Muscovies in US - REGULATION CHANGES OPEN FOR COMMENTS - 10/1 update

[Danaus29]

Not yet. I'm on the notification list (according to Dr. Allen) but haven't heard anything yet.

 

[Mac_]

Dr. Allen told me that he would notify everyone that had sent him an e-mail regarding Muscovies when the new proposed rules were published.

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

Any news yet??? Oh I am so hoping to have this overturned....I do not think it's fair to make us get rid of our ducks..It just isn't. what about those ppl. with bad bad dogs and snakes being turned loose...ughhh...I could just go on and on.

 

[Mac_]

The following response from Dr. Allen was e-mailed to me today.

Mac

I plan to notify folks who wrote to me or emailed me. It may take me a few days to notify everyone.

The title of the proposed rule in the Federal Register will be "Migratory Bird Permits; Revisions to the Waterfowl Permit Exceptions and Waterfowl Sale and Disposal Permits Regulations for Muscovy Ducks." I expect it to be published at the end of next week.

George​

 

[keeperofthehearth]

TKS, Mac_ !!

 

[Caprice_Acres]

I hope this has acceptable revisions. I plan on pinioning all of my Muscovy ducklings that hatch next year, but am NOT looking forward to it. I am also thinking about banding the adult ducks. Where does one get bands for them?

 

[swheat]

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I had already decided to pinion my ducklings this year because I didn't want them flying to nearby private owned ponds for fear of them being shot. If you take sharp scissors and at day old there usually isn't any blood at all, I did pinion a couple at 3 day and I just held the wing nice and tight with my fingers for a couple of minutes at the cut to stop the bleeding(which wasn't much).

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

Where will everyone find this information? Not every one has a computer that has muscovies..or at least know what's going on.

 

[Mac_]

Muscovies have been domesticated since the 1500s. They are raised as livestock around the world.

I'm of the strong opinion that the FWS is overstepping their legal authority to try and regulate livestock. Yes, the migratory bill treaty does get involved, but I don't believe that this really changes anything. If congress signs a treaty that abridges one of our rights, what takes priority, the Constitution or the treaty?

There will be a public comment period once the rules are published. I think that it's 90 days.

I'm going to push for the following:

Amend '21.14 Permit exceptions for captive-bred migratory waterfowl other than mallard ducks' to include the following language:

1. "Domestic Muscovies have a long history of domestication and have long been raised as livestock both in the United States and around the world. Muscovy ducks that are owned as livestock (for the production of meat, eggs, or breeding stock), pets, or for exhibition, shall be considered domestic Muscovy ducks."

2. "No migratory bird permit(s) shall be required to possess, propagate, or sell (as live birds, meat, or eggs) domestic Muscovy ducks."

3. "The intentional release of domestic Muscovy ducks to the wild shall be prohibited."

4. "You may not take Muscovy ducks or their eggs from the wild, unless such taking is provided for elsewhere in this subchapter."

Do not place any additional restrictions on domestic Muscovy ducks other than items 2-4 above.

Keep '21.54 Control order for muscovy ducks in the United States' in effect without revision. It seems important that landowners, and Federal, State, Tribal and local wildlife management agencies be able to control feral populations Muscovy ducks in areas where they are not native without a depredation permit.​

 

[swheat]

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Yes, I agree.