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I culled one of my drakes today. It was a logical cull as I had too many drakes and he was the one I least wanted to breed from. I will use the feathers, and he will be very tasty, and the food bill will be lower. However, I feel meaner every time I do this, and I eat more and more vegetarian...

No worries. Thanks for clarifying.

White caruncles? That sounds interesting. Can we see a picture of Mum?

My drakes are a bit younger than my females. The girls have been flirting for a while, and the boys have been oblivious. Finally, I spotted a drake on top on the pond. There was some of what may have been productive action, but rather more of standing sideways on the hen duck's back and casually...

One of the pied girls has finally laid her first egg. Let's not assume it was laid anywhere sensible or clean, but hey, it's an egg! I gave up poultry while I was finishing my degree, so it's our first home laid egg in a long time.

Awwww! They're adorable!

It is interesting how different Muscovy eggs are from the eggs of ducks in the Anas group of species: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jsnfs1949/32/2/32_2_93/_article

Thank goodness you spotted the problem before it got any worse. All the best with the rest of the hatch.

The pied girls are getting flirtier, and also re-establishing their pecking order. The young drakes look adult-sized now, but haven't figured out what all this flirting is about. They sometimes get pecked for their ignorance. However, I have yet to find a single egg. The neighbours are doing...

She looks so happy! How is the hatch progressing?

It is escaping duck week here. This has resulted in lots of wing trimming and one cull. I'll see what tomorrow brings.

On the NZ version of the website it is under tanks and pumps, but in the store, it was with pond stuff.

You can probably have one, because I found it at Bunnings. I'm not sure whether I can link to a commercial product here. It's a while since I read the rules. I could take a photo tomorrow.

My muscovies are very messy creatures, so I was delighted to find a "little pond sucker" in my local hardware store today. It's a little plastic box which uses a Venturi effect created by the garden hose to suck water out of the ducks' pool (which is half a plastic barrel, nothing flash). This...

The babies are growing. The males are about the same size as the pied girls now. The pied girls are not laying yet. They are about six months old, and the babies are about 9 weeks.

Oh, and @Claires Poultry , thank you for your earlier suggestion of the pea gravel, too.

Thanks @the cluck juggler and @Muscovy Wunda . It's really helpful to hear what works or doesn't work for others. I appreciate it.

I have black soil. The pen is a similar size. There's still a bit of grass, but not much. I throw in a lot of weeds for the ducks to eat, and that takes a bit of pressure off the grass that is in there. However, they are penned up all the time, as I live right by a busy road. This means the duck...

I had a long sit in the Muscovy run today, just watching the young ones. I thought I only had one hen out of the six, but now I am sure I have two, and maybe a third. I'm pretty happy about that. I put sand around their water tub today. I think it is an improvement already. I might put...

My mule drake seems to be back to normal now. He's a little too curious for his own good, and will try eating things which other ducks ignore. The straight muscovies seem to have a stronger self-preservation instinct when it comes to choosing their food.