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    Californian Meat Rabbit Grow-Out Thread... **Picture Heavy**

    We have 7 week old purebred Californian babies. They are three girls who are going to be 4 H bunnies. Mama was rebred 2 weeks ago and has little "graplets" palpable inside. She is 7 months old (this was her first litter) and currently weighs 12 pounds. Dad is 8 months old and weighs 8...
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    NZ / Rex Rabbit Grow Out

    We have a pedigreed Californian Buck, a purebred Californian Doe, and a pedigreed NZW Doe. Our Californian Doe's first litter is 5 1/2 weeks old. There are only three, but they are big and healthy. One is going to a friend's son for his birthday, the other two are going to be 4-H bunnies. Our...
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    Raising & Processing Muskovy Ducks

    Steve, we looked at your web site. Love your pics! We also are raising rabbits. Californian and Californian/New Zealand cross. Just starting with the rabbits for meat. We are trying to be as sustainable as possible, here, too. The ducks are great but we thought it would be nice to have a...
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    Raising & Processing Muskovy Ducks

    Our older bird was not tough at all! I cut half of the breast up into 1 1/2 inch pieces, shook them in a plastic bag with Italian seasoned breadcrumbs, garlic powder, salt and pepper, and baked them for about 20 minutes at 350degrees. The kids gobbled them up! The other half, we ground up and...
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    Raising & Processing Muskovy Ducks

    We may build a plucker down the road. This is our first year with Muscovies, but honestly, they are so tasty skinless (and not greasy at all!), that we have only skinned them so far. I have plucked other, smaller, water birds/ducks and do not really want to do multiple Muscovies by hand, LOL...
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    Raising & Processing Muskovy Ducks

    We had Muscovy duck for a big family dinner this weekend. I roasted them in oven bags with a sauce of pureed cranberry sauce, orange juice, and a couple of tablespoons of cornstarch. They were tender and delicious (they were whole, skinless birds). The oven bags kept the meat from drying out...
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    "Plucked" Pheasant, try it, you'll like it

    Love pheasant! Haven't had it in years, but lots of it growing up as my dad was a hunter. Also, love your quote!
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    Are these 2 female muscovy?new better side by sides as asked pics

    You have beautiful ducks! Congratulations!
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    got a muscovy duckling! a few questions

    The law is on hold. You can visit the website for the Federal Fish and Wildlife department for details. They haven't decided exactly what they want to do, yet. My sister had an older, lone goose who had been very lonely. She planned to raise Muscovies to eat, and the goose was thrilled to...
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    Oregon Fall Poultry Swap! 9/25/10 11am **all details on first post!*

    Thanks! There's my "not so computer literate!" problem. For some reason I thought it had been updated since then. I appreciate the info!
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    Do older ducklings still peep?

    We have Muscovies (different breed, I know) and our oldest babies are 12 weeks old. They have been "peeping" less and less since about 8 weeks, but I still hear peeps out of both sexes occasionally. Funny sound coming from a 10 pound male! They are more likely to make that baby peeping noise...
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    Oregon Fall Poultry Swap! 9/25/10 11am **all details on first post!*

    Thanks for the info!
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    Can muscovy and cayuga produce offspring?

    Our almost 10 week old male Muscovies are already getting aggressive with the females and each other. We planned to process at 12 weeks (the males) but we decided to butcher a couple today. They both dressed out (skinless) at 3 1/2 pounds. Our 12 week old males were granted a reprieve because...
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    Rescue Scovy boy or girl?

    Looks like a girl to me. The foot is large, but the leg doesn't look large enough to be a male Muscovy at 5 1/2 weeks.
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    Have to brag about the Musky Babies

    The white head gene is partially dominant. Sometimes it will come out, sometimes it won't. We had babies a few weeks similar to these. Their mama is a barred blue with a white head. The daddy was black with a white bib. Even though the babies started out looking a lot like yours, now (as 8...
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    Age and sexes of these 4 Muscovy's lots of pics

    We have Muscovies, and by looking, especially at picture #1, it looks to me like 3 males and a female. Do measure their feet - males should have much larger feet/legs at this point. They will also feel heavier (or weigh heavier if you have access to a scale). My babies look very similar to...
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    Serious Duck Problem really need help Video Added!!!

    Even our Muscovy girls exhibit this kind of behavior. (Also,If it were a seizure the duck would not have muscle control and it wouldn't be able to continue on with the other ducks.)
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    Help identify these two

    We have two 7 week old female Muscovies who are similar to these in color. We have one which looks just like the darker on. I believe afetr the molt, the dark brown will go away and she will be a black and white pied. Probably the same for the other, with more white.
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    Duck Genetics Question

    This is our first year with Muscovies. We have 3 adult females: one blue with a white head, one solid white with blue eyes, and one black and white pied. They have produced 26 babies for us so far this year. The babies were all produced with a black and white pied male which we no longer...
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    WANTED: Barred and Ripple colored muscovys

    Did you find your barred Muscovies? We live in Southern Oregon and I have 2 five week old barred black (may be barred pied) males. They are just starting to feather out.
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