Finally Gots My Self Some Muscovies!!! ~Pics~

[The Wolf Queen]

Lol that DOES sounf funny

oh well I guess ill just say breeding quad of ducks

 

[rainplace]

Or you can say, "My drake has a trio of girls...."

 

[Jess N Jeff]

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Or you can just say your drake is a stud and has himself a Harem.....lucky ducky!!!!

 

[The Wolf Queen]

. That reminds me, at what age do ducks start laying? I wanna hatch me some baby ducks!!!

 

[The Wolf Queen]

I just thought of another question. How long does it take Scovie eggs to hatch? Ive heard 28 days. is that correct? Oh and how long are they on chick start how long on grower? Thanks again. Im glad there are so many helpful people on here although I do think that since there is BYchickens and BYherds there should also be a BYducks

 

[MDC]

Muscovy take approximately 35 days to hatch. 28 days is what it takes a mallard derivative egg to hatch. 'Pied' refers to the white. People who are sticklers about genetics will go so far as to say things such as 'piebald' and the like, however, unless you're geared towards the genetics aspect all of that is pretty much more information than the average duck owner needs to worry about. If a bird has color, plus white, it's a pied. So, because they have both self-blue (not the same as lilac) and white, they're self-blue pieds.

My experience has been that Muscovy begin to lay at approximately 9 months of age. That is where they will be laying approx. one egg a day. Early hatched birds will lay a few eggs that fall before winding down for winter, but won't begin to lay regularly until the following spring. I have recently heard people reporting that their birds have started laying at 6 months. Whether that is due to environmental factors, I can't say. Where I live we have 4 definite seasons, birds down south where there is 'warm' and 'hot' with a day or two of cool thrown in each year will produce an entirely different outcome.

 

[feather leg farms]

Nice Muscovies!! I really like the gray hen. I have 11 muscovies, chocolate, pied, blue with white spots, and some really dark brown with white spots.

 

[Le Canard de Barbarie]

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Not funny, these are ment as breeders.

Then what are you going to do with all the excess males? Some of them don't look like hens.

 

[The Wolf Queen]

Le Canard de Barbarie wrote: Then what are you going to do with all the excess males? Some of them don't look like hens.

Elvis is the only male. The other 3 dont have big feet and they dont just hiss, they quack and make other noises as well.

ETA: By the way, can ducks be line bred like chickens can, or will it hurt the babies?​