Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[SiTran]

I live in Kentucky and mine started laying a week ago today!

 

[Miss Lydia]

uhm quick pictures and questions, are these scovie eggs, I KNOW she has been laying and I have nothing in the pen with her that could have possibly laied these eggs excepet for a black ameraucana hen but she lays consistant eggs so weird....

and heres my quacker, after a recent dog attack her face is infected so to the duck infirmery she gose, complete with vinager bath to flush out any bactirea

The 2 in the middle diff are, probably the other 2 also just hard to tell with the lightening, and so sorry about your duck, I hope she recovers. was it a roaming dog?

 

[Frank Phinster]

I hope this picture will suffice. I could not get as close as I would have liked to because the ducks get a little suspicious when the big guy approaches with that funny device and without food in his hands. This is my largest duckling.



Close-up of my second largest duckling, called Faust.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I hope this picture will suffice. I could not get as close as I would have liked to because the ducks get a little suspicious when the big guy approaches with that funny device and without food in his hands. This is my largest duckling.



Close-up of my second largest duckling, called Faust.

Looks like there is a difference in shape at tip of bill can you see it.

 

[rancher hicks]

I'm late to the party,but in reading about Muscovy's it says they are fliers and that they roost in trees. What can anyone tell me about keeping them? I plan to dig a small wet area where the water pools in spring and fall. Are they swimmers?

 

[refamat]

they love to get wet and clean, and they do "roost". I clip wings, so flying isn't a big issue and if you get them as duckling and raise them up they will come when called for dinner and always wag their tails for you.

 

[RoyalT]

Mine will play more than swim. We have a pond and there's a huge difference between the Muscoovy ducks and our Buff ducks. The Buffs will swim around for hours, the 'scovies seem to only swim on a mission (like to get to the other side, and to get cleaned up). I had one drake who liked to stay in the pond all the time, but since then, none of mine have been like that.

They do roost (and poop) up high, like on the roof of my barns, but tend to stay out of my trees. Of course, we only have conifer trees and cottonwoods... not ideal roosting trees!

 

[farmer07]

Momma and her Hatch

 

[rancher hicks]

I'd like them to roost inside a coop or is that out of the question? I'm in NY so we've got snow and cold. I was thinking on keeping no more than 6. How space do I need for them to run.

I'd prefer a fenced in area. Perhaps 50X100 not including the wet/water area. That area would be about 10 X 20. Also fenced in.

How often do you clip wings? What about predators? Nest boxes?

 

[RoyalT]

When I had just one muscovy duck, she laid in the nesting boxes in the chicken coop, but roosted on the roof. After she got other scovy buddies, she started seeking out harder to locate nest locales :/

I think if you shut your ducks up in a coop at night, they would roost in the coop, but I let mine do whatever they want. They sleep in my rabbit barn on the ground.