Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[Miss Lydia]

Here are some of the Muscovys

Love their lil faces, so pretty.

 

[learycow]

Ancona calls :yiipchick even better than magpie

Here's a few of my babies. Can't wait for eggs in the spring!

 

[Buck Oakes]

Ok seriously you just gave me a cuteness attack !!' We're getting some calls in spring so fingers crossed the breeder has some magpies/Ancona's ready to go!!!

 

[learycow]

Ok seriously you just gave me a cuteness attack !!' We're getting some calls in spring so fingers crossed the breeder has some magpies/Ancona's ready to go!!!

Where/ who are you getting them from?

 

[Buck Oakes]

I'm getting them locally from a guy i met at the fair , his name is ray perry.

 

[learycow]

Never heard of him. If he doesn't let me know. I have some adults for sale now but will be selling hatching eggs and ducklings from my magpie/ancona calls in the spring/summer

 

[Buck Oakes]

Kk )

 

[Going Quackers]

Here's a few of my babies. Can't wait for eggs in the spring!

Those are some fun colours! i only have greys, blue fawn and 1 that looks like a mini appleyard maybe one day i will some more colours.

 

[Pyxis]

Well I didn't want to do it but it had to be done. Tonight the drake and one of the ducks had their wings clipped. Only those two, because the other two are AWOL and I can't find them, and that's the line. It's one thing to make me gather you up in the afternoon and herd you in at night but when I can't find you and you're out all night unprotected? You lose flying privileges. The one duck wasn't out of the pen and the drake was outside the pen but wouldn't leave her, so he was okay to round up. Then both of them lost their feathers on one wing. Tomorrow when I can manage to hunt down the other two ducks they're getting clipped too. I understand wanting to free range but until they learn to stay in the yard and come in at night they don't get to. If they learn to behave I won't clip them again after their next molt. I was really trying to avoid this and tried a bunch of different ways of covering the pen but today in order to get out they literally tore down the chicken wire and tarp over the pen to create a gap to go through. Of course now they're gonna be mad at me but I'm hoping that since it happened after dark they won't recognize it was me that did it.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Well I didn't want to do it but it had to be done. Tonight the drake and one of the ducks had their wings clipped. Only those two, because the other two are AWOL and I can't find them, and that's the line. It's one thing to make me gather you up in the afternoon and herd you in at night but when I can't find you and you're out all night unprotected? You lose flying privileges. The one duck wasn't out of the pen and the drake was outside the pen but wouldn't leave her, so he was okay to round up. Then both of them lost their feathers on one wing. Tomorrow when I can manage to hunt down the other two ducks they're getting clipped too. I understand wanting to free range but until they learn to stay in the yard and come in at night they don't get to. If they learn to behave I won't clip them again after their next molt. I was really trying to avoid this and tried a bunch of different ways of covering the pen but today in order to get out they literally tore down the chicken wire and tarp over the pen to create a gap to go through. Of course now they're gonna be mad at me but I'm hoping that since it happened after dark they won't recognize it was me that did it.

They'll get over it and be safe which is what counts, Hope the other 2 come home this morning. They just don't realize the dangers out there and need us to protect them, I have to clip wings here too. they wouldn't last a night.