Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[MsPoultry]

that'll be fun a couple years back on of my hens went broody and I knew any day they would hatch and I was walking to the coop and one little chick was peeping and running around the coop with its mom sadly one of its toes was pecked off from another hen but she was a happy chick still

 

[Julie Birb]

Ms Poultry, your avatar is ADORABLE!!

 

[MsPoultry]

Thanks!

 

[txcarl1258]

Does anyone know what happens when you cross chocolate and lavender? Chocolate is so pretty and I'd love to add some chocolate hens. Just curious what I'd get with my lavender drake over them.

Lavender chocolate is called cream. I have never seen one in person, but from pictures they appear to be a cream colored almost off white. Since lavender is recessive your best bet is to cross your lavender drake with chocolate females. This will give you black males split to chocolate and lavender and black females split to lavender. Take one of your split drakes from this breeding and cross him with his sisters. It may take a while but you should be able to hatch some cream ducklings. However any creams that hatch from this cross will be female since it is a sex linked gene and the females only need one copy to show the color.

Hope this makes sense.

 

[Pyxis]

Thanks for the explanation! So it seems that from the first generation all offspring would be black. The second generation crossed together sounds like it could produce lavender, chocolate, and cream, depending on the genetics of the particular birds crossed. Very interesting and I think I'll go ahead and get some chocolates.

 

[dan26552]

Lavender chocolate is called cream. I have never seen one in person, but from pictures they appear to be a cream colored almost off white. Since lavender is recessive your best bet is to cross your lavender drake with chocolate females. This will give you black males split to chocolate and lavender and black females split to lavender. Take one of your split drakes from this breeding and cross him with his sisters. It may take a while but you should be able to hatch some cream ducklings. However any creams that hatch from this cross will be female since it is a sex linked gene and the females only need one copy to show the color.

Hope this makes sense.

I thought chocolate was the only sex linked gene?

 

[Buck Oakes]

it is

 

[InvertedKitty]

Hi guys. I am in need of a bit of advice. .... my ducks are feathering out currently (5 months) and I have one male that literally rips the other ducks new feathers out n eats them. They are on a 20% duck/ geese/ turkey feed... and get mealworms tossed in... as well as random greens daily. .. I have multiple food stations and water. .. I am not sure how to stop it. I separated him for a bit but he still picks at them until bleeding. Thoughts?

 

[MsPoultry]

Keep him away from them my turkey hen does that for fun to baby birds and he may get more violent if not stopped one of my hens practically ate another young hen because of her age and rank.

 

[dan26552]

Keep him away from them my turkey hen does that for fun to baby birds and he may get more violent if not stopped one of my hens practically ate another young hen because of her age and rank.

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