My Muscovies are molting. They look so scraggly. I am not planning on clipping wings again (unless they suddenly develop wanderlust, which considering they sit in their pen all day even when I open the gate seems unlikely). They will be living in my garden over the winter and it is not as secure as their pen, so leaving the wings not clipped should allow the females to fly to escape any predators that show up. Hopefully there won't be too many predators. We will be using our now defunct upright freezer as a house for them, modifying it by cutting the door in half and using 1/2 for an "awning" and the other half will stay shut, giving them a warm, secure house and protection from the cold. Not sure how it will work out but we thought it was worth a try.
They look so nice after the molt is done, think long term lol I don't clip any of my birds, they free range during the daylight so i feel that is the best i can do, providing them an 'out' in case something does attempt an attack.
but at the same time I'm happy 
, i have 16 babies right now and let me say they are quite a handful like 6 of them are still inside and they are started feather picking/ eating so i had to separate them into 2 groups of 2 and two more cages holding one, one of the babies was the main culprit and the other baby thats by itself kept getting picked on since she's the only white one out of the group so her white juvenile feathers kept sticking out to them. 
