Muscovy Ducks

Gone-Ducky · Aug 31, 2011

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The Chocolate Muscovy is a handsome fellow!!! I've never seen one in person though.

Its a hen

oh my mistake

well she is a very pretty hen

NYRIR · Aug 31, 2011

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Mr and Mrs Scovie are a lovely pair! I adore the Scovie duck such wonderful creatures!

Thank you, I was told they would be white with a little black at the tails...I was so happy to see the barring

Miss Lydia · Aug 31, 2011

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I guess i was looking in all the wrong places

It's ok. You are here now, so tell us all about your ducks and post more pics if you have any.

Here are random pics from this year's photo album

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/6612_new_babys.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/6612_baby_ducks2011.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/6612_duck_in_brooder_2.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/6612_duck_in_goat_pen_2.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/6612_duck_in_goat_pen_3.jpg

I put muscovy eggs under this duck and she hatched them out. She didn't know they were not her eggs.

kuntrygirl · Aug 31, 2011

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It's ok. You are here now, so tell us all about your ducks and post more pics if you have any.

Here are random pics from this year's photo album

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/6612_new_babys.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/6612_baby_ducks2011.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/6612_duck_in_brooder_2.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/6612_duck_in_goat_pen_2.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/6612_duck_in_goat_pen_3.jpg

I put muscovy eggs under this duck and she hatched them out. She didn't know they were not her eggs.

We used the paraffin wax and that seemed to work well. It was an all day long affair. We were only able to process 15, so we still have some left but I am trying diligently to re-home them. I really don't want to have to process any more. Because I had so many, I shared some of the processed ducks with people/egg customers who have been so generous to me in that they shared fresh veggies and fruits and canned food from their own garden. I think I only had about 9 ducks to go in my freezer.

I have made up my mind that next year, I don't really want to have any hatches. They lay too many eggs and hatch too many babies. I don't want to have to deal with the same problem in that there may be too many drakes again and I won't be able to re-home them. I think I will just pick their eggs every day so they don't go broody. I will just have to visit the duck thread next year and admire everyone else's babies.

Thanks for asking about this weekend.

Miss Lydia · Aug 31, 2011

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Kuntry, love those pics, too bad they have to grow up.. how'd it go this past weekend with the skinning?

You are right. Too bad that they have to grow up.

This weekend was sad, of course. I really didn't want to process them but I knew that I had to. It was just too many drakes. I couldn't do the deed, so I had to walk away and turn my head when they did the dead. I cried when I saw them.

We used the paraffin wax and that seemed to work well. It was an all day long affair. We were only able to process 15, so we still have some left but I am trying diligently to re-home them. I really don't want to have to process any more. Because I had so many, I shared some of the processed ducks with people/egg customers who have been so generous to me in that they shared fresh veggies and fruits and canned food from their own garden. I think I only had about 9 ducks to go in my freezer.

I have made up my mind that next year, I don't really want to have any hatches. They lay too many eggs and hatch too many babies. I don't want to have to deal with the same problem in that there may be too many drakes again and I won't be able to re-home them. I think I will just pick their eggs every day so they don't go broody. I will just have to visit the duck thread next year and admire everyone else's babies.

Thanks for asking about this weekend.

It would be very hard for me too, I cry as I hand our extra roos to my dh. and it never gets easier. I'm like you even though I only had the one duckling this year next year no brooding of ducks or chickens. How many drakes do you usually keep and are they all together with the females? I am so looking forward to breeding season to be over with. I do think I'll have to get a couple more females next year just to balance things out, since i'll have 3 drakes now since our duckling turned out to be a boy. Oh well. I hope you can find homes for the boys you have left.

kuntrygirl · Aug 31, 2011

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Last year I had 4 drakes and all the rest were hens (about 50 hens). All of the ducks are all together. When those girls get to laying, they are some serious layers. I picked as many eggs as I could to try to regulate the number of hatches but I see that I failed at that.

I didn't pick enough eggs. I wish I could get down to about 4 or 5 males again. I'm surely trying.

elsfieldchickens · Dec 6, 2012

amazing birds!

Missegglayer · Dec 11, 2012

These r some really pretty pics of muscovy ducks. i wish i could post some of my pekin ducks

Valntyn · Dec 11, 2012

Find the Pekin thread(s) and post away!! Or start a thread of your own! I'm sure we'd love to see them!

laughingdog · Jul 7, 2013

Hello, i had a rescued a duckling years ago, but after it started getting better and growing i wondered why it wasn't quacking and doing other normal duck things.. found out it was what locals call "scobies", later that they were muscovy ducks. well i was hooked! i just this first monday of month, a young pair of just starting to lay scovies, with one of few eggs she layed, and clutch of dozen abandoned eggs almost hatched from other female that ran away. well homade bator broke from kittens playing, and improvised middle of night bator cooked the ready to hatch eggs.

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