I have a huge colony of ducks. There are Muscovies in it. Five to be exact, four males and one female. However, they are all related. Gen 1 was two ducks from different sources. My mum's friend had found two ducks wandering outside her house, one a muscovy girl and the other a silver appleyard boy. Mum said she wouldn't take them, but managed to convince her. The muscovy was tame, and if you sat down and reached out to her, or called her name then she would come. With plenty of girl ducks of his own breed, the drake and Esmerelda (as we called the scovy) grew apart. A friend then offered for us to take one of her hefty meat muscovies, my mum agreed as she loves muscovies (and wanted a friend for Essie) So we bought home a huge grey muscovy male. The two bonded, and were soon inseparable. And I was overjoyed when I found Essie sitting on a nest. She hatched twelve babies, and all of them survived to maturity.
However one day my Granny (who lives on the farm with us BTW) sold most of the female muscovies without mine or Mum's consent. We only had two left, and when Esmerelda was sold she had been sitting on a nest. I was at my dad's for the weekend, so there was nothing I could do.
However, about a year later a creamy colour muscovy (one of Essie's babies) sat on a nest in my grandad's tiny, two cow cowshed. I had known about the nest, although had gotten bored going to check on it everyday. However, one day I had just got home from school (That was when I still went, I'm homeschooled now) we were going down the driveway, and then I saw a little bird. It took me a few seconds to realize it was a duckling that had wandered from the nest. Of course Mum wouldn't let me just go get it, I had to get out of my uniform first. I raced down and picked the little guy up, he was cold (and a muscovy). I took him inside,cared for him, and he is now full grown (PLEASE NOTE-THAT HE WAS A GREY BABY WITH A YELLOW CHEST) However many of the male muscovies were sold also. And a few got run over by my stepdad, on foggy mornings in the mad dash to work. So yesterday the cream muscovy hatched some ducklings and the first duckling of hers I got (Vanilla creamy) was the only survivor of her brood, the rest of the babies were all dead within a school day.
I took the two ducklings that had hatched so far, as well as the eggs and put them under a chicken. However a GRAY BABY WITH A YELLOW CHEST kept wandering away from the nest, and getting chilled. Today I believed all the eggs that had hatched, were all that was going to. I opened the other eggs, and none were rotten, they all held a dead baby each. Two Babies died in the nest today (a gray with a yellow chest and a solid yellow) The wandering duckling went out of the nest at night and got a bad chill. I found him and he's now warming up, although in a terrible condition, is this the result of inbreeding or what? I need advice on what to do... Please note that one duckling has a weird squishy bump on his beak
However one day my Granny (who lives on the farm with us BTW) sold most of the female muscovies without mine or Mum's consent. We only had two left, and when Esmerelda was sold she had been sitting on a nest. I was at my dad's for the weekend, so there was nothing I could do.
However, about a year later a creamy colour muscovy (one of Essie's babies) sat on a nest in my grandad's tiny, two cow cowshed. I had known about the nest, although had gotten bored going to check on it everyday. However, one day I had just got home from school (That was when I still went, I'm homeschooled now) we were going down the driveway, and then I saw a little bird. It took me a few seconds to realize it was a duckling that had wandered from the nest. Of course Mum wouldn't let me just go get it, I had to get out of my uniform first. I raced down and picked the little guy up, he was cold (and a muscovy). I took him inside,cared for him, and he is now full grown (PLEASE NOTE-THAT HE WAS A GREY BABY WITH A YELLOW CHEST) However many of the male muscovies were sold also. And a few got run over by my stepdad, on foggy mornings in the mad dash to work. So yesterday the cream muscovy hatched some ducklings and the first duckling of hers I got (Vanilla creamy) was the only survivor of her brood, the rest of the babies were all dead within a school day.
I took the two ducklings that had hatched so far, as well as the eggs and put them under a chicken. However a GRAY BABY WITH A YELLOW CHEST kept wandering away from the nest, and getting chilled. Today I believed all the eggs that had hatched, were all that was going to. I opened the other eggs, and none were rotten, they all held a dead baby each. Two Babies died in the nest today (a gray with a yellow chest and a solid yellow) The wandering duckling went out of the nest at night and got a bad chill. I found him and he's now warming up, although in a terrible condition, is this the result of inbreeding or what? I need advice on what to do... Please note that one duckling has a weird squishy bump on his beak
Glad you've got 4 healthy little ones to enjoy!
