Hey guys, so today i'm in a story telling/advice mode so here it goes:
So y'all know i free range my birds and some like to stay out at night right?
So anyway i love all my muscovies so very dearly i make sure they have lineage, like some of you know the story of the great duck massacre i had by some unknown predator about 3 or maybe 4 years ago that was getting all my females that were laying on nest and the not so big males, from my original flock blood line i had 10 maybe 11 left i can't remember, from that i still had the very first female i ever got. so y'all probably don't know a very dear duck i lost during that time, her name was coot, she was an all black duck with a full white head and she had green eyes, not brown or goldfish green, green. which i thought was spectacular, ( also around this time it was the summer before 8th grade and partly into 8th grade so i didn't know that much about genetics and stuff) um the year before she had two babies, two girls that were white headed as well, a barred pied baby, and a pied black baby, and are gorgeous, anyway the next year she set on one nest that i took two babies from only one of which was really hers and the other baby was the other females, then that same year when she was set on a nest something got her and i about had a frekin heart attack, you got to understand this duck i didn't hand raise, or have any particular connection to as a baby but yet she loved me she would come up to me and let me pet her and follow me around even after she had a full belly!, anyway after that the daughter that was pied and had a white head mysteriously vanished and the other female farm that is the barred pied baby was depressed that i thought she wasn't gong to make it, she wouldn't eat, fly around, and didn't really feel like flying, but after about three months she started perking up, ( also all of this was before i put my ducks up at night, anyway the two babies that coot had earlier that year made it to maybe 5 or 6 months, by then they were outside, and both of them died from something, and before one of them died she laid four eggs,( something got her and she lived for about a day and in that day she laid four eggs) and i tried to incubate them but that was when i had to turn the eggs myself and there was no humidity control and the eggs didn't hatch, so now from that line all i have is farm, and i try to keep her safe but she has become a wildish duck, i mean she'll still come up to you and stuff, but you have to catch her to pick her up, but once you pick her up she's like okay well i guess you love me, so she calms down. so she's a semi tamed duck, and i try to put her up at night but most of the time i'm unsuccessful. so i'm hoping to mate her this year and get at least two of her eggs hatched. So i thought i should just share this story and about coot and her 4 daughters ( one possibly not being hers) and out of those only one making it, but she could have layer in other females nest and have more babies that i don't know of so you know she could have had more babies
So y'all know i free range my birds and some like to stay out at night right?
So anyway i love all my muscovies so very dearly i make sure they have lineage, like some of you know the story of the great duck massacre i had by some unknown predator about 3 or maybe 4 years ago that was getting all my females that were laying on nest and the not so big males, from my original flock blood line i had 10 maybe 11 left i can't remember, from that i still had the very first female i ever got. so y'all probably don't know a very dear duck i lost during that time, her name was coot, she was an all black duck with a full white head and she had green eyes, not brown or goldfish green, green. which i thought was spectacular, ( also around this time it was the summer before 8th grade and partly into 8th grade so i didn't know that much about genetics and stuff) um the year before she had two babies, two girls that were white headed as well, a barred pied baby, and a pied black baby, and are gorgeous, anyway the next year she set on one nest that i took two babies from only one of which was really hers and the other baby was the other females, then that same year when she was set on a nest something got her and i about had a frekin heart attack, you got to understand this duck i didn't hand raise, or have any particular connection to as a baby but yet she loved me she would come up to me and let me pet her and follow me around even after she had a full belly!, anyway after that the daughter that was pied and had a white head mysteriously vanished and the other female farm that is the barred pied baby was depressed that i thought she wasn't gong to make it, she wouldn't eat, fly around, and didn't really feel like flying, but after about three months she started perking up, ( also all of this was before i put my ducks up at night, anyway the two babies that coot had earlier that year made it to maybe 5 or 6 months, by then they were outside, and both of them died from something, and before one of them died she laid four eggs,( something got her and she lived for about a day and in that day she laid four eggs) and i tried to incubate them but that was when i had to turn the eggs myself and there was no humidity control and the eggs didn't hatch, so now from that line all i have is farm, and i try to keep her safe but she has become a wildish duck, i mean she'll still come up to you and stuff, but you have to catch her to pick her up, but once you pick her up she's like okay well i guess you love me, so she calms down. so she's a semi tamed duck, and i try to put her up at night but most of the time i'm unsuccessful. so i'm hoping to mate her this year and get at least two of her eggs hatched. So i thought i should just share this story and about coot and her 4 daughters ( one possibly not being hers) and out of those only one making it, but she could have layer in other females nest and have more babies that i don't know of so you know she could have had more babies
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Wanted to share some pics of some of mine
