Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[MnmMonster]

So my boy has started breeding with my females yesterday for the first time (all are about a year old) will my ladies start to lay soon because of this? Or is my boy just being a horny pest?

 

[Julie Birb]

How did muscovies get that red tissue wattling (sp?) on their faces? What wild duck species has it? I am just curious.

 

[Onlyducks]

They were wild ducks—still are some places. They are more or less domesticated at this point when kept by people. However, they are known to fly off if their wings aren't clipped, so I'm thinking not totally domesticated! (Domestic ducks came from mallards and muscovies.)

 

[Lndavies]

Here's mine in the hens house, they love to sit on the roots right under the heat lamp

 

[Buck Oakes]

How did muscovies get that red tissue wattling (sp?) on their faces? What wild duck species has it? I am just curious.

ooo i love doing history lessons!!

okay so we know that South America and Africa split due to continental drift right.

so there is this goes in Africa called the spur goose and it has red on its face just like the muscovy duck

Anyway these to animals due to geographic history hypothesis came from the same ancestor, but the muscovy duck also is related to the comb duck

But the reason why it has the red is for rank, breeding, and age purposes. the more red the color in males the higher the dominace, the redder in females means the females are ready to breed and older male and females have more of a crest in size

 

[Onlyducks]

My muscovies hiding out from the wind:

They really do not like wind. We have had winds around 30 mph most of the day. When we went out to herd them into the greenhouse for the night, there was no argument on their part! They just waddled right over and into the greenhouse!
I put some tomato pieces in for them. They did not seem to like tomatoes in the past, but I thought I'd try again.

 

[MsPoultry]

So my boy has started breeding with my females yesterday for the first time (all are about a year old) will my ladies start to lay soon because of this? Or is my boy just being a horny pest?

well like chickens ducks don't need a male around to lay so your hens will start to lay when their bodies are ready for it so at the moment your drake isn't really doing anything

ooo i love doing history lessons!!

okay so we know that South America and Africa split due to continental drift right.

so there is this goes in Africa called the spur goose and it has red on its face just like the muscovy duck

Anyway these to animals due to geographic history hypothesis came from the same ancestor, but the muscovy duck also is related to the comb duck

But the reason why it has the red is for rank, breeding, and age purposes. the more red the color in males the higher the dominace, the redder in females means the females are ready to breed and older male and females have more of a crest in size 

I didn't know that glad to know now though

 

[Julie Birb]

Thank you Onlyducks and Buck Oakes!! I had no idea about any of that. It's very interesting.

 

[Buck Oakes]

They were wild ducks—still are some places. They are more or less domesticated at this point when kept by people. However, they are known to fly off if their wings aren't clipped, so I'm thinking not totally domesticated! (Domestic ducks came from mallards and muscovies.)

actually muscovies don't have any domestic descendance like mallards do. Muscovies are actually non domesticated birds. we call them non domesticated because humans didn't have a role in developing the species, like descendance of mallards. And yes muscovies are still wild in South america and Latin america, thy are very beautiful and look very similar to ours we have have on the farms

 

[Buck Oakes]

And originally muscovies already had the colors that we have today we just bred them so that they would show up more often