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    Ducky Drama - Disappearing Ducks

    While these ducks were my first time owning anything with feathers I did do a good bit of research before getting them. I selected muscovies because my primary motivation was pest control and liked that they were also a meat bird and good mothers. I have been delighted with my experience (other...
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    Ducky Drama - Disappearing Ducks

    SO do we think clipping his other wing would help? I will see what I can do about putting a roof of some sort on the pen - but it would make it very difficult to clean because I'll have to bend over anytime I go in there. Not that one duck will make it too messy thank goodness. I don't think he...
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    Ducky Drama - Disappearing Ducks

    I had 6 muscovy ducks about 8 months old. They free ranged on my 19 acre farm which is well away from the road and enjoyed the stream running through it. At night I shut them in a shed. They were very cooperative with this arrangement aside from the hens who decided to start nesting in hidden...
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    Breeding Projects -- Waterfowl

    I got my 6 muscovies last Easter so this will be my first time breeding anything. I'm hoping to set up a breeding pen for my blue girl and Blue pied drake and get some silver babies! I may try incubating a few eggs in my classroom for my visually impaired students to experience. I will be taking...
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    What do you do when you find a hidden nest?

    I thought my 8 month old Muscovy girls were done laying when the really cold weather hit. (They are my first experience with farm birds.) When it warmed up for a few days I did get two more eggs but didn't think any more of it because they weren't looking like they were hurrying off like they...
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