I had four guinea keets and LOVED them. Unfortunately, my fault, I forgot to lock them up one night and lost them. I am so sad. I had 2 standard dark colored ones and 2 lavender. They were great - but hadn't learned to fly - so they would follow the goats into a 3 sided fenced area and...
I had four guinea keets and LOVED them. Unfortunately, my fault, I forgot to lock them up one night and lost them. I am so sad. I had 2 standard dark colored ones and 2 lavender. They were great - but hadn't learned to fly - so they would follow the goats into a 3 sided fenced area and...
I had four guinea keets and LOVED them. Unfortunately, my fault, I forgot to lock them up one night and lost them. I am so sad. I had 2 standard dark colored ones and 2 lavender. They were great - but hadn't learned to fly - so they would follow the goats into a 3 sided fenced area and...
Hello all -
I used to be on BYC - but have been gone for about a year. In October 2011 we received an amazing job offer and jumped on it. At the time we were living in North Idaho and had a nice size flock of layin chickens along with about 20 muscovey ducks (and of course my goats, cows...
I am supposed to lock down my bator today on my muscovey eggs and I am totally nervous. I have the reservoirs full of water - but I am worried my humidity might go low without filling .... is this not an issue?
I started with 12 eggs - I am down to 6 - but I think I only have 2 or 3 live :-(...
This boy was hatched here at the farm on May 19th. As he has been loosing his baby feathers - he has become quite unique to me and I am thinking he is a barred blue - but not sure what the exact coloring would be. Any ideas? His mom is white with minimal black and I am assuming his dad is my...
I have swimming pools for my ducks out in the yard. Then I have one in the doe goat pen (where my 2 drakes live) and one in my "far" pen where my mastiffs run most of the time - but once in a while my does go over there to graze.
I have Muscovey and even though I clean the pools daily - the...
I know that I have not been around in some time, and I am sorry. It has been a little crazy .... we were going to move cross country - so out of my 19 muscovey and 40 + chickens, I kept 6 chickens and 6 ducks - all with homes when we were ready to move. Well spring came and went, and still no...
hello all! I have been gone for a while and I am so sorry - but I am excited to say that I am back!! At least for a bit. The farm is bursting at the seams with prego goats, babies being born, and now an impending move cross country. With that said - we have down sized both our chicken flock...
Well, I had someone that really wanted my chocolate drake and so I said that I would be willing to trade him for a hen. Well, we were finally able to meet up, and when they got here, she brought me 4 hens for my one drake. OH MY!!!
She brought me 4 summer hatchlings that are all black...
Is there a place that I can look at probability of color genetics of offspring on Muscovey? I have a lady that wants my Chocolate Pied Drake and wanted to know what the likelyhood would be for chocolate hatchlings if he mates her black pied or silver?
I was also curious on color combos for my...
I have an august hatchling with a broken left leg right at the "ankle". The bone has not broke the skin, but is extremely swollen and bruised on the inside. The little one is eating and drinking and I put it in a cage to keep predators away and to not have it running around (it RAN from me ...
So I own a goat farm, along with my 18 muscovey and 18ish chickens that are all free ranged.
We lease our land and our land over looks a lake. The landlord decided that he wanted to have the trees "topped" - ok no biggie. We explain that they actually need to be removed or they will cause...
ok - so my husband went out to feed the free range birds this morning and our sumatra was back. She comes and goes and tears around the property like a mad bird - so she just kind of does what she wants and just creates laughter for us when she comes around as she never goes less than 60 mph or...
I can't find my camera to get a good picture - but I noticed on my yearling hen (only layed one clutch) has a "pooch" hanging down under her .... reminds me of a fat pouch like a dog gets along the under abdomen. i have never seen a duck with this .... any ideas? I will try to get a pic with...
I have almost a dozen and a half muscovey (please see post to help me sex them, if you would) - but we are fixin to go into winter here in North Idaho. Last year I had only 2 hens and they just hung out in the hay barn with a big bowl of water and food - but I really don't want 16 ducks pooing...
I have 16 muscovey birds. I know that I have an adult female and an adult drake - but the other 14 I am not sure of .... can someone please help me?
Adult Hen - is she just molting her wings??
Adult Drake
and the ones I need help with Unknown hatch date - BUT had a few hatchling...
Well - I brought home 3 new ducklings last night and I really like them - they are so stinking cute! I am thinking that one is a Lavender pied, but can you please let me know ......
These are my ducklings from mid/late july -
And the ducklings that are just over 2 weeks...