Incubation progress of Muscovy eggs

[MuscovyLover]

Does anybody have any clearer ideas about colour and sex for Pip?
She/he is four weeks old tomorrow and I just LOVE the black marks she's developed on the back of her neck

 

[subhanalah]

Give it another week and ask us again lol.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Does anybody have any clearer ideas about colour and sex for Pip?
She/he is four weeks old tomorrow and I just LOVE the black marks she's developed on the back of her neck

I'll step out on a limb and say girl, but this statement may come back to haunt me. lol I am going by 1st pic she has round lil body. short tail.

 

[MuscovyLover]

I'll step out on a limb and say girl, but this statement may come back to haunt me. lol  I am going by 1st pic she has round lil body. short tail. 

She does have a stubby little tail. I was worried that was a boy thing so I'm reassured

 

[MuscovyLover]

Give it another week and ask us again lol.

Oh don't worry I will lol

 

[Miss Lydia]

Oh don't worry I will lol

By 6 weeks we'll for sure know.

look at your drakes you have now though there is a big difference in body shape, how legs sit under body too. leg on drakes sit farther apart under the body ducks legs are closer together and they actually look like they are going to step on their own feet when walking.

 

[MuscovyLover]

By 6 weeks we'll for sure know.    look at your drakes you have now though there is a big difference in body shape, how legs sit under body too. leg on drakes sit farther apart under the body ducks legs are closer together and they actually look like they are going to step on their own feet when walking. 

I've only got the four adults (1 drake, 3 gals) but I have been observing thier shapes etc and comparing it to Pip but there's lots of little conflicting things. Each time she grows a little more her stance and walk etc change. It would be SOOO much easier if she'd been hatched with others to compare lol.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I've only got the four adults (1 drake, 3 gals) but I have been observing thier shapes etc and comparing it to Pip but there's lots of little conflicting things. Each time she grows a little more her stance and walk etc change. It would be SOOO much easier if she'd been hatched with others to compare lol.

They do like to keep us guessing but it won't be long now before you know for sure. I'm hoping for a girl for you.

 

[muscovyslover]

So, here are the babies!!!







I am absolutely in love with them. It's a bummer the 6th one didn't make it, especially when it was so close.

They are all almost identical, so unfortunately naming them is out of the question (which sucks because I had been thinking of some cute names for them). Some of them do have a brownish shade to them, though. Does this mean they will turn out to be chocolate muscovies as adults? Is that even a possibility, since mom was black and white, and I'm fairly certain dad was as well?

 

[MuscovyLover]

They do like to keep us guessing but it won't be long now before you know for sure. I'm hoping for a girl for you. 

Thanks