Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[Wulfandwyn]

Here are the babies today. Any guesses on the colors? I think there might be some blues since one drake is blue and the other is silver and definitely black/black pied.

 

[ian4379]

blues and blacks, no silvers. you'll get silvers if you put your silver drake into blue ducks.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Thank you, she is really something when she is on eggs, I hopefully have eggs under her from my chocolate/white, blue/white, and fawn and white. We will see soon. well April 22nd.

They are very similar. Emmie Lou is beautiful. Yeah Keiko got my hand once when I was trying to get a peek at the eggs...ouch, but still not as bad as their razor claws

 

[Miss Lydia]

I see blues too. They are going to be gorgeous!!

Here are the babies today. Any guesses on the colors? I think there might be some blues since one drake is blue and the other is silver and definitely black/black pied.

 

[Miss Lydia]

They are very pretty, I am amazed at how many colors muscvies come in but I started with blk and blk and white so they will always be my favorites. I love them all.

i thought this was a good picture even though i already posted 1 of the same 3 heres another(lol pretty ducks for hathcery price from fleamarket)

 

[michaelinnc84]

i found 3 eggs the other day, i think 2 from my welsh and 1 from my muscovy and that was like 5 days ago. i have looked everywhere and cant find the eggs. anyone have any ideas what could have happened? are they hiding them from me?

 

[Miss Lydia]

i found 3 eggs the other day, i think 2 from my welsh and 1 from my muscovy and that was like 5 days ago. i have looked everywhere and cant find the eggs. anyone have any ideas what could have happened? are they hiding them from me?

Could be i turn bedding everyday and today i found 4 duck eggs under the bedding that were not there yesterday, they are very good at hiding their eggs, or you have a blk snake the ones we have here love duck eggs. also rats and weasels like duck eggs too.

 

[ian4379]

here's some pics from my latest hatches

bronze ducklings day 2




bronze ducklings day2


another bronze ducklings day2


a mum with her ducklings just hatched


group shot of her babies day 2






a six month old blue boy puffing his chest out at the birds behind him

 

[Miss Lydia]

here's some pics from my latest hatches

bronze ducklings day 2




bronze ducklings day2


another bronze ducklings day2


a mum with her ducklings just hatched


group shot of her babies day 2






a six month old blue boy puffing his chest out at the birds behind him

As always Ian you have some of the most gorgeous birds I have ever seen, what do you do with them all? I just love the colors, bronze do we even have that over here?

 

[ian4379]

lydia - i sell most of them to be honest, i've only kept 4 of the past 100 or so ducklings, i do put some in the freezer as well.

these last two batches are my first lot hatched in a while with the females over 12 months, so they all look to be decent sized, so other than on colour its going to be hard to decide which ones to keep. i can only have two drakes and 8 ducks so if a young one is better than the parent i keep it and sell the parent. its taken 2 years to get to this stage and i'm thinking 3 more to get the colour and type i want to show them. its proving hard to breed out the white and keep size at the same time. i;ve got three more girls due to hatch over the next 3 weeks and that will be it for this season, its autumn here and the days are getting colder and shorter. i've got one last girl laying but they'll be gettng sold as fertile eggs, just dont have the room! all the girls are on their 3rd clutch as well so their all looking pretty skinny and ratty, they need a break

you guys have the sepia gene over there although its apparently rare. most people think that the sepia gene is the same as bronze, some disagree, if not its very similar. we need some millionaire muscovy duck lover to travel the world and do some dna sampling of all the different colours.