Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[smithzoo100]

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Well, it has been quite a while since I have had a chance to get back on here and I had given up on Choco's clutch, but here they are, Keeper & everyone else!!!! There are 9 and they are quite a rainbow of colors!! 8 hatched the 11th and the last one (with a little help) hatched on the 12th. By the evening of the 12th, I had to really search to figure out which one the little help-out baby was.... It was another day before she was running around with her siblings without getting tired first. Now, everyone is doing wonderful, but they escaped their Duck Fortress (a 12' x 24' foaling stall that Choco insisted on nesting in) twice so had to be caught and locked in a large brooding cage until they are a little larger for their safety. They sound like really fun squeak toys and my nosy dogs are tempted, even though they are really good dogs

. You should have seen them when I was catching the babies, but my geese will try to steal the babies given half a chance, so there was no time to put the dogs in the house!! Enjoy the pics

I'm so excited that I can't stand it and just go out and stare at them.... Choco is a patient Mama with her Mama

The little one in the back sitting is my little help out baby. She has lighter yellow on her than the others.

Ducklings in a red bucket on Valentine's Day. Their first escape and recapture! Any idea what the little wild color babies look like as adults? I do not remember & am curious/impatient.

 

[Bleenie]

Those are just adorable! I can't wait til my girls start brooding their own eggs! If i remember correctly, the wild-looking ones are solid as adults...someone correct me if im wrong though

Here's some new pics of mine...again

 

[Goat_Walker]

Those sure are some little cuties!!! Congrats!

 

[keeperofthehearth]

Sweet ducklings, smithzoo! Congrats!! Bleenie is right, the wild looking mallard ones will be black solids, looking at the darkness of the brown.

My Bleenie, you are so lucky to have all that beautiful green grass right now. Ours is still covered with hard crusty snow. I had to shovel a wide path over to a pine tree just to get my Scovies to go somewhere other than the driveway and road.

Just love that blue Scovie girl in the first pic/avatar.

 

[smithzoo100]

Thanks, Guys!! I am smitten

I thought that the little mallard posers would turn dark, but just wanted to double check. I didn't keep records like I normally would last year since I had some health stuff going on (which is why the ducks were able to squirrel nests away!) Cricket was solid black & still is with a little white coming in now. Some of my boys from last year that had to have started out like the little ones in question had almost dark brownish black bodies with black points, then white heads coming in...and RIPPLES!! We laughingly called them "bay" or "tri-colored" since we have horses. I know that is not correct, but it sure made us giggle!! I am hoping that the two yellow ones turn into the white with black caps and ice blue eyes

I will be curious to see if they are male of female since we have only had females that color.

Bleenie, you are a very well deserved show off!!! I am in LOVE with her!!! We may be driving to Washington in the near future (Vancouver) and please do NOT look in my car for that gorgeous girl!!!

Please, let me know when you have eggs.

Keeper, I think of you often and how you deal with all of that weather and your birds. It makes me even more thankful for where we live, which I absolutely ADORE, and shuts me up immediately when I want to whine about our weather!! Hang in there

It will just be a bad memory soon for everyone.

Goat_walker, Thanks for the compliment!! You have some wonderful birds of your own!!!

And, Cozy, I MUST steal Elmer Fudge's name for a chocolate Doxie in the future!! That's one we've never thought of and I just LOVE it!!

Especially after the look that I got from the hubby and our roommate...

 

[zephyrcreek]

Okay guys. What color is the second pic Bleenie just posted. I'm so confused with what to call one of my girls and her color is very similar. It is a light tannish with a blue cast. I thought it was buff but.....ugh.

 

[Bleenie]

Pixie is a Blue-Fawn

 

[blueoval1]

Wow everyone has such beautiful scovies!

I have a question. I have quite a few muscovies and they are great broodys do yall think that they would be succesful in hatching goose or swan eggs?

 

[Bleenie]

maybe check and see if she/they would be able to keep them warm enough...i also wouldn't put more than a few under 1 hen.

Our Roman Tufted's eggs were justa tiny bit bigger than the ducks but it depends on the egg size i guess.

 

[rollyard]

All of these pic are really great, just love some of the colours, black muscovies that are so black, ripples, chocolate

Was wondering though, does anyone have any birds that are silver? If so could you post some pics. Breeders of blue (not lavender) muscovies may have some in their yards

Cheers