Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[keirys]

How could she she's on the bottom.

makes me think of when they use to see how many could get into a phone booth[ how many remember them] showing my age now, or how many could pile into a Volks wagon beetle.

Wow that amazes me that she lets them do that. I have my first broody & boy that attitude is scary. Speaking of volkswagon beetles my DH tried bringing home more chicks

. So now I have to build a duck coop under the chicken coop lol. Because my chicken coop is starting to get full like the beetle...Before he brings home more chickens or ducks I better move the poor ducks out of the coop so they have more room... Is 2 feet high by 5 ft wide & 3 1/2 ft deep big enough?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Wow that amazes me that she lets them do that. I have my first broody & boy that attitude is scary. Speaking of volkswagon beetles my DH tried bringing home more chicks

. So now I have to build a duck coop under the chicken coop lol. Because my chicken coop is starting to get full like the beetle...Before he brings home more chickens or ducks I better move the poor ducks out of the coop so they have more room... Is 2 feet high by 5 ft wide & 3 1/2 ft deep big enough?

If I was building a duck coop I'd want to be able to walk in so I could clean it good. That's what we did here and boy is it nice to be able to walk inside. I'm hoping to get a goose house before fall of this year and y dimensions will be 8L'X4'deep by 6'High the bigger the better because you have already seen Chicken math gone wild

 

[keirys]

We have literally NO room lol... We have a small backyard that is the only place I can think of to build a duck coop/shack without taking up space in the run.

 

[Miss Lydia]

We have literally NO room lol... We have a small backyard that is the only place I can think of to build a duck coop/shack without taking up space in the run.

Well then hubby is going to have to go to poultry anonymous real soon.

 

[EdenCamp]

Should think about doing a White Cloud TP ad with these!

Purdy Birdys

Ihavechickens2 - it's like a 1% chance on males only is what I've read. Have comptemplated this as a way to try to introduce new color variations deliberately into the breed.

Ducklove7 - ducks take longer to cook than chickens which you can tell day 7, so just a guess expect longer than that. If you put your question in the search bar you'd get a more reliable answer. I use "natural" mama-bators and just let them go to it.

 

[EdenCamp]

Well then hubby is going to have to go to poultry anonymous real soon.

I don't care who ya are, that's some

right thar!

Give em what room you can - it'll be more than they have now.
Course there's always the greenhouse........

 

[crissycriss]

Thanks that helped alot. I wish i could find a market for duck eggs here. I just now found someone to share my duck eggs with. I give them away by the dozens.
Do the muscovy taste as good as ive read?Are they better tasting than mallards?

 

[keirys]

Well then hubby is going to have to go to poultry anonymous real soon.

 

[Miss Lydia]

How long before you can candle an egg to tell if its fertile or not?

I usually wait till around day 7 then again on day 14 and then again on day 21 just because I like too, when mama goes out to do her thing. which can be really stinky.

 

[ihavechickens2]

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Should think about doing a White Cloud TP ad with these!  Purdy Birdys

Ihavechickens2 - it's like a 1% chance on males only is what I've read.  Have comptemplated this as a way to try to introduce new color variations deliberately into the breed.  

Oh ok thanks.