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    Our first try at muscovy ducks

    Thank you, Miss Lydia, for your invitation to this muscovy group! I'm a semi-retired teacher and my companion a retired physicist. We started out, here in Burgundy, France, with a gaelic rooster and hen along with two other salmon blue hens. The result has been exponential since the hens are...
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    How we did it here in Burgundy, France

    Here is how we made our duck and goose pond. Black tarp with rocks and pieces of road paving. The work wasn't quite finished when the second photo was taken. One side is slightly lower and allows drain off of duck and goose feathers into a filter. The bottom will be cleaned out once a year.
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    Our first muscovy ducklings

    We have a second duck sitting on some 18 eggs and a chinese good sitting on something like ten eggs. After watching our chickens develop from three hens and one rooster, it's a whole new adventure!
  4. Here the bread, intended for the "adults" was a little to high, but nothing seems too far fetched for curious little ducks?

    Here the bread, intended for the "adults" was a little to high, but nothing seems too far fetched for curious little ducks?

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  5. We were totally amazed, though learned here on the website that ducks developed much more quickly than chickens, to see mother and ducklings out in the middle of the field within just a few hours after hatching!

    We were totally amazed, though learned here on the website that ducks developed much more quickly than chickens, to see mother and ducklings out in the middle of the field within just a few hours after hatching!

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  6. Twelve little muscovy ducklings!

    Twelve little muscovy ducklings!

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  7. First day out, the youngest were only born a few hours before!

    First day out, the youngest were only born a few hours before!

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  8. Duck and goose pond, constructed to allow run-off and filtering of surface feathers, built with black tarp, rocks and the pieces of road paving torn up and discarded off the side of the road!

    Duck and goose pond, constructed to allow run-off and filtering of surface feathers, built with black tarp, rocks and the pieces of road paving torn up and discarded off the side of the road!

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  9. What happens when a duck steals its neighbour's eggs! We took away a couple of the 21 eggs that finally ended up in the nest and marked the others!

    What happens when a duck steals its neighbour's eggs! We took away a couple of the 21 eggs that finally ended up in the nest and marked the others!

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  10. Now on we don't know how many eggs -- we discovered that both goose and one of the female Muscovy ducks were "stealing" eggs laid next to them and adding them to their nests -- we're waiting for D-day to come with its load of surprises. We've never seen the jar actually mount his companions, but who knows? In any case, we thought that geese laid and reproduced in spring. Ours are teaching us differently.

    Now on we don't know how many eggs -- we discovered that both goose and one of the female Muscovy ducks were "stealing" eggs laid next to them and adding them to their nests -- we're waiting for D-day to come with its load of surprises. We've never seen the jar actually mount his companions, but who knows? In any case, we thought that geese laid and reproduced in spring. Ours are teaching us differently.

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  11. It began with two goose eggs.

    It began with two goose eggs.

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  12. We discovered that one of the two female geese had begun to build a nest carefully "hidden" (she thought) behind the big bale of straw.

    We discovered that one of the two female geese had begun to build a nest carefully "hidden" (she thought) behind the big bale of straw.

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  13. This shelter, left with a narrow space behind the large bails of straw and hay (covered here to protect them from rain and snow during the on-coming winter), has become a nesting place for one of the female Chinese geese.

    This shelter, left with a narrow space behind the large bails of straw and hay (covered here to protect them from rain and snow during the on-coming winter), has become a nesting place for one of the female Chinese geese.

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  14. Located next to the horse stall under the open barn, after three days of being "couped up" so they could get used to their new home, like the chickens in their nearby chicken house, the ducks and chickens now have freedom to roam 2 1/2 acres of field from dawn to dusk.

    Located next to the horse stall under the open barn, after three days of being "couped up" so they could get used to their new home, like the chickens in their nearby chicken house, the ducks and chickens now have freedom to roam 2 1/2 acres of field from dawn to dusk.

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  15. Two of the female muscovy ducks -- the marks on the back of the neck are birthmarks -- before they began sitting on their eggs after less than a month of moving in.

    Two of the female muscovy ducks -- the marks on the back of the neck are birthmarks -- before they began sitting on their eggs after less than a month of moving in.

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  16. Photos taken the first days of arrival when everyone was penned into an area under the open barn where they would learn to return at night to sleep. The area turned out to be perfect, though we're building a new shelter made exclusively of pallets and bording a pond dug for both breeds to swim in during the warmer months here in northern France.

    Photos taken the first days of arrival when everyone was penned into an area under the open barn where they would learn to return at night to sleep. The area turned out to be perfect, though we're building a new shelter made exclusively of pallets and bording a pond dug for both breeds to swim in during the warmer months here in northern France.

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  17. Our three Chinese geese or "oies de guinée" in French and two of our five muscovy geese or "canards de barbarie" in French.

    Our three Chinese geese or "oies de guinée" in French and two of our five muscovy geese or "canards de barbarie" in French.

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    Muscovy ducks and Chinese geese

    In August 2015 we bought a male and four female muscovy ducks along with a Chinese gander and his two females. We would never have imagined the wonder we derive fom watching these ducks and geese evolve together amid the numberous free running chickens and horse on our 2 1/2 acres of field here...
  19. Our first gaulois doré hen and her first batch of chicks in the summer of 2013.

    Our first gaulois doré hen and her first batch of chicks in the summer of 2013.

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  20. Close up of gaulois doré roosting in our chicken house.

    Close up of gaulois doré roosting in our chicken house.

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