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Thanks. What about the one in the first photo. A male I think and a bit younger. Is he a true muscovy?

They are in an area of about 2000 sq.metres along with chickens, geese and ducks. We feed them a grain mix/layers mash in the mornings and corn in the afternoons, and throw in grass from the garden. There are orange trees and olive trees in the pen. This has not changed. The symptons are...

We have managed to rear more turkeys this year than the last two and I thought we had got them past the dangerous time. They are about 4-5 months now. But in the last week we have had 3 die. My husband 'opened them up' to see if he could see why they died and noticed that their intestines...

This year we had a muscovy drake and a mallard drake and lots of ducklings from our muscovy ducks. It has been easy to identify some of the youngsters that are cross breed, but there are some I am not sure about. We have some white ones, are these defiintely true muscovy ducks? They have none...

Thanks for the advice :-)

One of my broody hens managed to get out of her brooder, but could not get back in. She had possibly been off the eggs for 11 - 12 hours. It is day 5 of her incubation. The temperature here is today is 25C in the shade. Will her eggs still be viable or should I replace them?

Unfortunately it is not possible for anyone else to do the mist and cool for me on those days. Thanks for your response.

I have started misting and cooling my muscovy and other duck eggs as directed, but there will be 3 days that I am away and they will not be done. These are, unfortunately, probably the most important 3 days i.e. Duck days 22-24 and corresponding Muscovy final pre-hatch days. Would it be a...

We have a chicken, Dolly, with 6 eggs due to hatch on 8th May, an incubator with 44 turkey eggs and 4 chicken eggs due to hatch on 10th May, a turkey, Dilly, with 12 eggs due to hatch on 17th May and another turkey, Oprah, with 14 eggs due to hatch on 21st May. We have some'candling' to do...