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  1. Kaiori

    Guard geese for ducks

    I have a single female African goose with my flock of ducks. She occasionally tries to mate my ducks (her on top), in the pool. Not good. She also has a tremendous fit when my ducks mate each other. She acts like the sex police and puts up a fuss at them, sometimes biting them in the face...
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    Sad and angry. What did this? (Photos, not too gruesome)

    I had a small duck killed and the gizzard was ripped out and thrown aside just like that. Also happened middle of the night. It was an owl. Caught it attacking again the next night. The remains were a mangled mess, left behind, but the area was loosely covered by netting so the owl couldn't have...
  3. Kaiori

    Help sexing 1 muscovy duck

    I wasn't gonna comment because everyone already called it, but if you're still a little unsure, I can tell you that's most definitely a female. 🙂
  4. Kaiori

    7 Week Old - Muscovy Ducks

    Whew ok, I have to admit, they're stumping me a little more than I anticipated. 😅 It's so much easier to tell when you see them all together. Lol It's one of those things where the longer you look at them individually, the more you question yourself. 🤣 My best guess would be: Pic 1: Maybe boy...
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    7 Week Old - Muscovy Ducks

    Try to get good pictures of them all (the younger ones too) and I'll try my best to tell you their genders. It's often said you can tell by 4 weeks old, but it's easier for those with a trained eye. I've had practice with my 156 muscovy ducklings I hatched out this year so I'm starting to be...
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    7 Week Old - Muscovy Ducks

    The photo with 2 of them- the bottom one is definitely male. I'm leaning toward all being male just based on the wings but it's hard to tell. Would be easier to tell gender if you had full body shots with feet showing.
  7. Kaiori

    Muscovy Size Question

    Yea, if you had both males and females, it would be instantly obvious at that age which is which. It definitely sucks when you end up with one gender and you're trying to compare and they all look the same. Lol If you go for the smaller ones, you're much more likely to get females (depending...
  8. Kaiori

    Keep one word, drop one word

    Positively negative
  9. Kaiori

    Describe the person above you's avatar.. badly.

    Albino possum with lazy ears I'd call my own avatar a glorified pigeon. 😆
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    Describe the person above you's avatar.. badly.

    Poorly blended gradient cartoon cardiac organ 😅
  11. Kaiori

    Mule Duck or Muscovy?

    Yea, normal muscovy feathers.
  12. Kaiori

    Muscovy Size Question

    Definitely males. The feet alone will give it away. Both the size and the stance (females feet are turned slightly inward and often step on their feet). The body length, the overall look... Males will go from baby chirps to a "hoarse" sounding whisper (like they're still trying to "chirp") to...
  13. Kaiori

    Wth is this? (Tiny feathers on butchered muscovy)

    Results after cooking! I roasted him up, tiny feathers and all (with some roasty-toasty potatoes in duck fat). Cut the tail off after gutting because he sat too long from plucking and the end of the intestinal tract caused a bit of smell on the tail meat (but the rest was fine). As much as...
  14. Kaiori

    Wth is this? (Tiny feathers on butchered muscovy)

    Yaaasss! This is exactly my thinking. Lol I'd rather be able to see what I'm working with. Thank you to everyone else for your input! Very much appreciated. I wouldn't even mind too much to go through the wings and pluck out all the feather bits with tweezers but it's pointless because only...
  15. Kaiori

    Wth is this? (Tiny feathers on butchered muscovy)

    Already tried it with a torch on this one. Lol Didn't work. Just shrunk the skin and would have cooked it before doing anything to those tiny hair feathers.
  16. Kaiori

    Wth is this? (Tiny feathers on butchered muscovy)

    Yea, I'm thinking that's what I'll have to do. lol Might be harder though since ducks are much more densely feathered than chickens but I'm gonna try! 🤣
  17. Kaiori

    Wth is this? (Tiny feathers on butchered muscovy)

    Thank you guys! Ugh, what a bummer. I was going to say "I'm guessing this is why meat birds are white..?" 😅 But one of the other ducks I did was mostly black and had nothing of this sort at all. So is it specifically because I missed the window to butcher? Do I have to wait til 16 weeks or...
  18. Kaiori

    Wth is this? (Tiny feathers on butchered muscovy)

    So.. I've butchered a few ducks lately. 1 Pekin and 1 black swedish mix or something. Didn't have this problem with them. They were both 19 weeks (or 18 weeks and some change). Yea, I meant to butcher much sooner but time got away from me. Now I decided to do one of my muscovies. I've done...
  19. Kaiori

    Muscovy ducks

    Your black duck looks female to me.
  20. Kaiori

    Does the Membrane Look Dry?

    With such a large pip hole but no real zipping yet, I'd be concerned that it can't turn to zip and is stuck. I just had to rescue one of mine that was like this the other day. It was beyond ready to hatch but couldn't. Definitely chip away some shell from where the hole is. If the membrane is...
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