Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[Frank Phinster]

Then this is just normal. Muscovies start to develop their masks when they are about half a year old, and it takes some time until they lose all feathers in that area and get their caruncles.

Muscovies can be nasty to each other and like to establish dominance. They may get along better over time, but sometimes a duck just becomes the least favoured of the flock and becomes a common target for temporary aggression.

 

[casportpony]

Here are some of the newest:




-Kathy

 

[WildWestChick]

Oh they are soo cute! I love duckies!

 

[TherryChicken]

So cute!still no babies here. I dont know what they are waiting for.

 

[Miss Lydia]

So cute!still no babies here. I dont know what they are waiting for.

Their waiting for the hatch to begin. if you could candle or listen to an couple of eggs you may hear peeping and candling would tell you if any have internally pipped.

 

[TherryChicken]

I am begining to candle every night now. Ive candled three nights in a row so far. Thats how I know some eggs are so full and all are living

 

[mymoneypit]

So this morning when I went out, there was a garter snake creeping out from under duckies house. I am 99% sure it can't get IN the house. I tried to grab it and missed, so it hurried back under. Can a garter snake hurt Duckie? Do I need to worry about it right now? It was about 3 feet long. Is it big enough to harm babies? Usually I just relocate snakes farther from the house but this one has been hanging out for a few days.

And PP, I'll snap some pics of her house in a bit after I clean it out. The door you see duckie through in my pic is actually the clean-out door, theres a smaller door on the front that folds down into a ramp. when its nice I open both, but on windy or cold days I only open the front.I still need to build her a secure run.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I am begining to candle every night now. Ive candled three nights in a row so far. Thats how I know some eggs are so full and all are living

No internal pips yet then they aren't ready yet granny.

 

[Miss Lydia]

So this morning when I went out, there was a garter snake creeping out from under duckies house. I am 99% sure it can't get IN the house. I tried to grab it and missed, so it hurried back under. Can a garter snake hurt Duckie? Do I need to worry about it right now? It was about 3 feet long. Is it big enough to harm babies? Usually I just relocate snakes farther from the house but this one has been hanging out for a few days.

And PP, I'll snap some pics of her house in a bit after I clean it out. The door you see duckie through in my pic is actually the clean-out door, theres a smaller door on the front that folds down into a ramp. when its nice I open both, but on windy or cold days I only open the front.I still need to build her a secure run.

A 3' snake could eat a small duckling but couldn't hurt an adult they can also eat eggs. I leave our snakes [non poisonous] ones alone unless they over step and go after a duckling. I have seen my adult ducks grab small snakes not a pretty sight.

 

[Speceider]

So this morning when I went out, there was a garter snake creeping out from under duckies house. I am 99% sure it can't get IN the house. I tried to grab it and missed, so it hurried back under. Can a garter snake hurt Duckie? Do I need to worry about it right now? It was about 3 feet long. Is it big enough to harm babies? Usually I just relocate snakes farther from the house but this one has been hanging out for a few days.

And PP,  I'll snap some pics of her house in a bit after I clean it out. The door you see duckie through in my pic is actually the clean-out door, theres a smaller door on the front that folds down into a ramp. when its nice I open both, but on windy or cold days I only open the front.I still need to build her a secure run.

Garter snakes eat frogs and lizards...they do not eat eggs or birds....there us nothing to worry about.

Clint