I’ve hatched out hundreds of ducklings but I’ve come across something strange in one of my ducks. I have a lavender Muscovy duck that is growing in its flight feathers. I started to notice feathers that look as if the feather instead of coming out of the quill, were rotting inside the quill...
Why do people fall in love with those big ugly ducks with the bumpy red faces? This video captures it perfectly.
This is from 2013 and the duck found a home. You might have seen it already but, here goes...
I had to edit it, I posted the shorter video at first, it didn't have many of the...
I just candled and counted the eggs under my broody muscovy. She has 29 developing eggs. The weather is in the 70 to 80 range and her nest is very deep and bowl shaped up tight around her, no eggs showing. Should I remove some? I don't want to compromise the whole hatch. For a muscovy, what is...
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In my last hatch I had some duckling patterns and colors that were new to me. I had a question about this one.
It looks to be a mix of wild type and dusky. The face has the eye stripe and you can see the darker v shape on the forehead like a wild type but the face is much darker than a...
Hello all, My hubby just got back from the feed store and told me that Sweet PDZ or stall fresh was out and will no longer be stocked because the parent PDZ company is closing, closed down.
I love the granular PDZ for my ducks, quail pen, brooder, artificial turf and cat litter box. It absorbs...
My young drake Hunter has a swollen head. I was out with the ducks for a few hours this evening, towards end of time I started noticing one side of Hunter's head seemed a little lopsided. As I was herding them into the night pen it struck me that Hunter's head was really swollen. I picked him...
Hi all. I've been asked about our fake grass with ducks. So far it's working great. We have had it about three years now with Ducks consistently on it. There is maintenance involved, daily.
First ducks, heat shocked potted plant and new turf.
All grown up, first swimming pool in the...
Temecula Ca. We have 3 young Muscovies for sale. Born July 4th.
2 are chocolate barred. One has blue eyes with declaire pied type markings. Very clear well defined, not blotchy.
1 solid chocolate with a white bib and already showing green sheen. Biggest of hatch.
These are very friendly hand...
We bought some feeder fish today and put them in our large black stock tank for the ducks. Sorry fish lovers. When the ducklings got in the water they swam and splashed normally at first. It took awhile for one to spot a fish, it gobbled it right down and than started looking in ernest. The...
I am just curious if there are others out there that like the gypsy black mask on muscovies? I think it looks neat. Tho I suppose a third option would be smooth red. I believe I read somewhere thats more european, not 100 % on that. I think in the older threads the very bumpy red was most...
I'm thrilled, and scared. I recently lost my oldest of 5 ducks to a predator, and the youngest girl turned out to be a draklet. Leaving me with 2 drakes and 2 hens. Long story short, I ordered eggs from Ebay.
12 eggs that might give me , lavender, silver, blue, chocolate and a color I have never...
I'm thrilled, and scared. I recently lost my oldest of 5 ducks to a predator, and the youngest girl turned out to be a draklet. Leaving me with 2 drakes and 2 hens. Long story short, I ordered eggs from Ebay.
12 eggs that might give me , lavender, silver, blue, chocolate and a color I have never...
Hi all, just wanted to share some tricks that work for me. I rake my modified Dog kennel coop with carpet rake found on amazon. I can get the sand very clean. It gathers up the poop and debris, leaving the sand groomed and in place. I than sift the pile with an ex-large half dome wire sifter I...