Anyone have a good idea of how long it takes muscovy ducks to fly?

[Tesumph]

Muscovy’s are not protected in Florida they are considered invasive and a lot meet horrendous deaths because of it. We have a feral flock here but thankfully nothing like other places where they are killed just because they are Muscovy.

So I suppose it’s possible a wildlife rehab would not accept them, or particularly want them at least.

Would you agree that it’s best they go to a home where they can get their wings clipped and remain as pets, then?

 

[Miss Lydia]

There is a Muscovy rescue down in south Florida I googled it once maybe more places that would take them but the state wild life would most likely euthanize them.

 

[Summernole]

Saving the birds would be keeping them and not sending them on their way to fend for themselves after they know nothing more than you feeding them daily for months.

Had they hatched on their own in the wild they would have been taught to find their own food but their flock. You can't possible teach them now to find their own food if you kick them out. They don't know how to live like wild ducks now.


If you found a litter of day old puppies crying on the side of the road would you take them home, nurse them to health, then at 2 months old just open your door and send them on their way and hope they make it?

Sounds nuts doesn't it.
It's no different.

You may think I am criticizing you and maybe I am...it is wrong, period, what you are doing/want to do by turning them loose.

Their Mother was killed the night before they hatched. If they had been lucky enough to have hatched on their own, without her warmth, they would not have survived anyway. They would have had no Mother to protect them or teach them or even walk them to the retention pond. That would have been the cruelest thing to do. These ducks will be full grown when they start to fly. It is certainly not like booting puppies out of the house. They know how to eat grass and find bugs just like the other ducks in back of my house. You need to give these birds a little credit. They are pretty smart and will more than likely intermingle with the other muscovy ducks here.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I’d say if all domestic duck breeds Muscovy have a better chance of surviving because they haven’t been messed with as far as breeding than other domestics .they do have that going for them.Their instincts are still intact.

 

[Summernole]

I’d say if all domestic duck breeds Muscovy have a better chance of surviving because they haven’t been messed with as far as breeding than other domestics .they do have that going for them.Their instincts are still intact.

Thank you, Miss Lydia. I am not going to clip their wings and hold them hostage in my backyard. I was just trying to save some babies when their Mother was killed and I don't know why I am being criticized for that. Anyway, I'm trying to delete this post. I have had enough.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Very sorry , we all just hope they make it on their own when the time comes.