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    Muscovies: barred or rippled?

    I'm sorry, I'll have to take pics later, but I'm trying to figure out the coloration of my juvi muscovies. The father was lavender, and the mother was a piebald chocolate. A black&white and a blue fawn piebald mother could have also contributed to the nest (all three are related). These ten...
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    Keeping breeds together

    Right now I have three muscovy ducks, a muscovy drake, and three other ducks (Pekin, Khaki Cambell, and Runner) in a 17x17 foot pen. A friend has recently offered us a runner drake. Would we have to build a new pen in order to keep the two drakes separate? It'd be nice to not have to build a...
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    Pond ideas

    Right now our ducks are using a plastic kiddie pool, but we're having some problems. It's so large that I can't clean it easily so it's constantly green, and our bright sun is really hard on the plastic. We have pond liner left over from another project, but it seems like an in-ground pond would...
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    Goat 4-H question

    At our county fair a couple weeks ago, I watched some of the dairy goat showmanship. Most of the goats had not been milked that morning. Some were so engorged that milk dripped on the ground as they walked. Is there something in the requirements about not milking your goat, or were the kids...
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    How do I find 4h marketing information?

    We are looking at getting a five-acre property in another year-ish. My husband's insisting that we have a project that would actually pay for itself, so I'm looking into ideas. Our area is very active with 4h livestock, so I'm trying to find some kind of animal I can breed and tap into that...
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    Muscovy duck color

    What color is this little drake? We're guessing he's a barred black--all of the adults on the property where we got him, and half of the babies, were pure black. Thanks. He's the closest in the bottom picture there (the girls to either side of him are a chocolate and a blue fawn).
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    Basic genetics questions?

    I'm just trying to understand. I thought that my barred rooster, in with a variety of mix-breed hens, would have sex-linked babies, females barred, males not. We ended up with a barred female (mother unknown), a barred male (mother either white or blue), and a buff female (mother either white or...
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    waterer for babies running with adults?

    I have a momma duck with two babies (I assume the question would be the same for chickens), and I'm worried about the babies getting access to the water. I don't think they can reach a very deep container, but when I added a special shallow one the adults come and drink the water too quickly, so...
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    Broody muscovy questions

    We just had our first hatch, and I have a few questions. We have two ducks who are sisters, and they were exposed to our muscovy drake and also a mallard derivative cross (Rouen/Pekin, I think). The first of our hens went broody and sat on the nest for about a week, and then her sister joined...
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    Pioneer dog names

    For a boy, I'd want to name a dog Pioneer and call him "Pi" for short, but I'm drawing a blank for similar girl names. I thought of Legacy and Rocky Ridge (Laura Ingalls Wilder's eventual home), but couldn't find a cute nickname to go with them. Maybe Bonnet. Any other ideas? This would be an...
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    What color are these Muscovies?

    I get to pick out two or three of these little guys next week! The breeder says that the father is "blue (grey)" and the mother is either white with blue eyes, or black and white. I only have these tiny pictures so I'm not sure if you can tell anything, but I thought it would be worth asking.
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    Do you need a muscovy drake for the hens to go broody?

    I found some muscovy ducklings for sale that we're going to pick up in a couple weeks. I was thinking I'd get a couple ducks and then buy some extra eggs for them to incubate when they're older, in order to get an unrelated drake. Should I buy a drakeling with them, or would the girls go broody...
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    How hot is too hot to put duckings and chicks outside?

    I read a lot about beating the cold, but not much about extreme heat. I've been wanting to get Muscovy ducks, and sometimes hatch out chicks, but I'm worried that we're too close to the hot season (temperatures over 100 from about May-Sept). On one hand, it doesn't seem like a good idea to put...
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    Incubating Muscovy duck eggs-- where did we go wrong?

    Posted in the duck section before, but I thought maybe this forum would have more help about incubating eggs. I've hatched chicks before with very good success. We started with some mallard/rouen/pekin cross eggs and had good success (all five fertile eggs survived), so we decided to try...
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    What did I do wrong? Incubating Muscovy duck eggs

    I have some ideas, but I wanted to check. We started with some mallard/rouen/pekin cross eggs and had good success (all five fertile eggs survived), so we decided to try muscovies to keep (instead of sell). We bought a large batch and ended up with 25 (in our still-air hovabator), because we...
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    Stopping parakeets from breeding

    We were given a pair of parakeets from a friend. We'd had them in the past, and even when we had male and female we could never get them to breed. Well, these two immediately got busy. After the first two clutches we planned to remove the nest box, but she started laying even before the last two...
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    Good website for muscovy duck colors?

    My eggs are hopefully hatching tomorrow. I've found some information on colors and some pictures, but do you know of any sites that show each color with pictures, preferably with both adults and ducklings?
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    Duckling with New Ducks Disease?

    I have a five day old Rouen/Pekin mix, hatched from some eggs my dad gave me--so this is my first time with ducks. This one had been wetter than the others. I noticed today she's smaller, with her head twisted to one side. She's got discharge from nose, mouth and eye. She was rolled over when I...
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    Looking for ideas for our muscovy duck pen

    I've got 25 muscovy eggs in the incubator right now. I'm thinking I'll sell/rehome/eat all but three or four (we figured we'd start with a lot of eggs since hatching is supposed to be difficult). We have a spot by the side of the house that has two sides of cement brick wall (I think it's about...
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    Gender on 7 week old Delawares?

    I'm guessing these four are girls, but I wanted to make sure. Sorry, these pictures aren't the greatest (especially of number 1). It's kind of hard when I'm not sure who's who anymore. I'll try and get better tomorrow. Here's the first one... The other three took off exploring together...
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