Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[Buck Oakes]

if you can't tell yet then you might have to wait even longer, some people can tell on the first few days others within the first month, if this is your first clutch of muscovies then you might need to figure out how males act to how females act

 

[Scovy Momma]

Omg scovy momma that brown and white scovy is beautiful
Love that colour.
wash she brown and yellow born?

Mine is white, sweetie!

 

[svfarm]

It looks like my favorite two that my duck hatched are boys

 

[Crumcakes]

Friends, I am at a loss. After almost 2 months the mother duck has been pecking at one duckling. The other 6 duckling join in. I found her bloody about the head and I removed her.

I've isolated the pecked duckling and she cries for her brood. She seems better today so we released the ducklings from the day pen and allowed the hurt duckling to interact. She followed them around, then all of a sudden the momma started pecking her and they all started mocking her. I immediately scooped her back up. I just don't understand this.

Mine free range. I only penned them up because I feared the ducklings would get taken by turtles or worse since we live surrounded by a creek. Our other female brown Scovey brought four ducks back, just brand new hatched. So we penned those up with her.

I'm a nervous wreck now because I've never had any act in such a way. I can't quite distinguish males or females just yet from the first clutch born.

Here's the brand new ones.

 

[Amykins]

Oh, the poor thing...I wish I could help you. Sometimes moms recognize something is wrong, something that we aren't even able to see. I know she keeps crying for her family, but since he's still so little, maybe you could try to make him into a house duck? Bean wasn't imprinted on people when I got her, but she's very strongly bonded all the same.

 

[Crumcakes]

He was all bloody. Very pecked around the head, and beak. He's scabbed over today. He's eating and drinking well. And going potty.
So scenario, if I get him well.. Try to reintroduce in a couple weeks maybe or will they ever take him in? :/

 

[casportpony]

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He was all bloody. Very pecked around the head, and beak. He's scabbed over today. He's eating and drinking well. And going potty.
So scenario, if I get him well.. Try to reintroduce in a couple weeks maybe or will they ever take him in? :/

Is it a differerent color than the others? I've had some that will single out one that's a different color and pick on it.

-Kathy

 

[Crumcakes]

He isn't. There were three similarity colored to him, three dark and yellow and one all yellow. Makes me sad.

 

[Buck Oakes]

He was all bloody. Very pecked around the head, and beak. He's scabbed over today. He's eating and drinking well. And going potty.
So scenario, if I get him well.. Try to reintroduce in a couple weeks maybe or will they ever take him in?

they're establishing a pecking order, he should be fine if he submits, but to help them stop pecking i would recommend putting cornstarch on him or baby powder, they dont like the texture and there for won't peck and bite at him

 

[Amykins]

they're establishing a pecking order, he should be fine if he submits, but to help them stop pecking i would recommend putting cornstarch on him or baby powder, they dont like the texture and there for won't peck and bite at him

I have never heard of a mother duck attack her baby because of a pecking order, let alone target a single duckling over it.