Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[Double Kindness]

It did help, thanks! Now idk about sexing muscovy ducks yet and I keep second guessing myself on the 4 I just brought home. I still am having problems uploading picts from my phone this morning.

 

[Miss Lydia]

It did help, thanks! Now idk about sexing muscovy ducks yet and I keep second guessing myself on the 4 I just brought home. I still am having problems uploading picts from my phone this morning.

How old are they? usually by 5-6 weeks the drakes are starting to out grow the ducks and it's much easier to tell them apart. there are other things to look for too. leg size body length. were the legs sit under the duck.

 

[Double Kindness]

They are between 3-5 months old I think I have no idea this has been a new critter for me over the last month. It seems like my phone is being uncooperative today in uploading picts, but I think one of my new dark chocolate ducks is a duck not a drake. I hope.

 

[Buck Oakes]

Good news Buck, How's your drakes eye looking?

yesterday i got to rinse out his eye and i could see his relief since he just had it opened while i sprayed it with vetercyn and rinsed it with water, and shook his tail so i hope it looks better today i haven't seen him yet so we'll see

 

[Buck Oakes]

just saw his eye and it looks a lot better !

 

[Miss Lydia]

just saw his eye and it looks a lot better !

Good news but spray with the Veterycin but don't wash it out with water, let the Veterycin do its work

 

[lehcar52duck]

I put them in thier coop for the first time last night now thier afraid to cone out

 

[Miss Lydia]

I put them in thier coop for the first time last night now thier afraid to cone out

Is their food and water inside or out? It's takes a while but they will get us to being closed up, safer for them. If they like treats of some kind you might try putting some right outside the door and as they eat them place a little farther away till at least one is all the way out once 1 comes most likely the rest will follow. Put their food and water outside but close by so they can see it.

 

[Buck Oakes]

Good news but spray with the Veterycin but don't wash it out with water, let the Veterycin do its work

I did I rinsed it out with water before I put in the vetercyn

 

[Going Quackers]

I put them in thier coop for the first time last night now thier afraid to cone out

Pretty typical of ducks, i hung a new feeder a few years ago in the barn well geez nobody would go in. In time they will, some treats outside may entice too.