No. Got them from a friend. I had Muscovy in the past but didnt like their behavior that much. Do I wanted a different breed, and he promised me these are not Muscovy... Of course I eill raise them and care for them anyway.
I'm a muscovy fan -- they are such intelligent ducks and so friendly. Mine are all rescues but I only raised one from a tiny fluff ball -- the others came from our local wildlife rehabber at 8-10 weeks old. My little fluffball was all yellow. But his bill certainly looked like yours.
If you hand-raise these little ones, and have your children interact with them everyday, they are very likely to be friendly with your children. Muscovy are the quietist of ducks!!! my son and I also have pekins: they are very noisy ducks and equally as messy as muscovy. Ducks are just messy -- pooping everywhere with wet poop. But it hoses down and unlike chicken poop, it can safely go straight onto the garden. It doesn't need composting.
Female muscovy babble away -- quietly: much more quietly than my pekin drakes that don't stop chattering all day and at times in the night. There is no way a female muscovy can compete on noise level with female pekins. [My son has the noisiest little duck, a pekin, in the world].
Male muscovy sigh -- not all the time, but certainly when they are excited -- when I come home they are at the gate getting excited!! They spend hours sitting on the top step by my patio doors, looking inside and when they see me they start sighing. People lable the male muscovy sound "hissing" but it is not a hiss and it isn't a mean sound.
Yes, one of my muscovy drakes -- the softest cuddliest one -- is huge and bigger than my pekins. But the other muscovy drake is about the same size as my larger pekin drake. The muscovy are intelligent enough to learn not to fight with the pekins and they resist provocation by the pekins, as they have learnt that I don't like it. My son's muscovy female is very petite -- smaller than his pekin females
I hope you are able to grow to love those two little fluffies, they are really cute and can be really great pets like Daffy, the big fat lump of a handsome bird in the photo
