Attention Muscovy lovers

[Dianne88]

That white one with the side view looks a lil drakey to me but might just be the pic. looking at it in the bigger pic I'd almost bet that one is a drake. and I see a couple with the football build which is girl.

That's Solo, I will put a closer pic so

[/IMG]you can let me know what you think. I don't really have a preference, he/she is my Solo baby!

 

[Dianne88]

That's Solo, I will put a closer pic so

[/IMG]you can let me know what you think. I don't really have a preference, he/she is my Solo baby!

That was the same pic I posted on the other thread. I will try to get better pics.

These are Solo's legs from the back

 

[Miss Lydia]

That was the same pic I posted on the other thread. I will try to get better pics.
These are Solo's legs from the back

Now looking at Solo's legs and the Chocolate ones legs looks like Solo is girl and Chocolate is drake but sometimes the legs can even fool ya, one of mine from this year had thicker legs than her sister and she took a while to determine. Now when Solo walks does it look like she is about to step on her other foot? another good way of telling Drake for duck girls legs are set closer together under body drakes are farther apart. A pic of Solo full front with legs would be the clincher.

 

[Dianne88]

Now looking at Solo's legs and the Chocolate ones legs looks like Solo is girl and Chocolate is drake but sometimes the legs can even fool ya, one of mine from this year had thicker legs than her sister and she took a while to determine. Now when Solo walks does it look like she is about to step on her other foot? another good way of telling Drake for duck girls legs are set closer together under body drakes are farther apart. A pic of Solo full front with legs would be the clincher.

Yes she looks like she's stepping in her own feet when she walks. I just took a front picture of her, let me know what you think.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Yes she looks like she's stepping in her own feet when she walks. I just took a front picture of her, let me know what you think.

Solo is a girl!! Congrats. Now you can sex the others since you know what to look for. !

 

[Dianne88]

Solo is a girl!! Congrats. Now you can sex the others since you know what to look for. !

Thanks, if I can ever get them to hold still for a min!!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Thanks, if I can ever get them to hold still for a min!!

Sit a watch them walk best way in the world to see the difference in drake /duck. Leg thickness, legs set under body and shape of body.

 

[Alaskan]

I have tried googling, but I am obviously not googling correctly

1) For how many years is a male musovy usually fertile?

2) And, how many years do the females usually lay?

3) Do they have an age where there is a significant reduction in egg production? Or is every year just a little fewer? Or is it totally different with Muscovy since they usually only lay to brood?

4) how in the world do you remove their eggs, and not make your duck sad?

 

[Going Quackers]

I have tried googling, but I am obviously not googling correctly

1) For how many years is a male musovy usually fertile?

2) And, how many years do the females usually lay?

3) Do they have an age where there is a significant reduction in egg production? Or is every year just a little fewer? Or is it totally different with Muscovy since they usually only lay to brood?

4) how in the world do you remove their eggs, and not make your duck sad?

I can answer the last one, they get over it! preds often invade nests, i had this happen recently, one my ducks made a nest under a lid off the truck, each night something(99% sure a skunk) invaded her nest, she eventually gave up, she got over it, we refused to leave her out overnight anyways and physically removed her each evening.

The rest i truly don't know specifics, most scovies go for meat, only recently have the merits of their others aspects started to become appealing and so forth therefore the answers to the other questions are going to come along.

I know MIss lydia here has older Muscovy, hopefully she'll chime in.

 

[Alaskan]

OK, well at least I feel better that I couldn't find the answers when I kept googling......



But my duck was so very very sad when I took her eggs away. After two full days of her crying, I caved and let her brood.

So, this week I checked, and ALL of the eggs I looked at had perfectly developing babies!!!!!!!


So, I have no idea why her last clutch was totally infertile....must have been a fluke, or whatever....

but now I know that the baby drake, is truly going to be lunch, and I have no idea how the lot of you manage to be patient for the bajillion days that it takes to incubate muscovy eggs.

I am so very excited because the colors that I have should produce some very lovely rainbow babies! The drake is a very light...silver maybe? And the duck that is brooding is chocolate. I kind of think that she might have been the only duck laying, but the other two possible layers are a blue and a more dilute blue (not gonna look it up right now, is the more dilute blue lavender?) and a light chocolate mix....which makes her a fawn maybe?

Whatever....the babies will be beautiful!