Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[Miss Lydia]

Trying again.. any thoughts on colors of them? anyone else think they look to small or thin/streamlined. they were all pudgy before got down to 35°. the silver/grey looking one was my little foodie fatty and a butterball feeling bird in my lap trilling (if that's the word for that sound), and wagging her tail, lightly rubbing and billing me. hehe
They now fly straight to and at me for food, and from neighbors, their pen, pond. they can fly fight over the old trailer, shed, and neighbors barn. sometimes an acre away. should they be able to fly that high and far at a time?

Muscovy's can fly far and high especially when young, once drakes get to be mature they don't fly much. looks like chocolate/ white and can't see the other one real well but maybe fawn I have one that color and will get a pic for you, I'm still saying duck not drake at this point.

Do you have any closer pics. As for flying I clip one wing to keep mine close to home. I can't imagine its safe for the little guys to be roaming.

And I agree if you have neighbors close by that have dogs or you have roaming dogs and your ducks are flying a mile away they maybe
should have one wing clipped for their own safety.fawn

 

[laughingdog]

Any idea why the colors are lightning up on most of my scovy? your fawn looks how the one looks mostly, but she used to be metallic colored like tin, others more choco looking much darker, but now almost blond.. is it still light enough to fade out color (looks like how brown, and silver that comes from in pigeons act). Does anyone on here know color genetics on here that could show some on here? I'm familiar with pigeon color genetics, but not ducks as just wanted several black scovy at first, but now turned to the duxk side, and want lavender, and black still, and want all silver/grey ect out of some of mine, and all choco, and maybe whatever that reddish looking color is. good news that can have as many scovy, maybe ducks generally, as can adequately care for, especially if it means less to no chickens and/or pigeons, says woman of household.

 

[laughingdog]

my two dogs protect the ducks pretty seriously, but i do worry about a large hawk that has been hanging close to female ducks, especially when the group splits recently into parts or one goes somewhat farther that usual few feet from rest, as happening more recent along with the hop on top game seeming to start already (so soon?!). partly why i worry. about wing clipping aside from dogs of others. two dogs of ours raised these from hatchlings and protected and kept warm and still let them eat and sleep with them, and ducklings bunch under dogs if scared. Then again i don't want them perching on phone or electric poles, road, or someone's car ect.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Any idea why the colors are lightning up on most of my scovy? your fawn looks how the one looks mostly, but she used to be metallic colored like tin, others more choco looking much darker, but now almost blond.. is it still light enough to fade out color (looks like how brown, and silver that comes from in pigeons act). Does anyone on here know color genetics on here that could show some on here? I'm familiar with pigeon color genetics, but not ducks as just wanted several black scovy at first, but now turned to the duxk side, and want lavender, and black still, and want all silver/grey ect out of some of mine, and all choco, and maybe whatever that reddish looking color is. good news that can have as many scovy, maybe ducks generally, as can adequately care for, especially if it means less to no chickens and/or pigeons, says woman of household.

Seems wife is smart cookie.

as for color how old again are these ducks? they change so much over the course of a year it's amazing from hatch till first big molt then they have their first big adult molt and change some more. here is the genetic color chart. your ducks are beautiful. http://www.muscovyduckcentral.com/genetics.html the one on the far side of the car looks like it could be blue or lavender, pics don't do them justice.

 

[DaisyMeadow]

Does Anyone have rouens with their muscovys? Does it work well?

I have rouens with muscovies. They all get along just fine, but the rouens are crazy. I call them the "rouen mafia." Of the 4 that I started with, I have two rouen ducks left. They are my noisiest birds (more so than the geese), they run around telling on everyone, flirting with all the boys, and they'll often run right up to me, quack, then run off. They're very attached to one another and even though I free range my 160 or so birds (geese, muscovies, rouens, cayugas, anconas, khakis, harlequins and various chickens), the two rouen girls are always close together, talking about something. We've had successful cross breeding with muscovy/ancona, muscovy/harlequin, but no muscovy/rouens, although my hens are this spring's hatch.

 

[Going Quackers]

Seems wife is smart cookie.

as for color how old again are these ducks? they change so much over the course of a year it's amazing from hatch till first big molt then they have their first big adult molt and change some more. here is the genetic color chart. your ducks are beautiful. http://www.muscovyduckcentral.com/genetics.html the one on the far side of the car looks like it could be blue or lavender, pics don't do them justice.

I agree, the colours of Muscovy run very deep and can be of great mystery. I watched a young duck here go from chocolate to almost a milked out tea now as a 1.5yo she's darkened right back. Unfortunately, unless you know your genetics of the lines it can be hard to know what will come forth, my breeder drake did a change from black pied to chocolate pied and then molted right back to black again, i seriously thought my eyes were failing lol

The link ML gave may help, but again without knowing your entire background of the drakes/ducks it can be hard to know, as i am getting more generations here i am able to get a better handle on the colours and the genetics.

 

[Going Quackers]

Trying again.. any thoughts on colors of them? anyone else think they look to small or thin/streamlined. they were all pudgy before got down to 35°. the silver/grey looking one was my little foodie fatty and a butterball feeling bird in my lap trilling (if that's the word for that sound), and wagging her tail, lightly rubbing and billing me. hehe
They now fly straight to and at me for food, and from neighbors, their pen, pond. they can fly fight over the old trailer, shed, and neighbors barn. sometimes an acre away. should they be able to fly that high and far at a time?

Female Muscovy are proper full on, flyers. Drakes usually by a few months slowly start loosing their ability, the mere weight of them stops this. My flock is full flight, but it doesn't work for everyone. I find most young ducklings take their flight very seriously and then as they age out, the desire slows. I have a few females here who rarely fly, very capable just prefer not to bother. The most flighty? my 6mth old duck lol Mabel.. she's a caution.

 

[muscovy joe]

@DaisyMeadow
Thank you for your response! Iv only
Had the rouens for two days and iv noticed they are quite noisy

 

[DaisyMeadow]

@DaisyMeadow
Thank you for your response! Iv only
Had the rouens for two days and iv noticed they are quite noisy

Our rouens are quite noisy, and while they tolerate the muscovies, they are their own separate flock of two. Even though we have so many birds, we have at least 4 distinct "flocks" that all stick together. The dog knows which ones go in which houses at the end of the day of foraging.

 

[Going Quackers]

@DaisyMeadow
Thank you for your response! Iv only
Had the rouens for two days and iv noticed they are quite noisy

UP against scovies? ya, you will my two buffs(yes, only two) make more racket than the 17 scovies combined. The call females top them all but their penned so don't travel with their racket.