again!! YAY, she truly is a miracle Muscovy!! Twitch, the chocolate, is setting on a dozen eggs.. yes she rebrooded, after trying to hatch 2 in January's cold. But now Mom slipped Pekin eggs underneath her instead of scovies... Imagine her surprise when they pop out a week earlier. The blue still wants nothing to do with Naughty. THe other Pied scovy, Gertrude, is becoming a Houdini duck. We have a gate on their wooden pen, where the wire only comes up to waist height instead of our chins (so like 2.5-3 feet as opposed to 4.5 ish.) I think she jumps it! And naughty is still a goofy boy.
I have a question though aout the feathering. I know we hatch out a few I want to say barred or rippled ducklings each year. But as they molt they lose it entirely. . I know some of you have really beautiful barred adults. How do you keep them like that? lol. I don't think we're breeding anymore scovies, We'll get rid of the blue this year sometime if she still doesn't breed with naughty, and then the rest are just pets. Mom likes the pekins. But I'm just curious.
I have a question though aout the feathering. I know we hatch out a few I want to say barred or rippled ducklings each year. But as they molt they lose it entirely. . I know some of you have really beautiful barred adults. How do you keep them like that? lol. I don't think we're breeding anymore scovies, We'll get rid of the blue this year sometime if she still doesn't breed with naughty, and then the rest are just pets. Mom likes the pekins. But I'm just curious.