I'm like Faraday, I only know chickens and turkeys, not ducks. But if she is sitting on eggs, I would venture that she is not mating with the male anymore. With turkeys, I have read that once they lay their fertile clutch and go broody and sit, any leftover sperm gets destroyed. (Not sure how true that is.) So if she's been on eggs a while, and you have a way to isolate her, then I'd say that you could probably go ahead and mate her to the blue male right away, when she is done being broody. Is she going to be hatching these eggs and raising babies? Maybe you can get her over to your friend's before she starts mating again.I plan on taking one of my female Muscovy girls over to a friends house so their Blue Male Muscovy can breed with her. I have a male of my own, but he is Chocolate and I really want Blue Muscovies!
My questions are:
1.) How long should I separate her from my male before taking her to mate with another male for the Blue males genes?
2.) If my chocolate male mates my female and I take her to mate with different male. Would the new male's genes be the one to fertilize the eggs? Or will my chocolate be the daddy?
My female I have chosen to breed with Mr.Blue is on a clutch of eggs right now. But in July I plan on taking her to breed with Mr.Blue.
This is the female I'm going to breed with Mr. Blue
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