Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[madar86]

 

[NYRIR]

Nice ducks! So I checked out your page...how come my ducklings didn't have the "mallard" spots? They were bright yellow to start. Now they look to have dark feathers coming in...possibly barring...hard to tell yet.

 

[Bleenie]

You could do a beauty clip so they still look unclipped. That's how I do the birds that I have to clip, I just hate the 1-winged or choppy look

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[Bleenie]

More have hatched since this so I have to take a new picture tonight!

 

[BLaBauve]

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What is a beauty clip? Mine are still too young, but eventually I will have to clip their wings so they don't fly over my fence. . .

 

[keyt1969]

I wanted to post these pics for opinions. I THINK these babies, at least the yellow and gray one is at least half Muskovy. I say half because she's LOUD like a Pekin. My thinking is the black one is Cayuga x Muskovy? Any thoughts?

They were hatched the same day but the yellow one is MUCH bigger. The only thing I know is the black one is a male the other female.

The black one has been named Harley. Have yet to come up with a name for the female. I think I'm running out of cute names lol

 

[hossfeathers]

What is a beauty clip? Mine are still too young, but eventually I will have to clip their wings so they don't fly over my fence. . .

The beauty clip I'm familiar with leaves the outer most one or two (two at the MOST) flight feathers uncut. (So 8-10 long flight feathers do get cut.) It keeps the illusion of long feathers when their wings are folded up, but there's not enough flight surface for most birds to get airborne.

Kinda like a mullet for ducks.

Here are some recent pics of mine - I passed on a drake and hen to a friend, and now have three (drake + 2 ducks) that I will keep and an extra drake that will get et.

Bo, Blue, and Beauty (the eating drake is Bourdeaux)

Beauty, who I'm pretty sure is going to grow up to be a self black.

Blue, who is, duh, blue.​

 

[elmacri]

so these are my first spring babies i bought this year all grown up with adult feathers, i was right they were muscovies, thanks for all the help and i hope you like the adult pics, and on a plus sside it looks like there is one male and four females.

one of the females

another lovely female

and our male,

also have some lovley new ones too. not sure what sex they are yet though. see what you think below.......

Hpoe you enjoyed them, xx

 

[showjumper_girl2002]

i'm a new muscovy mom and got these little guys at 3 days old

they're six days now and i'm in love!

i do everything with them from baths to watching tv lol

 

[elmacri]

I think there beaks are all wrong to be moscovy or even half breed, infact i heard that its difficult to get muscovies to breed with mallards, i might be wrong mind, whatever they are they are lovely !!!!


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