Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[Miss Lydia]

What's wrong with Jake liking the rain? Mine all love it! Like water off a ducks back.....

When it rains hard here all my scovies stand around looking like lawn ornaments. stalk still with chest out, really funny looking.

 

[Going Quackers]

Mine hide in the cedars

 

[Miss Lydia]

Mine hide in the cedars

I bet that's a hoot.

 

[EdenCamp]

Mama is still hatching. Looks like there is a solid chocolate too! Life is lak a box of chocolates! Gorgeous out today - too nice to be in!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Mama is still hatching. Looks like there is a solid chocolate too! Life is lak a box of chocolates! Gorgeous out today - too nice to be in!

Yay for chocolate, and ya for mama hope she rests up her job is just beginning.

 

[Mario farmer]

Hi,
I have a little muscovi duckling 3 weeks old.
Does the muscovy ducks needs some special care??
Are they good egg layers??

 

[Mi Ranchito]

I just thought I'd show you all what Jake looks like. He is my girls boy toy lol because i raised them and had to go get him. He has a very bad habit of getting out of the pen and standing in the rain when it rains. that is him in the first pic

My Muscovy do the same thing! They love hanging out in the rain and seem to get even more excited, diving and chasing each other in the pond. I just think they are sooo cool!

 

[EdenCamp]

Pretty hardy guys. Need to feed hi-protien gamefowl food - like for turkeys, not regular chicken feed while young anyway.
Other than that.... should be good to go. Open water is fine but scovies can make do with a kiddie pool perfectly well. They do fly well, tho the males may get too heavy to. And they can perch like chickens do.

Sometimes early season hatched ducks will start laying fall the same year but usually have to wait til next spring.
Seasonal layers, can lay 3-4 clutches a year. Generally 12-22 eggs in a clutch. Once they get serious about brooding will pluck down and clamp down - 37 days to hatch. So egg production is good but they are dual purpose and meat is considered a delicacy, less greasy, veal like in texture.

ENJOY!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Hi,
I have a little muscovi duckling 3 weeks old.
Does the muscovy ducks needs some special care??
Are they good egg layers??

What a cutie Congrat!! but it would be a lot happier if it had a friend to pal around with.

 

[kenny luedtke]

Some of my muscovies

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