Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[rbaker0345]

I sold almost all of my white muscovies to a local man yesterday and we are both from NY and we both grew up with white muscovies. We were talking about my barred and blue and fawns. Neither of us remembers having seen anything but white or solid black muscovies (I remember chocolates and maybe blues) but I don't remember either of those colors being anything but solid (with the white primary feathers). I remember that there was such a thing as pied ducks, but nobody I knew actually bred them because they werent accepted for show. This was like almost 20 years ago, have things changed as far as what colors are acceptable at a show or do I have to show my barred and pied ducks as "any other colors"?

 

[RingedTeal]

I'll get more pics tomorrow

 

[Miss Lydia]

I'll get more pics tomorrow

 

[zach N houdan]

I sold almost all of my white muscovies to a local man yesterday and we are both from NY and we both grew up with white muscovies. We were talking about my barred and blue and fawns. Neither of us remembers having seen anything but white or solid black muscovies (I remember chocolates and maybe blues) but I don't remember either of those colors being anything but solid (with the white primary feathers). I remember that there was such a thing as pied ducks, but nobody I knew actually bred them because they werent accepted for show. This was like almost 20 years ago, have things changed as far as what colors are acceptable at a show or do I have to show my barred and pied ducks as "any other colors"?

Only whites blacks blues and Chocolates are excepted anything else must be shown as AOV but will never win against a recognized color.

 

[Iain Utah]

I am hoping a color expert can help me figure out what to call my 5 month old pair of scovies:





Also, my youngest pair of scovies are supposed to be solid white and both parents are solid. But they are both getting dark grey markings on their head (like a magpie duck). Anyone know why this may be happening?

 

[duckncover]

Does anyone have fertile eggs right now? I'd like to try to hatch a few babies.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Does anyone have fertile eggs right now? I'd like to try to hatch a few babies.

Probably not many Scovy eggs this time of year unless your in Australia most of us in USA have non breeding and non laying ducks right now.

 

[kountryboy4life]

Your Muscovy's look like blue pied. A color i don't have ! (yet) And your solid whites may develop black spots on the top of there heads. The french whites have these markings. I believe that means they are homozygous for the white gene . But don't quote me on that.

 

[Going Quackers]

I am hoping a color expert can help me figure out what to call my 5 month old pair of scovies:





Also, my youngest pair of scovies are supposed to be solid white and both parents are solid. But they are both getting dark grey markings on their head (like a magpie duck). Anyone know why this may be happening?

Those are blues, a colour very prominent in my flock lol

I'll show you some from of my March hatch..




As for the white, it could be black capping... here i have two like that here... mind you the cap comes and goes in noticeably based on molt lol

OLD pic but gives you the idea.. birds were under 1yo

 

[Iain Utah]

Beautiful blues! I thought my scovies may be blue, but one has a lot of tan mixed in so thought perhaps lavender, and the other has a lot of black markings and an almost solid black head, and I had no idea what to call that.

Thanks for the info on the head capping. That is exactly how my youngest pair are looking. The owner of the breeding pair has also been quite confused that the offspring are getting those markings. Is there a difference between a white scovy and a French white scovy?

By the way, your birds are under 1yo with that much caruncles? Wow!