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Karen, I love my Muscovies. They're perfectly fine to be housed with chickens. Other duck breeds are territorial, but Muscovies are sweet docile birds. I've focused on the breed for many reasons, including kid friendly

I've had a bit of everything. I settled with muscovies tho. All other domestic ducks are derived from mallards. Mallards are very territorial, and affected our entire flock. Muscovies aren't the prettiest, but I've found them to be the easiest keepers, sweetest, and most personable of ducks.

Thank you for the info! It's our first year raising birds and we're learning more every day! We've been blessed with 15 ducklings this year! I did sneak a peek at Gloria's nest, and she is setting 12! I'm preparing for half to hatch, like I did with Sweetie, our muscovy hen. She hatched out and...

Hi all! We bought a roo to watch over (and fertilize) our various breeds of hens. Well, he's doing his job above expectation! We have what was sold to us as an Aracauna, but I believe it's an Easter Egger. She's now gone broody on 12 of her green eggs. Does anyone know what to expect from the...

Thank you! I'm definitely leaning towards not, and hoping she begins laying

Thank you! I'm not sure how we'll do it yet. We raised some guinea keets with ducklings and it worked quite well. We're getting more keets in a day or 2 so we may wait and do that. The guineas keep the ducks moving around so the mess is spread over our 5 acres and not on front of the garage like...

Hi all. I'm starting to get into raising muscovies. I recently bought a breeding pair from someone and I just got 6 ducklings. The breeding pair is actively mating and according to the person I got them from she should begin laying . She is starting to nest in a coop I built. My question is...

Hi all! My family and I recently moved to a country home and decided those lil chicks at the local fleet supply store would be a great addition to our family. We ended up with 3 rir's, 2 gold stars, 3 aracauna I think, a polish, an unknown feather footed bantam, an unknown straight run chick...