Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[Pyxis]

I should have some chocolate ripple and split ripple in the spring. I have a pair of chocolate ripples and a black hen that I will cross with my ripple drake.

Awesome! I'll send you a pm so we can stay in touch. Ideally I'd like either my lavender hen or my goose to hatch them so I'll have to wait till one goes broody, but last year the goose actually brooded in February, so I'm not worried that it'll take long, lol.

 

[txcarl1258]

Ok sounds good. I need to test fertility first before I sell any. I just noticed you are in NY and I am in TX. I am willing to ship them, but unsure of how they will do on that long of a journey.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Isn't it past baby season though? i know a friend of mine was having a devil of a time with foxes and her birds this past summer they had a den up the road but it's basically winter now(i realize climates differ) most young by now would be pretty sharp at hunting, of coarse if there was a what do they call multiple foxes? herd, flock ,,,

I don't think foxes stay together once kits get a certain age but not sure if they stay with their moms through winter or not.

 

[Miss Lydia]

The change over of that drake is normal, and something i have seen on many an occasion in both sexes actually, usually the white shows the 2nd year, that is why it's hard to know how a young bird will develop.. the first year they may show little white, the following? bam!

My black solid female now i have had her over a year... she was almost zero white last year and into the spring, now? quite a bit on the wings...this is why i refer to scovies as Chameleons.

They really are.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I won't be able to do anything till tomorrow.

I hope you can find her hopefully she didn't go far.

 

[Miss Lydia]

yes but it could have made several trips for babies and foxes are rarer but one visited my coop little stinker but oh well

Very true, foxes are everywhere we have seen quite a few here and I'm sure there are many more, I think what keeps most preds away during daylight is my dogs barking, having lil dachshunds they love to bark. They aren't in the fence with the flock but just being close may deter preds from coming around. Now Hawks is another story, they have been coming around quite a bit lately now that the leaves are off the trees. I have put out more predator tape

 

[Going Quackers]

I don't think foxes stay together once kits get a certain age but not sure if they stay with their moms through winter or not.

See that one i don't know either, i have never seen multiple foxes together only lone ones crossing roads.. of coarse i have a big coyote/wolf population here including puma sitings over the years so foxes aren't about to be to 'out there' lol

 

[Going Quackers]

I hope you can find her hopefully she didn't go far.

I do hope you find her. I know that feeling and it's terrible.

 

[Going Quackers]

Very true, foxes are everywhere we have seen quite a few here and I'm sure there are many more, I think what keeps most preds away during daylight is my dogs barking, having lil dachshunds they love to bark. They aren't in the fence with the flock but just being close may deter preds from coming around. Now Hawks is another story, they have been coming around quite a bit lately now that the leaves are off the trees. I have put out more predator tape

YOu know something interesting in a conversation months ago on a provincial forum i go too about wild animals, their has been real issue with having the city ones dumped rurally, and they are much bolder than the country/rural animals..

I know around here... the openness of my fields aids me greatly, across the road is not and mainly conservation land... i am surrounded by large predators .. kinda like an island here. I have a lot more to loose than birds (as you know) so i am always on the watch for whether i need to upgrade to a LGD...

 

[dan26552]

YOu know something interesting in a conversation months ago on a provincial forum i go too about wild animals, their has been real issue with having the city ones dumped rurally, and they are much bolder than the country/rural animals..

I know around here... the openness of my fields aids me greatly, across the road is not and mainly conservation land... i am surrounded by large predators .. kinda like an island here. I have a lot more to loose than birds (as you know) so i am always on the watch for whether i need to upgrade to a LGD...

If you want something to guard your animals but not quite as large (or hairy) as a LGD you might look into English shepherds