Broody 'scovy hatching Welsh Harlequins now! :)

[Caprice_Acres]

After months of attempting to artificially incubate duck eggs (and failing completely and utterly), I have a broody 'scovy hatching some welsh Harlequins as we speak.

So extatic! Pics soon... I think there were 4 or 5 out, with3 or 4 eggs left to go. Momma 'scovy was proud and BITING when I checked, so I'll leave her to it for a while.

 

[Wifezilla]

I have better luck letting momma ducks hatch eggs too.

 

[Caprice_Acres]

4 out, one more pipped and peeping. Of the 4 that are out, I think I have a couple silvers.

3 of the ones out have dark bills/feet and the other has light bill/feet... hope that means I have 3 females and 1 male!

I really was hoping for some silver females.

 

[Caprice_Acres]

 

[Wifezilla]

No, it means you have three boys and one girl! DOH!

 

[SaraFL]

So cute!

 

[DKPoultry]

SWEET! We had our broody muscovy hatching out our Ruen/Runner babies for us. She did such a fabulous job.

 

[Bleenie]

!!! She has such a beautiful face!!!!!
and those babies are cute, but that face!

 

[Caprice_Acres]

I love my caruncled 'scovy faces. That's her PO'ed face though. They're such good mommas and they're not above biting me when I'm getting to handsy with 'her' babies.

I ended up with 5 babies, 3 with dark bills and 2 with light bills. From Metzer's website, it says that the light billed ones are female, dark billed ones are male. I'm hoping for silver hens and gold drakes - I've never seen a gold drake before, just silvers.

 

[Wifezilla]

The gold drakes are kinda boring. Still handsome, but their heads are brown instead of green and their wing bars are bronze instead of bright blue.