Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[SouthernPride]

My broody muscovy hen is abnormally sweet and gentle for being broody. Does anyone else have a hen like this? She barely even nibbles at you when messing with under her, which I dont do often. And leaves no marks. Doesnt lash at you.. ect. Just abnormally sweet and gentle.

Smooshy is very sweet. She lets me pet her while she is on the nest, just chirps at me. She has an evening time ritual where she comes off the nest, flies to the pond, takes a bath and then flies back. She comes over to me, says hello and then back on the nest.

Here's a question that just popped in my mind. Do they loose their flight feathers when their eggs hatch similar to Canada geese? Helps keep them grounded to take care of their babies until they can fly.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Smooshy is very sweet. She lets me pet her while she is on the nest, just chirps at me. She has an evening time ritual where she comes off the nest, flies to the pond, takes a bath and then flies back. She comes over to me, says hello and then back on the nest.

Here's a question that just popped in my mind. Do they loose their flight feathers when their eggs hatch similar to Canada geese? Helps keep them grounded to take care of their babies until they can fly.

I don't think so, only big molt I see here is yearly in the fall and they do lose their flight feathers then.

 

[SouthernPride]

Thank you Lydia. I think the Canada's have it right, best time to molt when raising the little ones.

 

[muscovy man14]

finally!!! Mom hatched her ducklings!!! It looks like I have 5 chocolates in their as well I'm so excited!!

 

[Miss Lydia]

finally!!! Mom hatched her ducklings!!! It looks like I have 5 chocolates in their as well I'm so excited!!

They sure are adorable, Congrats!!

 

[SouthernPride]

aaawwwwwww..

 

[insanity]

I don't think so, only big molt I see here is yearly in the fall and they do lose their flight feathers then. 

Two of my newer birds just molted fully( flight feathers and all) in the last few weeks. Is it odd they are doing it in the spring? Also can molt reflect age like in chickens the first molt is roughly at 1 1/2 yr old?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Two of my newer birds just molted fully( flight feathers and all) in the last few weeks. Is it odd they are doing it in the spring? Also can molt reflect age like in chickens the first molt is roughly at 1 1/2 yr old?

I've seen others saying their birds are in molt right now, if mine are it's not a big one and I can't tell. like in the fall looks like about 30 something birds have been plucked in my yard. I don't know if it has anything to do with age.

 

[Buck Oakes]

Ok do ducklings sleep still when they're in the shell because I got up at 2:00 am to check on them and they were really quiet but when I checked on them this mornin they started peeping again so can they sleep?

Also they haven't broken the egg I read that they will start peeping around day twelve but won't hatch till 8 days later so I think I might have been falsely told

 

[Miss Lydia]

Ok do ducklings sleep still when they're in the shell because I got up at 2:00 am to check on them and they were really quiet but when I checked on them this mornin they started peeping again so can they sleep?

Also they haven't broken the egg I read that they will start peeping around day twelve but won't hatch till 8 days later so I think I might have been falsely told

They do sleep, just like a baby inside it's mama, and when they begin to hatch they will work hard and sleep too.