Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[Going Quackers]

I had a hen do this too! So wierd. Now I can't figure out genetics for her babies...

Edit: hen changed from black to chocolate.

Your kidding! wow, that is great to hear actually, i was beginning to wonder if i was alone with this oddity. I have yet to see it again either, not such a dramatic change, although i know Muscovy are quite the ever changing birds.

 

[Alaskan]

I am a noob!

Is this the right place to come if I want my hand held?

 

[crissycriss]

My drake has turned blue he was a lilac(blue fawn). Very pretty.

 

[Alaskan]

OK, I posted my serious questions in the "Attention Muscovy lovers" thread, but here are my color questions......

I HAVE, looked through a good number of pictures, but I just don't feel very confident at identifying by myself.

This is mama number 3, with her two half grown ducklings. The dark duckling is a male, the very light one is a female.

Same mama number 3, same half grown ducks, just a different shot

Female number 2 baby girl behind her and baby boy in front of her and left

Female number 1 on left with two year old drake in middle and head of female number 3 on right

All of them together....they look a little rough. #1, male, #3, baby male, #2, baby girl


The poor things had to be caught in a muddy pen which made them very muddy, then transported in dog crates, then I clipped the wings of the grown females, and they were released.

The drake has only pin feathers on his wings....hard molt? As in NOT A SINGLE full grown feather. I asked the lady I bought them from, she thought it was just a molt (no trauma that she knew of). The two little ones are also all pin feathers on the wings, but it is clearly because they are just babies.

All three girls looked like they were about to go through a molt, their feathers were way ratty, and there were a very few pin feathers, but I was still able to cut all flight feathers (as in I only saw maybe two pin feathers, and they were still very short, almost all flight feathers were full grown and very old).

So......can anyone tell me the colors?

Thanks!

 

[Duck Love07 AR]

Duck love 07AR Here are some fun pics to show you how much they love to go broody... (sorry, not the best quality) The eggs... And here`s mom. This was the first day she officially when`t broody. Meaning; she stayed at the nest full time. Except for eating offcourse. See that little one laying next to her?. She was only 7/8 weeks old... By the way, they have a special duck coop, but she preferred this spot

Well it is getting chilly here is the only reason I fond it odd for her to lay again. That and only one of my two started this time

 

[Miss Lydia]

OK, I posted my serious questions in the "Attention Muscovy lovers" thread, but here are my color questions......

I HAVE, looked through a good number of pictures, but I just don't feel very confident at identifying by myself.


This is mama number 3, with her two half grown ducklings. The dark duckling is a male, the very light one is a female.


Same mama number 3, same half grown ducks, just a different shot


Female number 2 baby girl behind her and baby boy in front of her and left


Female number 1 on left with two year old drake in middle and head of female number 3 on right


All of them together....they look a little rough. #1, male, #3, baby male, #2, baby girl


The poor things had to be caught in a muddy pen which made them very muddy, then transported in dog crates, then I clipped the wings of the grown females, and they were released.

The drake has only pin feathers on his wings....hard molt? As in NOT A SINGLE full grown feather. I asked the lady I bought them from, she thought it was just a molt (no trauma that she knew of). The two little ones are also all pin feathers on the wings, but it is clearly because they are just babies.

All three girls looked like they were about to go through a molt, their feathers were way ratty, and there were a very few pin feathers, but I was still able to cut all flight feathers (as in I only saw maybe two pin feathers, and they were still very short, almost all flight feathers were full grown and very old).

So......can anyone tell me the colors?

Thanks!

I'll leave the colors to those that are into that sort of thing, I just wanted to say

and your new Scovy's are absolutely beautiful. and yes molting is starting here big time so most likely that's what is going on with yours.

 

[Lake Sai]

 

[muskuslove]

Lake sai, i love that black one...

 

[muskuslove]

So sorry for posting so many pictures. I just love taking pictures of them. Especially when it`s still nice weather outside. Three more weeks now, then my broody duck hopefully will have some beautiful little ones...

 

[Lake Sai]

Thank you!

They are funny. I spent time to watch them in the yard. I forgot to write about each of them.