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Kristof at three weeks. Will be fun to see her at four months :)
 
Five dozen eggs in the fridge now, two hens brooding, other hens making nests all over the place, and this morning PADRE, THE DRAKE was sitting in one nest, wiggling around to deepen it, pulling straw around with his bill, while one of his youngest daughters stood watching about three inches away, moving straw around ineffectually, obviously a beginner who isn't sure what to do. I was fascinated... I've never seen or heard of any such behavior from a drake. Then he got up and waddled out the door, crest up, wagging his tail, and his daughter sat down in the nest....!
Move over, Diane Fossey and Jane Goodall. Or pull up a chair.
 
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Mashallaharabia said:
Five dozen eggs in the fridge now, two hens brooding, other hens making nests all over the place, and this morning PADRE, THE DRAKE was sitting in one nest, wiggling around to deepen it, pulling straw around with his bill, while one of his youngest daughters stood watching about three inches away, moving straw around ineffectually, obviously a beginner who isn't sure what to do.  I was fascinated... I've never seen or heard of any such behavior from a drake.  Then he got up and waddled out the door, crest up, wagging his tail,  and his daughter sat down in the nest....!
   Move over, Diane Fossey and Jane Goodall.  Or pull up a chair.
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That is so funny! To bad you didn't get it on video. I bet it was fun to watch.
 
We have a pretty steady market for the eggs. Now assuming these Muscovies lay one egg a day,which mine do, that's 35 eggs in the time it would take to incubate a clutch. A dozen eggs and a duckling sell for the same price, $ 5.00. The question is, which brings in more money? It seems hardly cost effective to let them incubate a small clutch.

This drake fascinates me. I never would have expected such personality from a creature with a brain the size of a pinto bean. In the past, my dad and I would get a dozen ducklings from the hatchery, raise them, butcher them all in the fall, we never wintered them over. So all the nesting / brooding behavior and the drake's interactions with his harem is an adventure. Probably should have a video camera for the pool parties and the hen that climbs up fence the way a woodpecker goes up a tree!
 
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