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    Free range muscovies, pinned at night, & cannot locate nest

    So this is our first time having ducks in any capacity. We have twelve muscovies, two drakes and ten hens. Earlier in the year we were getting 8 eggs a day for like a solid two months. I had to block off access underneath the porch because the girls suddenly stopped laying in the coop (we let...
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    Muscovy Ducks & First Eggs

    We have a small flock of 12 birds (2 drakes, 10 hens). For the most part, our drakes have their own ladies and they treat each other, and their gals, very nicely. They’ve been playing hop on top with their gals for two months now, and everyone was born the start of the second to last week of...
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    Muscovy Drake Genetics - Who to Keep?!

    So I have a serious problem. I have two favorite drakes in my group of 20 ducks. We have seven confirmed drakes, giving us a total of 13 hens, and our original plan was to keep one male for those 13 gals. But now I have a struggle. See one drake is pied, very lovely splattering of black and...
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    Drakes & Hens - Help Me Guess

    We have 20 muscovies and I /think/ perhaps 8 drakes among them but some are just so gosh darn hard to tell with. All are nine weeks old. Some are making the classic muscovy male sound and others are quiet as can be. We will be sending all extra males to freezer camp and keeping one (either the...
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    Muscovy Ducks & Cannibalistic Behavior

    Hello wonderful people! Newbie here, first time owning ducks and we wanted to have a breed that served the purpose of providing eggs and meat so we went with muscovies. We have twenty ducks and they will be roughly 8 weeks old (give or take a few days, some hatched from a separate nest a little...
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