Black Muscovy project

[Quacking Pigeon]

You have some beautiful drakes I believe your on the right track and with the show coming up that will tell you which of your drakes will be your breeder.

Thank you

 

[jvls1942]

a few years back, I bred an all white guinea flock. If any had ANY colored feathers on them anywhere whatsoever, they were culled.
It took me a few years to accomplish getting all white keets to hatch..
I am just wondering if you will ever get a pure black flock if you use drakes (or hens) with any white on them.?

 

[Quacking Pigeon]

a few years back, I bred an all white guinea flock. If any had ANY colored feathers on them anywhere whatsoever, they were culled.
It took me a few years to accomplish getting all white keets to hatch..
I am just wondering if you will ever get a pure black flock if you use drakes (or hens) with any white on them.?

It seems basically impossible to aquire any pure black birds that won’t go white after each molt. All you really can do is get and breed birds that stay darker for a long period of time.

 

[Quacking Pigeon]

I am currently selling a lot of my ducks including my white and pied muscovies as I just want to focus on the blacks. Although I am keeping my original two muscovies, Mammoth and Snowbell who are whites. I am also selling my crossbreds, so I’ll have more space to keep birds I breed. The enclosure will have to be upgraded though.

 

[Claires Poultry]

At the moment I'm trying to breed some very black Muscovies, I've got 7 dark Muscovy ducklings from my blackest Muscovy duck but I'm hoping Dusty (black drake with lots of white on his face and chocolate on his body in some places) isn't the dad as I got a very black drake and I wanted to use him for breeding.

We'll see when the ducklings are fully feathered. If Dusty is the dad they'll have a fair bit of white on them and they'll also probably have some chocolate and light grey feathers on them. I'll keep this updated.

Sounds like an exciting project! I'll be here to follow along! Your Muscovies are absolutely beautiful!

 

[Quacking Pigeon]

Sounds like an exciting project! I'll be here to follow along! Your Muscovies are absolutely beautiful!

Thank you

 

[Claires Poultry]

You're welcome! I absolutely love Muscovies. I have 70 and counting of my own!

 

[jvls1942]

I am sorry, I must have misunderstood your project. I thought you were trying to get all black muscovys ..

 

[Quacking Pigeon]

I am sorry, I must have misunderstood your project. I thought you were trying to get all black muscovys ..

It’s alright. I am trying to get pure blacks or white winged blacks. But I’ll most likely end up with white winged, just due to the lack of pure blacks around.

 

[Quacking Pigeon]

Change of plans. I give up on breeding any show quality blacks as it is very difficult to come across any large black ducks and drakes, and in general big enough muscovies for the standards. Instead I may start trying to breed some miniatures. I have no idea how many generations it’ll take, and how small they can get, but at this point I’m willing to just breed a bunch in a variety of colours. Then, maybe in the future if they become small enough and stay the same for multiple generations I could.. (probably not) try to get them standardised.

I’m just over trying to get large birds.