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Urgent: Does this duckling look distressed?
Hi all, I've got a few muscovy eggs that are on day 32, one of which has been externally pipped for 40 hours. She hasn't made any progress in a long while, and on a previous hatch, I lost a duckling in similar circumstances. I peeled back the shell a bit so that she could help herself hatch...- Lugh
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- Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
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Duck tumor? Infected feather cyst? Pics inside.
One of the wild ducks that likes to visit my flock has a nasty looking cyst or tumor growing out ofher head. Any idea what it might be. It flops around and is attached by only a small strip of flesh, but she's had it for months and it's getting bigger and nastier looking. [/IMG]- Lugh
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- Forum: Emergencies / Diseases / Injuries and Cures
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Anyone have experience with prolapsed cloacae?
Hi everyone, I have a 15-month old muscovy female who has a partially prolapsed cloaca. I'm not terribly worried about it as she's at the vet getting treatment, but I would like to hear from others who have had ducks that have suffered from the same condition. How did everything end up working... -
Time for some new threads
Am I the only one who thinks it's time to retire some of these threads that have several thousand replies in them? I'm not saying punt the topic, but at least start the threads over again so that there aren't a prohibitive number of posts for new voices in the conversation that may be put off by... -
Something seems to be wrong with my muscovy duck -- videos inside
Hi everyone, This is Fergus, my 1-year old muscovy duck. I hatched her myself and she lives on the lake behind my house, but tonight I noticed some unusual behavior out of her that has now been going on for about five hours. Symptoms are: 1) She doesn't make her usual trilling noise 2) She... -
Banding ducks?
Does anyone band their ducks for ID or tracking purposes? I have two muscovies that I hatched and wanted the neighbors to know that they are pets, not wild. Plus the microchip taking would be pretty cool. Thoughts? -
Officially the cutest thing I've ever seen. Pics inside.
I have an 11-month old muscovy duck who is currently on her second brood. First time she successfully hatched and raised 13 ducklings, but this time through, we only let her sit on three eggs, of which I am pretty sure only one will hatch, maybe two. The first hatched yesterday and, while mom... -
Anatidaephobia thread
Anatidaephobia. Something most of us struggle with on a daily basis-- the overwhelming fear that you are being watched by a duck. For me, it's more than a fear, it's a reality that never ends. IT. NEVER. ENDS. -
Dealing with Egyptian Geese
Hi all-- Two Egyptian geese have taken up residence on a pond behind my house and, besides honking up a holy racket at all hours of the early morning, they attack my muscovies around feeding time. A town ordinance prevents me from unloading a .40 caliber hollow point on them, as I was first...- Lugh
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- Forum: Predators and Pests
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Broody muscovy stole another's nest and eggs!
Hi all-- I have two hens that are about 6 months old. One is laying and is acting broody, the other is not laying but broody. The non-laying hen has stolen the nest of the laying hen and is sitting on the eggs, meanwhile the other laying hen isn't done laying! She went over to the nest this... -
25 eggs in my muscovy's nest... will she EVER sit?
Hi all-- One of my 6-month old muscovies has been laying up a storm. Each morning, she returns to a small duck shack I built for nesting purposes and lays another egg-- we are now up to 25. I know they can lay up to 30, but good lord, is she ever going to just stop and sit on them or will she... -
Broody muscovy question
Hi all-- I have a six month-old muscovy duck that has recently started laying eggs in the shack I had built for her and her sister when I hatched them. She's at the point where she returns to the shack every morning around 7am, just before dawn, and lays an egg (she sleeps on a platform I... -
Muscovy nests keep getting attacked
Hi all, I have a small flock of Muscovies that live around a body of water behind my house. Two of them were hatched and raised by me after their nest was attacked (guess the raccoon had had enough eggs to eat so he left two behind), and now my two, as well as the other two females, have... -
Purina Game Bird Chow safe for muscovies? (pics inside!)
Hi all-- Did a forum search and couldn't find an answer-- my local feed store suggested I move on from the Purina Game Bird Flock Raiser feed that I was giving to my 4.5 month old muscovies to Game Bird Chow - Growth and Plumage. I've been feeding it to them for a few days and they seem to... -
When do muscovies start to hiss?
Hi all-- I have two muscovies at 4 months. They grew their flight feathers about a month ago and are great fliers, their caruncling is growing in very quickly, but they still haven't started to hiss yet. I was pretty sure that both were male, but they still make trilling noises-- they actually... -
Question regarding muscovy mating-- can a duck be confused?
In a nutshell, I hatched two muscovies from an abandoned nest and they are both approaching 4 months old. They are pretty much the same size at this stage and, due to the fact that they are nearly the size of an adult hen at this point, figured that they are both males. Today, while swimming... -
Moving 7-week muscovies outside
Hi all-- I recently rescued two muscovy eggs from an abandoned nest (mom abandoned it after a raccoon attack) and hatched both eggs. The ducklings are now 7 weeks old and, after spending those first seven weeks in a large shower in an extra bathroom, we moved them outside to a 7'x6' covered... -
Longshot muscovy duck egg questions
I have been reading this forum for quite a while but haven't yet posted. To be as brief as possible, a muscovy laid eggs near my house in South FL and hadn't sat on them yet when a raccoon destroyed the nest. She abandoned it, but one egg was left, which I took and put in a homemade incubator...