Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[Miss Lydia]

I just want to share my newest trio, chocolate barred (one hen has a white bib)

Beautiful are these some you bred? and hatched?

 

[bribre]

I couldn`t keep this picture from you... Cute little bottom...

I say 100% duck

 

[joelharris]

This is one of mine an only drake, I do have 13 Muscovys altogether, he is called Ducky the dust on him is because I just mucked out and bedded their coop thismorning.

 

[Miss Lydia]

This is one of mine an only drake, I do have 13 Muscovys altogether, he is called Ducky the dust on him is because I just mucked out and bedded their coop thismorning.

He's a handsome chap.

 

[lesander]

Great new addition! Love the chocolate color, yours looks similar to one of my youngest Echo she is about 4 1/2 mnths.

I just want to share my newest trio, chocolate barred (one hen has a white bib)

.her head is starting to get pretty white now, but she still has cute dapple spots, hoping she keeps them.

 

[joelharris]

This is one of mine an only drake, I do have 13 Muscovys altogether, he is called Ducky the dust on him is because I just mucked out and bedded their coop thismorning.

He's a handsome chap.

Thanks

. He lives with my chickens at the moment, because my other 12 Muscovys in the pen next to them, whenever I put him in the 2 mothers of the 10 ducklings just chase him around and he ends up flying back in to where the chickens are, the chickens don't mind him it's just starting to get a bit of a problem as he is maturing so he is trying to get on top of the chickens, I've noticed this mainly at night, but he grabs hold of the chicken's hackle feathers and once he grabs on nothing changes his mind not even the cokerels trying to peck him off, one night I had to grab him off because he was distressing the chickens so much, however he hasn't misbehaved since yesterday when 4 times I put him back in the duck pen, they might have taught him a lesson, but any tips of how to introduce him to them would be grately appreciated.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Thanks

. He lives with my chickens at the moment, because my other 12 Muscovys in the pen next to them, whenever I put him in the 2 mothers of the 10 ducklings just chase him around and he ends up flying back in to where the chickens are, the chickens don't mind him it's just starting to get a bit of a problem as he is maturing so he is trying to get on top of the chickens, I've noticed this mainly at night, but he grabs hold of the chicken's hackle feathers and once he grabs on nothing changes his mind not even the cokerels trying to peck him off, one night I had to grab him off because he was distressing the chickens so much, however he hasn't misbehaved since yesterday when 4 times I put him back in the duck pen, they might have taught him a lesson, but any tips of how to introduce him to them would be grately appreciated.

It's not a good idea to have a drake in a confined are with a mama duck and her ducklings just too easy for a drake to harm a duckling, and he does not need to be with your chickens either if he mates with one it most likely will kill her since chickens were not made to be bred by a duck. so poor guy needs to have his own space for a while till mama and ducklings can be safe around him and vise versa LOL . If he is young then he is really going to be hormonal and won't quit till he mates with a hen and it's not going to be pretty. So he isn't the daddy to this ducklings? Best you can do is have them all free range together so ducklings can stay far out of his way when you decide to put them all together. If that's not an option then maybe give them a larger space if you can and places for ducklings to get where he can't.

 

[joelharris]

Thanks for your reply. The two pens are a paddock split in half so bacically free range in both pens, no he isn't the father to the ducklings, him and the ducklings get along ok its just the mother ducks

 

[learycow]

Beautiful are these some you bred? and hatched?

This is a trio I bought. I had a bit of a predator issue last winter/spring and ended up losing all my chocolates. I decided I would keep an eye out and look for a couple of nice breeding chocolates. I'm glad I waited as the chocolate barreds are not a common color/pattern around here! And they fit very nicely in with the rest of my flock. The drake gets along very well with my other 2 (I'm assuming it's because I got him fairly young). Luckily, I have never had an issue with drakes fighting

 

[joelharris]

Here are mother ducks and ducklings the 2 with red on their faces are the mothers the rest are ducklings, well their not exactly ducklings anymore