Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[Going Quackers]

Harassment LOL Probably just saying hey you the new kid on the block, kinda like if you were to bring her home to a established flock. Beautiful Muscovy's. and daffy is gorgeous.

Agreed. May i ask why you took her there? Maybe a touch paranoid but i wouldn't want my duck exposed to wild ducks, regardless of them being the same breed.

 

[Going Quackers]

Quackers,

Mine were all raised together. They separated themselves out. I also raised them with geese from babies, and now the geese have become their own flock, with the exception of one toulouse, who thinks she is a harlequin and all four ancona ducks think they are geese. Dunno what's going on in those sweet little bird brains sometimes.

Interesting, mine were just a quad flock.. so separate then integrated as young birds, the scovies blend in with the rest, they actually have a full relation brother/sister that stayed with their mama, but the buffs are totally only into their drakes.. they put off any other duck in the flock, they seem uninterested in mixing in as they mature.

 

[zach N houdan]

blue pullet that won reserve champion waterfowl

 

[DaisyMeadow]

we took daffy to the park recently the other ducks were kind of mean to her well the muscovys were anyway the other ones didn't mess with her at all does anyone know what the duck in the first picture is doing?

Oh, Daffy, please be careful!

We took in a goose from some people in the city who had no business with a goose. She died within 2 weeks (this September), but not before giving my flock hepatitis, which can be goose-duck transferred. The strain we got was 100% fatal in all of our fall ducklings that were natural hatch and free ranging. We lost more than 35 babies - 3 different breeds. There is no cure and they only show symptoms within about 2 hours of death. We had a few scovy ducks hatch out babies after that, which we got off the grass as soon as we found them and housed in a clean new coop. But out of the 20 that we saved from the yard, about half of them (who are now 2 months old) only have grown to about 1/3 the size of the others and we are down to 12, with two of the tiny ones left. We don't expect the last two tiny ones to make it. We lost one last night, one the night before that.

We are so grateful for the week-long sub-zero temps that should have killed the virus, which can otherwise live in the ground for very long periods of time. On the upside, the adults and scovy babies that did make it should be immune now, which should pass along immunity to their offspring, but we have chosen not to re-home any birds in nearly 4 months, and we have developed a strict quarantine regimen for the few birds we have taken in since then. Please learn from our costly mistake and be careful where your birds are exposed.

That is all.

 

[daffyduck10]

she hasn't been around other ducks since she was about a week old it and i really didnt think anything of it seemed like a good idea at the time lol. She was interested in them but they kept biting her i probably wont take her back out there i just wanted her to see her own kind and maybe play with them. also, daffys about 7 months old now and still hasn't laid an egg she does do this weird thing were she lays down and kicks and legs back but i dont know how ducks act when they lay or anything any advice?

 

[daffyduck10]

Oh, Daffy, please be careful! 

We took in a goose from some people in the city who had no business with a goose.  She died within 2 weeks (this September), but not before giving my flock hepatitis, which can be goose-duck transferred.  The strain we got was 100% fatal in all of our fall ducklings that were natural hatch and free ranging.  We lost more than 35 babies - 3 different breeds.  There is no cure and they only show symptoms within about 2 hours of death.  We had a few scovy ducks hatch out babies after that, which we got off the grass as soon as we found them and housed in a clean new coop.  But out of the 20 that we saved from the yard, about half of them (who are now 2 months old) only have grown to about 1/3 the size of the others and we are down to 12, with two of the tiny ones left.  We don't expect the last two tiny ones to make it.  We lost one last night, one the night before that.

We are so grateful for the week-long sub-zero temps that should have killed the virus, which can otherwise live in the ground for very long periods of time.  On the upside, the adults and scovy babies that did make it should be immune now, which should pass along immunity to their offspring, but we have chosen not to re-home any birds in nearly 4 months, and we have developed a strict quarantine regimen for the few birds we have taken in since then.  Please learn from our costly mistake and be careful where your birds are exposed.

That is all.

thank you for sharing that information we wont be taking her back out there she prefers cats and small dogs anyways lol

 

[Miss Lydia]

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What does daffy eat? is she getting adequate calcium? oyster shell, greens and does she get sun shine? I have some 7 month olds that hatched here in May and they won't lay till next spring. It's always been that way with any Scovy duck I have hatched here. I like that actually gives them time to mature.

 

[Miss Lydia]

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Thank you so much for sharing this DM had to be heart breaking. Hopefully it will help others though, since Going Quackers and my self and a few others cringe when we read someone has taken their pet duck around ducks in a park setting. just way to easy to pick up a disease. So very sorry for your losses.

 

[DaisyMeadow]

Thanks, Miss Lydia,

It is heartbreaking and continues to be as we have two more that likely won't make it.

We choose to free range our birds as we don't like to coop them all up (and we have about 160 right now) except at night. We like to have our birds be birds, swim in the creeks, forage, play and do whatever they like. But we also realize that that opens them up to disease, as anything could be in the woods or the water. The truth is that migrating birds flying over could let disease fly as they happen to be passing. So unless you keep your birds in an absolutely sterile indoor environment, you're never going to be without risk. But we can actively keep our birds away from others as much as possible and use a quarantine regimen anytime we introduce new birds. I even ask any visitors who also keep birds to spray down the bottoms of their shoes with bleach water before they walk on the grounds, and have them spray again as they get into their vehicles so they don't bring anything home with them.

We started on January 1 with four and worked our way up to a proper flock. For the most part, we have happy, healthy birds. And we work hard to keep them that way.

 

[piglett]

blue pullet that won reserve champion waterfowl

very nice , we have 2 females that look almost like her
along with 7 other younger girls
we should be swimming in ducklings come spring