Ducks VS Muscovies

[Miss Lydia]

oh my! well, my numbers aren't that high but considering i only owned 21 ducks... i have a lot of boys.. out of the 10 who hatched this year, 9 are boys!

Pretty boys but still.. to bad you can't neuter them.

I'd like to neuter them especially when they are under 2 yrs old. Just had to stop my youngest drake from sexual battery with a duck who thinks she is broody. Good grief. She is running with all her might and he is hot on her tail, but my old drake intervened first.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

I have four Muscovy ducklings. Hoping at least 3 are females (probably all males, yes? ; ) ) Will they hatch guinea, chicken, peafowl, and goose eggs? As I stink at hatching goslings out, and it would be WONDERFUL if I could just let them hatch them!! Would they do this? Also, how many do you think I'd 'need' to have, to make sure I have at least one broody just about all the time?

~ Aspen

 

[PressOn]

You can nuter them by cutting between the first and second rib, and removing the testicals. If the Drake is full grown you can always eat him. They are suppose to be the best meat in the world. The eggs and meat are said to be much better than that of a duck.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I have four Muscovy ducklings. Hoping at least 3 are females (probably all males, yes? ; ) ) Will they hatch guinea, chicken, peafowl, and goose eggs? As I stink at hatching goslings out, and it would be WONDERFUL if I could just let them hatch them!! Would they do this? Also, how many do you think I'd 'need' to have, to make sure I have at least one broody just about all the time?

~ Aspen

My muscovy hatched out an Embden goose. well turned out to be a gander but they love to hatch.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Miss Lydia, that is wonderful!! Not I'm seriously thinking about trying to get a 'few' (ahem) more Muscovies growing out so I can make sure I end up with some females next spring that can do some hatching chores for me.

~ Aspen

 

[Miss Lydia]

Miss Lydia, that is wonderful!! Not I'm seriously thinking about trying to get a 'few' (ahem) more Muscovies growing out so I can make sure I end up with some females next spring that can do some hatching chores for me.

~ Aspen

You won't go wrong with Muscovies, I have 2 girls sitting on nothing in their stall, and another thought she might like to try it today but I discouraged that. We are finished for the year they just haven't come to grips with it yet.

 

[Scovy Momma]

Is the best way to discourage the broodiness to just take the egg? I take Daisy's everyday & put it in the fridge.She hasn't become snippy or mean about it. She just waits for me to come home & feed her her treats,then she will lay her egg & I take it. Pop says she's one of those that likes to be watched.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Is the best way to discourage the broodiness to just take the egg? I take Daisy's everyday & put it in the fridge.She hasn't become snippy or mean about it. She just waits for me to come home & feed her her treats,then she will lay her egg & I take it. Pop says she's one of those that likes to be watched.

Thats cute about being watched, i think my girls are broody [they have no eggs under them] so they can bite me. They are both the sweetest and most people friendly of all our ducks but when it comes to brooding they are stinkers. This has been going on for close to 2 weeks now and they are still sitting, they come out 2X a day all puffed up screaming, eating drinking pooping

and swimming, then back into the stall on their so called nest. crazy things, so taking their eggs doesn't necessarily discourage broodiness it just means you won't have any ducklings.

When Daisy decides she wants to brood, you'll deff know the difference.

 

[Scovy Momma]

Thats cute about being watched, i think my girls are broody [they have no eggs under them] so they can bite me. They are both the sweetest and most people friendly of all our ducks but when it comes to brooding they are stinkers. This has been going on for close to 2 weeks now and they are still sitting, they come out 2X a day all puffed up screaming, eating drinking pooping

and swimming, then back into the stall on their so called nest. crazy things, so taking their eggs doesn't necessarily discourage broodiness it just means you won't have any ducklings.

When Daisy decides she wants to brood, you'll deff know the difference.

Gotcha! I wasn't sure if they get moody because there's eggs to sit on or just because they're females. I did notice that she has started doing this weird,annoying "Screech!" noise but only when I come into the pets' room & she wants out of her house.

 

[PlumTuckered]

My scovy girls have hatched out 50 babies since Feb.14th this year and only 8 were males. I decided 2 weeks ago not to let anyone else go broody and started taking the eggs away, now the lil boogers are hiding their eggs and I haven't found them yet. I've had my scovies for 2 yrs now and the only time they didn't lay was when in a molt or broody.
My Pekin was on a nest of eggs, 2 hatched on day 28 so I'm assuming they are her's...the other 4 hatched out on day 35 so I'm guessing the scovy gals had them hidden in her nest. I have to admit the Pekin/Scovy cross 2 are as cute as the pure scovies.

Michelle