Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[Bleenie]

OSUman, That drake of yours is just STUNNING! I just love the way he's got that white streak in his tail

(*jealous!*)

 

[OSUman]

Lol thanks you guys have really good Muscovies too if i had more hens i would offer to trade eggs if yall wanted to but i only have one unless i get one from someone on here.

 

[smithzoo100]

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Houndit, Any idea what caused your boy's crooked neck? We had a baby found in the nest after Mama had brought everyone else off the nest. At first, we thought that she was dead the way she was laying, but she was just resting. She was a sticky duckling, with a crooked neck close to her body, weak legs, and the last out. We did not see the Mama off of her nest for two days before she appeared with the babies. Since she was weak at first, she was raised in a beer box next to the brooder since the brooder was full of Bantam chickens! She got strong quickly and soon was jumping up and perching on the edge of the box when I did laundry. It wasn't long till she was hopping out of the box and peeping under the door so she could come out and do her physical therapy (increasing walks around the house). She is a FUN girl and will be a year old in April! She currently comes to the house and lays her egg under the front steps

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Here's a picture of our crooked girl, Cricket, who looks the same, but it hasn't hampered her in the least!! She is feisty and likes to nip the dogs and cats and won't back down. She can FLY like the rest of the girls, but her learning curve was a bit slower. You'd be in the yard and hear her coming like a huge whirling monster bird. If you were lucky, you'd see her and have a chance to duck (sorry for the pun, but fitting!)!! If you weren't so lucky, she'd crash into you!! Happened quite a bit till she got the hang of being able to look at you without aiming straight for you! Our neighbors must have wondered what in the world was going on when the Scovy babies were learning to fly since you'd hear anyone of us who saw them take off yell "Incoming!!" if they were heading toward a human. LOL!! Silly birds!!

More pictures to come of our other birds as time allows. I LOVE this thread!! And love all pictures of your beautiful birds!! ~Lisa

 

[keeperofthehearth]

smithzoo100

Thanks for sharing that wonderful story about Cricket.

She is a cutie!

 

[smithzoo100]

Keeper,

Thanks for the welcome!! Hubby claims he's not a duck person, but when I showed him the post and that I had learned how to post a picture (Wahoo for new computer skills

), he grumbled something to the effect of "Well, that's not a very good picture of her...." LOL!! He's all worried about Cricket's internet debut photo?!? She is quite the special girl

 

[keeperofthehearth]

Most pictures don't do Scovies justice, IMO. When they are standing in front of you begging for peas or another treat, awwww, you just got'ta love'em.
And they are wonderful to watch in flight.
You are very lucky, or should I say, Honored, to have a place where you can let your Scovies fly. I allowed mine for a short while but we are in a neighborhood, albeit a country one, and once 8-10 of the girls(at the time) decided to hang out & sleep on our roof no matter what THEN started flying over to our neighbors newly re-roofed two story house, it was time to snip/clip a few wings. Oh well, I still get to watch them make some nice 4-5 ft glides down our drive & the boys have made it up to our carport roof a time or two.

Talking about unflattering Scovy pic's, here is one of our blue drake, Jason Issac Muscovy, looking like a lumbering hippo or rino or some such.

He was huffing and hissing up a storm because he was missing out on the snacks PLUS, & this is the big one, he is in competition w/another drake for the attention of our breeding girls & that guy was already w/us. What HAD been going on while he was apart fm them, OH MY!!!

He really isn't THAT fat, though he does look a bit "ticked-off."

 

[Bates22]

hi guys jsut wanted to ask when do your guys female muscovies start laying?

 

[houndit]

Mine always start about Mid April.

 

[houndit]

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Houndit, Any idea what caused your boy's crooked neck? We had a baby found in the nest after Mama had brought everyone else off the nest. At first, we thought that she was dead the way she was laying, but she was just resting. She was a sticky duckling, with a crooked neck close to her body, weak legs, and the last out. We did not see the Mama off of her nest for two days before she appeared with the babies. Since she was weak at first, she was raised in a beer box next to the brooder since the brooder was full of Bantam chickens! She got strong quickly and soon was jumping up and perching on the edge of the box when I did laundry. It wasn't long till she was hopping out of the box and peeping under the door so she could come out and do her physical therapy (increasing walks around the house). She is a FUN girl and will be a year old in April! She currently comes to the house and lays her egg under the front steps

.

Here's a picture of our crooked girl, Cricket, who looks the same, but it hasn't hampered her in the least!! She is feisty and likes to nip the dogs and cats and won't back down. She can FLY like the rest of the girls, but her learning curve was a bit slower. You'd be in the yard and hear her coming like a huge whirling monster bird. If you were lucky, you'd see her and have a chance to duck (sorry for the pun, but fitting!)!! If you weren't so lucky, she'd crash into you!! Happened quite a bit till she got the hang of being able to look at you without aiming straight for you! Our neighbors must have wondered what in the world was going on when the Scovy babies were learning to fly since you'd hear anyone of us who saw them take off yell "Incoming!!" if they were heading toward a human. LOL!! Silly birds!!

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More pictures to come of our other birds as time allows. I LOVE this thread!! And love all pictures of your beautiful birds!! ~Lisa

I do not know. It hatched that way. It was the last one out. At first we thought it had a bad foot. We did not think it would live. It did. I was amazed when it finally started flying. Someone said that it is sometimes caused by genetics that are to close. Since our genetics have not changed and we have had no more like it, I figured it was just a freak. Thank you for sharing your picture.

 

[Goat_Walker]

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I have a hen right now who has the egg belly - havent seen any eggs though