Aggresive Muscovy Drake ???

[BHep]

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I have rabbit water bottles on almost every coop as a back up. Everyone uses them. Plus I have the fountain type, but sometimes they get knocked over. So a back up is there. I used the rabbit water bottles ONLY with my Quail, silly critters kept dumping over the waterers. The screen just is not as stable as solid flooring. They take to it right away, they cannot resist anything shiny.

I raised my Pheasants, Courtinex and Button chicks on hamster water bottles, otherwise they kept drowning or soaking themselves to death.

 

[jdywntr]

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THANK YOU !
This was NOT what I intended.

Yes I have chickens, geese, peacocks, ducks, pheasants. And they all get along. I have 16 coops inside and 7 outside. AND TOO MANY BIRDS

Just look past the junk this was during construction:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/72330_full.jpg

I like your setup. Wish I had that much room.

Sorry that you have lost some hens. I think the best suggestion I have read is to try to cover any open areas with hardware cloth.
I have only had Muscovy for about 6 months. I ended up with 1 female and 5 males so I knew that some would need to go eventually. None of the males were aggressive but they do start trying to mate with my chickens so they went to freezer camp last week.

If you don't have any other problems with your drake and don't want to process him I would try to make the chickens more secure. Good luck!

 

[gmendoza]

I like your setup. Wish I had that much room.

Sorry that you have lost some hens. I think the best suggestion I have read is to try to cover any open areas with hardware cloth.
I have only had Muscovy for about 6 months. I ended up with 1 female and 5 males so I knew that some would need to go eventually. None of the males were aggressive but they do start trying to mate with my chickens so they went to freezer camp last week.

If you don't have any other problems with your drake and don't want to process him I would try to make the chickens more secure. Good luck!

Well if your drakes are trying to mate with your chicken hens,he will kill them.He will insert his curly CENSORED into the hens CENSORED and kill her. Almost lost a hen due to this catastrophy.

well the criminal was aprehended, and sent to Camp Kenmore. End of story.

 

[Ducks and Banny hens]

Like I mentioned before, I think that if a Scoby drake is causing problems, you should berid yourself of him. What's the good in keeping a bird that threatens the life and wellfare of your other birds? If you want, of course you should get a new scovy drake to replace him, but be warned there is a good chance that the new boy will be just like the old one. This is just a matter of paying attention to it's behaviour, and acting before it happens again. Good scovy drakes might be hard to come by. I'm beginning to think from all the feedback that the random rampaging destructive anger in scobies is hereditary. Maybe. It seems nobody else thinks scobies are mean, but the only scobies I've ever seen are. But all the specimens I've ever had have been related....





Anybody want to add anything? Make fun of me? Twist my words? Alright then.

 

[sourland]

As I previously posted my experiences with muscovies are diametrically opposed to those of Ducks and Banny Hens. Out of several hundred muscovies over a twenty or thirty year period I ONLY had one aggressive drake. With all of the others from a variety of sources there were no problems.

 

[Ducks and Banny hens]

Did you breed from the aggresive drake to 'test my theory'? Or did you just cull him?

As I previously posted my experiences with muscovies are diametrically opposed to those of Ducks and Banny Hens. Out of several hundred muscovies over a twenty or thirty year period I ONLY had one aggressive drake. With all of the others from a variety of sources there were no problems.

 

[mrslb333]

Like I mentioned before, I think that if a Scoby drake is causing problems, you should berid yourself of him. What's the good in keeping a bird that threatens the life and wellfare of your other birds? If you want, of course you should get a new scovy drake to replace him, but be warned there is a good chance that the new boy will be just like the old one. This is just a matter of paying attention to it's behaviour, and acting before it happens again. Good scovy drakes might be hard to come by. I'm beginning to think from all the feedback that the random rampaging destructive anger in scobies is hereditary. Maybe. It seems nobody else thinks scobies are mean, but the only scobies I've ever seen are. But all the specimens I've ever had have been related....





Anybody want to add anything? Make fun of me? Twist my words? Alright then.

Nothing much just that I've reported you as its not fair that you keep trying to take over this thread with deliberately provocative posts.

 

[sourland]

D & B Hens, Sourland may be foolish, but he is not stupid. Why would anyone keep or breed from a drake that was killing other poultry?

 

[Miss Lydia]

I have Muscovies going on 9 years, not as long as Sourland but in those almost 9 years we had one mean drake, and yep we took care of him.
And that can be any breed.

D & B Hens, Sourland may be foolish, but he is not stupid. Why would anyone keep or breed from a drake that was killing other poultry?

 

[Ducks and Banny hens]

That's what I figured, but I didn't want to say anything, just in case you did.

D & B Hens, Sourland may be foolish, but he is not stupid. Why would anyone keep or breed from a drake that was killing other poultry?