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We have 7 week old purebred Californian babies. They are three girls who are going to be 4 H bunnies. Mama was rebred 2 weeks ago and has little "graplets" palpable inside. She is 7 months old (this was her first litter) and currently weighs 12 pounds. Dad is 8 months old and weighs 8...

We have a pedigreed Californian Buck, a purebred Californian Doe, and a pedigreed NZW Doe. Our Californian Doe's first litter is 5 1/2 weeks old. There are only three, but they are big and healthy. One is going to a friend's son for his birthday, the other two are going to be 4-H bunnies. Our...

Steve, we looked at your web site. Love your pics! We also are raising rabbits. Californian and Californian/New Zealand cross. Just starting with the rabbits for meat. We are trying to be as sustainable as possible, here, too. The ducks are great but we thought it would be nice to have a...

Our older bird was not tough at all! I cut half of the breast up into 1 1/2 inch pieces, shook them in a plastic bag with Italian seasoned breadcrumbs, garlic powder, salt and pepper, and baked them for about 20 minutes at 350degrees. The kids gobbled them up! The other half, we ground up and...

We may build a plucker down the road. This is our first year with Muscovies, but honestly, they are so tasty skinless (and not greasy at all!), that we have only skinned them so far. I have plucked other, smaller, water birds/ducks and do not really want to do multiple Muscovies by hand, LOL...

We had Muscovy duck for a big family dinner this weekend. I roasted them in oven bags with a sauce of pureed cranberry sauce, orange juice, and a couple of tablespoons of cornstarch. They were tender and delicious (they were whole, skinless birds). The oven bags kept the meat from drying out...

Love pheasant! Haven't had it in years, but lots of it growing up as my dad was a hunter. Also, love your quote!

You have beautiful ducks! Congratulations!

The law is on hold. You can visit the website for the Federal Fish and Wildlife department for details. They haven't decided exactly what they want to do, yet. My sister had an older, lone goose who had been very lonely. She planned to raise Muscovies to eat, and the goose was thrilled to...

Thanks! There's my "not so computer literate!" problem. For some reason I thought it had been updated since then. I appreciate the info!

We have Muscovies (different breed, I know) and our oldest babies are 12 weeks old. They have been "peeping" less and less since about 8 weeks, but I still hear peeps out of both sexes occasionally. Funny sound coming from a 10 pound male! They are more likely to make that baby peeping noise...

Thanks for the info!

Our almost 10 week old male Muscovies are already getting aggressive with the females and each other. We planned to process at 12 weeks (the males) but we decided to butcher a couple today. They both dressed out (skinless) at 3 1/2 pounds. Our 12 week old males were granted a reprieve because...

Looks like a girl to me. The foot is large, but the leg doesn't look large enough to be a male Muscovy at 5 1/2 weeks.

The white head gene is partially dominant. Sometimes it will come out, sometimes it won't. We had babies a few weeks similar to these. Their mama is a barred blue with a white head. The daddy was black with a white bib. Even though the babies started out looking a lot like yours, now (as 8...