Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[EdenCamp]

Lilac is a blue shade with brown blended in? Kind of a chocolate lilac? Like this? Nn+ L+L+ chch

 

[EdenCamp]

This one started out looking what I would call blue but color has changed and now wondering if a blue fawn? Still up in the air as to gender. I couldn't find the genetic notation for it.
Any help here?

 

[EdenCamp]

This one started out white with some what I would call buff or light tan flecks on breast and tail. Then white. Now, a grey tail and some buff on breast and throat. Some pretty heavy legs so leaning towards male. Help on coloring and gender would be great!

 

[EdenCamp]

SCORE!!!!!

Found some young girls - a buff and two chocolate/white! Tommorow picking up choc/whites drakes and ducks!
Duck math is a lot like chicken math isn't it? LOL!

 

[Miss Lydia]

SCORE!!!!!

Found some young girls - a buff and two chocolate/white! Tommorow picking up choc/whites drakes and ducks!
Duck math is a lot like chicken math isn't it? LOL!

Yes it is. as much fun too.

 

[yo burrill]

MY poor trio of scoveys are shivering already!!! What do any of you in Northern climates do to winterize your birds?? I was going to keep mine with the chickens but they are mean to them so now they are in the chicken tractor bedded in with hay, really not quite big enough for them but its all I have, Do you let them free range in the winter or keep them in...

 

[Miss Lydia]

MY poor trio of scoveys are shivering already!!! What do any of you in Northern climates do to winterize your birds?? I was going to keep mine with the chickens but they are mean to them so now they are in the chicken tractor bedded in with hay, really not quite big enough for them but its all I have, Do you let them free range in the winter or keep them in...

Mine are only closed up at night, during the day they are outside and can come and go as they please. Try and give them places where they can get out of the wind, hunker down under or behind something. We even put up a tarp at the front of our wood shed so them and the chickens can get behind it and out of the harsh cold wind. watch for frost bite on their carnucles usually it's the drakes that can get it. You can use vaseline on their carnucles when it gets really frigid. Tractors are open on all sides right? is there some way you can close in all but one side the south side. They need fresh air and being open on the south side would give them fresh air but the wind wouldn't be blowing on them .

 

[EdenCamp]

Couple years ago we had low teens and below 0 wind chills for longer periods than we're used to.
Didn't even have a coop then - just Peeping Tom that someone had given me.
Rigged up a lean two with plywood and woodscraps, a tarp over to keep the wind and water out and heat in.
Put a pallet down and piled hay in. Pallet gives a buffer from frozen ground and keeps the hay dry.
When it was super cold out left the heat lamp on even during the day plugged into an exterior grade extension cord
- same lamp I use now for babies in the brooder. Even 100 watt bulbs throw a lot of heat.
Body heat in close quarters builds up if it's held in. Metal and plastic on footies is not good when it's temp extremes.
The critters all piled in and were fine.

 

[petjem]

This is how our babies were the first week we brought them home



And this is how they look today, 4 months old approximately















Today the duck took her first flight, she flew about 15 meters to follow me holding her friend in my arms. I should soon do that feather clipping we were talking about. You can also see if you look closer that the drake's flight feathers are still coming in.

 

[Miss Lydia]

This is how our babies were the first week we brought them home



And this is how they look today, 4 months old approximately















Today the duck took her first flight, she flew about 15 meters to follow me holding her friend in my arms. I should soon do that feather clipping we were talking about.

They sure are pretty.