Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[Duck Keeper]

Definitely a scovie, see how the tail is level with her body and doesn't curl up like the others'?

Oh and one more thing... AWWWW I wish mine would hatch!

EDIT: By the way, mallard-derived breeds (swedish & khakis for example

) and muscovies can breed together, but any offspring from them is basically worthless, since it cannot breed. Muscovy male and a MD duck can make a good meat bird though, or so I've read.

 

[Goat_Walker]

Lol i knew it was a scovie , just not sure if he/she is for sure a girl or not - im thinking so since drakes usually frow alot faster.

no ducky is ever worthless! Scovie crosses are still beautiful fluffy butted duckies who deserve lots of love

Silly goose.... Worthless Duck .. Psssh

 

[Duck Keeper]

Well -I- know that! I'm just saying, some people don't think of their ducks as anything other than food or breeding machines.

I love my babies. ♥

 

[Goat_Walker]

Duckies are so cute! I honestly cant imagine my life with out ducks - Ever. LOL They are too much fun.

 

[Duck Keeper]

Gah, I know.

I've been hit /HARD/ by the poultry disease.




But I don't think I'd have it any other way.

 

[keeperofthehearth]

Goat_Walker! What a cute Scovie. I know you waited a loooong time to get one. Your little Scovie matches your other duckies very well. Cute flock!

Quackmire, 10wks is still pretty young for much caruncling. A few of my boys have just a single thick ridge above and around their bills, like your Quackmire, only thicker but they are about 14wks old. They are white heads, granted w/more white already, but like your Quackmire is going to be. That said, are you SURE Quackmire is a boy?

Thanks for the reply, John. I will pass your compliment on to Charlotte.

Charlotte IS pretty. She also has a longer & more elegant body line than my other adult girls. Her & Dukes boys are big and her barred girls are larger than the barred girls fm my other breeding females.

Yet she is not a Wild Type, but rather 'Black'/Atipico

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We have one boy who is also. I do wonder if Duke was 'Black'/Atipico as a duckling and not a Wild Type. I'm going to try to get some close up photo's of the Scovies caruncling so I can do some comparisons. We won't be overwintering more than 2 or poss. 3 extra drakes. I'm hoping to keep a few extra ducks/hens also. The girls are just so sweet in general and it would be very tempting to keep a whole flock of them .... but​

 

[Bleenie]

Here's pics of my others, I decided each pen would have 1 white hen..just for variety

. they're all still babies(under 6months), so theyre still developing their colors. Lilly changed from buff to silver within 2 weeks, it was really weird.

She's the same color as Montie now.

Black/Blue/Silvers:

Sidney

Montie

Nibbles

Velvet

Lilly- her feet have turned nearly solid blue now too!

Ginny

Baby (name suggestions?), she's coming in a really nice, dark blue

Chocolate/Lilacs:

Young Drake (didn't get a picture of him yet), He's VERY chocolate colored in his fluff but is feathering into a really pretty lilac!

Yeggi

Kahlua

Pretty

Mocha

Baby (name suggestions?)

 

[Quackmire]

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Nope, no idea if Q is boy/girl. We've always just kinda called "him" a he.

Actually, from what I'm reading, he is a little on the small side, so it is very possible that he is really a she.

I assume a gal will have less carunkling than a boy....

 

[keeperofthehearth]

Quackmire, yes, your assumption is right. Gals have less carnucling than the boys. A few of my big ducks/hens are not much smaller than my smaller drakes soooo .....

Bleenie, Your Muscovies are just beautiful! I just love Sidney!
I just love his coloring & body shape. My Charlotte has that same shape. Just beautiful! Be sure to post updated pics of them once the younger ones molt out into adult feathering.

 

[Bleenie]

I definitely will. Sid is still going through his 'big molt' but everyone else is lagging a little. sid & kahlua have a lor more white & blue on them...its hard to tell Pretty & Kahlua apart these days!

I think everyone Should be fully colored in by January.

i was so overwhelmed when i found the breeder, i couldnt believe all the pretty colors she had, especially since we used to only have blacks & whites!