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My newest addition to the flock, purchased at our annual poultry show. Sorry for the bad quality, she does not trust me yet and the zoom of our camera is not the best... Taken on the first night in the quarantine cage, from short distance and with better quality, but no posture:

Oh thank you You have also really pretty birds! Mine can also stand really upright but usually only when excited. They also look much slender when they do. I pick them up every night to carry them into a small coop in the basement because the drake cannot be kept in the shed with the muscovy...

My runner pair. The drake is gray ( wild coloured) and the duck is a trout runner, a little lighter than the usual wild colour pattern. They are not SQ, but that's why I like them.

One thing that might work is to "dig out" the nest and move it into the coop. That was an advice I got a few years ago, but I'm not sure whether it really works - first it appeared as if the broody had accepted the new location, but the next day the nest was trampled by the other ducks and the...