Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[bigokie37]

heres some of mine from the summer.i will have lots more this spring

.i have around 30 hens this year

 

[Bleenie]

30!?

I thought I was bad with just 17!

 

[Goat_Walker]

I would KILL for that little choco and white duck in the back of the first picture and centered in the second

 

[spectrumranch]

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Thats the problem with having different colors- you have to keep some of each. I sold 15 muscovies last weekend which was the last of the extra hens (still have a few drakes to sell) so at least now I won't be temped to keep any extras. I picked out 25 hens and 10 drakes for breeding this year plus the Wild Muscovies, which I have to sell a few of them too.

Black Pied drake

Barred hen

Hybrid hen (Rouen x Muscovy)

 

[Bleenie]

OH MY GOSH! That mule hen is ADORABLE!!

Makes me feel so much better about getting other breeds again. I plan on putting my extra Chocolate Muscovy drake in with them to make mules since there seems to be a decent market for them here and itll help pay for feed. If the new guy doesn't start doing the deed (he's about 3 but is L A Z Y) I might just have to get another Muscovy drake from a friend.

I wonder what runner/pekin/crested Muscovy mules look like? LOL........ I am sure i will wanna keep some

 

[Bleenie]

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It's been a slow process gathering the hens i have now and its a terrible pain in the butt trying to find good looking Chocolate hens.

ETA: EGGBUTT!! (yay!)

 

[spectrumranch]

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Your post got me thinking- has anyone here used Muscovy drakes with other hens to produce hybrids? I'm sure they have crossed that way, but we have always used Rouen (or some thing similar) drakes on Muscovy hens. We imprinted 3 Rouen drakes on Muscovies so that they would produce hybrids, otherwise when we just had muscovies and other type ducks together they didn't cross.

 

[rollyard]

Some more pics from Australia

 

[keeperofthehearth]

Love the last picture!

What a wonderful face with a lot of character. Soooo, I noticed the can of coconut cream in the first pic, is that for the birds?

 

[Goat_Walker]

I am still just wowed... I bet you dont have to worry about those guys flying away though