I am glad you have already had success with your eggs! Thanks for the helpful info, I really appreciate it! Since my muscovy is only 7 months I am thinking I just need to wait. But he/she is developing larger caruncles each day. She/he also has been putting its mohawk up a lot more when alarmed as well. Since large caruncles and mohawks tend to be male traits, I am starting to think I don't have a female. Do you know if females can also exhibit these traits? I will post a few more pictures to see if anyone can confirm my suspicion.
Thanks again!
Thanks for the great info! It's good to know that muscovy females can have large caruncles as well. Lilac is a very pretty lady! My muscovy is rather small (you can judge the size by comparing to my indian runner in the pic above), so female seems possible. However, he/she also doesn't make any female sounds that I have heard. He/she has "hissed" before, but really rarely makes any noises at all. I know females can also hiss, so I still don't know what to think. The father duck was absolutely huge, so it is hard for me to believe that mine is a male, unless it was the runt or something.Mohawks are not a sexual trait, females raise theirs too and facial fleshing varied while yes, males usually have more females vary... i have enough of them hear to see it.
The pics, don't look like a male.. not big enough, head has a feminine shape... that said pics are deceptive, what kind of vocals can you get from this bird, while females do hiss they have way beyond that whereas male simply don't.. they hiss/huff and that is all past baby staging.
Here is my Lilac she is quite heavy fleshed, a few years old and most definitely female.
