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  1. Tessaturtle

    Muscovy breeding/feeding question

    We have been breeding Muscovy for 3 years now and have had a pretty successful side business of selling them as meat and pets (ducklings). We keep 3 males and 9 hens as our breeding stock and sell off all the others or process for meat. We had a really long and hard winter so the hens started...
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    HELP! Muscovy's dying in the cold

    We have two Muscovy's die in the last two days. The first one was clear hypothermia (my first experience with it, but it was pretty obvious), it occurred yesterday morning, which was right after the -10 to -20 degree night with winds blowing at blizzard strength. The first one was still alive...
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    Male or female Muscovy duckling (also what color pattern IS THIS?!)

    Hi all. We are having a difficult time determining how many males and females we have out of our group of 7, five 1/2 week old Muscovy ducklings. One is very obvious he is a boy as is neck sticks out further, his legs are tall and thick, and he is just much bigger than his siblings. One of them...
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    Male or Female?

    Ok, last year I was very successful in being able to accurately tell what sex the muscovy were between 4-6 weeks of age. I am having a tough time with this group. They are just over 4 weeks old and a couple are obviously male. But the rest I'm just not sure of. I have buyers waiting for as soon...
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    Muscovy coloring/genetics question

    Is it rare to have a completely white duckling from parents who are not white? The mom is chocolate with some white mostly sprinkled on her chest and head. There are 2 possible fathers, one drake is light chocolate, the other is black with a couple of small white marks on his chest. I expected...
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    Buff Cochin can't stand up

    Our buff Cochin Maybelle got stomped on by our rooster. I witnessed it, he mated her and then kept coming back to her and repeatedly, violently stomping her, flattening her into the ground. He is not like that with any of the other hens, but this is the 2nd time he has done this to Maybelle. I...
  7. Tessaturtle

    is this hen egg bound?

    We recently noticed one of our hens standing and walking with her feet far apart. She pants when she is in the nest box, and she looks really heavy. She feels very solid and big underneath. I tried to take some pics to see if anyone here can tell us if she is egg bound. One of the days she also...
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    Uh-oh, Rooster?? Please take a peek and let us know!

    Well, one of our pullets in our youngest batch of chicks (14 weeks old now) is twice the size of its "siblings", has tree trunks for legs, has a much bigger comb and waddles than the others of the same age, and has a very different feathering pattern than its mates. Is one of our "sexed"...
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    Dwarf Muscovy Duckling?

    Need some others opinions and/or expertise! One of our ducklings that were hatched from a batch of 10 is significantly smaller than the rest of the batch. I don't know whats wrong with it, or if its a dwarf or what. They are 4 weeks old, but this one looks like its only about 2 weeks old. It...
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    Advice needed and welcomed!

    Our Rouen hens and Call duck hens had an egg roll out of their nest while moving about a few weeks ago. We werent sure how long it had been out so we through it in the incubator just for kicks - well it has now just hatched this morning. The eggs the girls have been sitting on outside are also...
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    Muscovy Drake Eating Egg/Embryo

    ANyone else ever had this problem? I witnessed my Muscovy drake (who is usually very sweet) raid one of the Rouen's nests when she was off of it for her break. He came out of the duck house carrying the egg, set it down and started eating it. I rushed in and stopped him, but the embryo was...
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    Any guesses on sex of these Muscovy ducklings

    Hi There, Hoping to get some educated guesses on the sex of our Muscovy ducklings that we had incubated. They are 3 weeks old with birthdates of 4/29 through 5/3, and they all have the same father and then there are two mothers who laid the eggs (no way to tell whose was whose). These are our...
  13. Tessaturtle

    Male Call Duck Relentlessy Attacking

    Will a Call Duck keep attacking until he has killed another duck? We have a mixed flock that has always gotten along with each other (although this will be their first spring together as most were born after spring last year). We have 3 male Call Ducks who were always thick as thieves...
  14. Tessaturtle

    Help! Necrotic skin mass?

    I had posted a couple of weeks ago about losing 2 Buff Cochins to prolapsed vent (and subsequent picking by the flock) and then we segregated 2 more buff cochins when we noticed a very large, bare swollen area under the vent of one and the starting of a large bare spot under the vent of the...
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    2 Buff Cochins Dead, 2 more Crated, what is going on?!

    We had 5 Buff Cochins and are now down to 3, with two of those currently confined in a large dog crate in the basement. I posted a few days ago about having to put down the first one due to severe picking after, what we have now learned, was a prolapsed vent. THe second one then seemed to...
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    Is this a prolapsed vent? Help! *graphic pic*

    We had to put one chicken down last weekend due to being pecked nearly to death by the other chickens. We noticed she had something hanging out of her vent and thought it was intestines. Now, we found another Buff Cochin with the same thing hanging out, but this time we noticed it early enough...
  17. Tessaturtle

    Call Duck walks backwards at times, help!

    One of our young call duck hens walks backwards sometimes, kind of like doing the moonwalk. One time she also seemed to be moving her head and neck up and down while doing it. At first I thought it was part of her mating dance because when I witnessed it, she then immediately walked forward to...
  18. Tessaturtle

    Lost a call duck today - wondering what killed it....help?

    We lost one of our female call ducks today "Pipsqueak". We are wondering what may have killed her, we have a hunch, but don't have proof, hopefully someone on here can help? We had 12 ducks total, 3 Rouen's, 1 Pekin, 3 Muscovy, and 5 Call Ducks. I believe I may have posted a pic sometime on...
  19. Tessaturtle

    Lost a call duck today - wondering what killed it....help?

    We lost one of our female call ducks today "Pipsqueak". We are wondering what may have killed her, we have a hunch, but don't have proof, hopefully someone on here can help? We had 12 ducks total, 3 Rouen's, 1 Pekin, 3 Muscovy, and 5 Call Ducks. I believe I may have posted a pic sometime on...
  20. Tessaturtle

    Dogs with the ducks and/or chickens

    I don't know if many dogs get along with the ducks or chickens, or leave them alone; but just thought I would share a pic of one of mine. We might have done too good of a job training him to be around the "feathered friends"...he now seems to think he is one of them! Here he is walking around...
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