I had not even thought about that, but since you mentioned it, they were almost all boys! Snake turned out to be male, and out of about 11 muscovy babies total, only 3 were females, which I did think seemed odd. Maybe there is something to the temperature thing. I hatched another 8 Muscovy...
Unfortunately, my little baby only made it a couple more weeks and then passed away suddenly. It is so heartbreaking when these things happen. I don't want to leave anyone sad, so I am posting a picture of the little one's siblings who are growing up big, beautiful and strong! Sorry, the...
Unfortunately, my little baby did not make it. It ended up having severe respiratory distress that came on suddenly and it passed a few minutes after that started. I recently hatched 7 more muscovy babies, and again I had one that was not growing. This one had no weird respiratory issues...
Here are a couple pics of my beautiful babies! I have 2 male and 5 female Silver Mallards. Please excuse the molting male in the last pictures. He is usually gorgeous too, but looking a little dumpy right now lol! The bigger duck is either a silver or a lavendar Cayuga, I think. I am not 100...
I have three muscovy ducklings that are almost 4 weeks old today. One of the little ducklings is about 1/3 of the size of the other two, maybe even smaller! At 4 weeks old, it still looks like a little baby not much bigger than one hatched a few days ago. It has had a couple strange issues since...