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[MuscovyLover]

OH NO, sorry to hear that.

x2 Buck xoxo

 

[casportpony]

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!

I have found that the ducklings can be hard to sell once they get bigger, then they're almost impossible to sell until they're 6-9 months old, so I'd say sell the eggs, lol, then you aren't such feeding them.

-Kathy

 

[Buck Oakes]

Hey y'all, so I have a major problem , the moms are in 4 maybe almost 5 weeks of the brood and tey at one of the eggs with a full grown baby in it!! There are two moms on one nest could that be a reason? Or could it be from the lack of protein because even when I put game feed in they won't get up until the other one does also .
I just can't figure it out and I can't move the eggs , and also there are fire ants in the nest now and I can't seem to move the eggs without fear of jostling them or fear of the moms not going back to them

 

[TherryChicken]

Hey y'all, so I have a major problem , the moms are in 4 maybe almost 5 weeks of the brood and tey at one of the eggs with a full grown baby in it!! There are two moms on one nest could that be a reason? Or could it be from the lack of protein because even when I put game feed in they won't get up until the other one does also .
I just can't figure it out and I can't move the eggs , and also there are fire ants in the nest now and I can't seem to move the eggs without fear of jostling them or fear of the moms not going back to them

they wont just up n leave the nest, but u need to move them eggs and mommas NOW! The fire ants will kill them both if you dont.

 

[Miss Lydia]

they wont just up n leave the nest, but u need to move them eggs and mommas NOW! The fire ants will kill them both if you dont.

X2

 

[Buck Oakes]

Okay I moved them, but I took them awhile to realize where the eggs were

Also what about the egg eating problem

 

[TherryChicken]

Okay I moved them, but I took them awhile to realize where the eggs were

Also what about the egg eating problem

my only sudjestion is go outside several times a day to get eggs. We did the mustard mixed stuff inside the egg and my chickens loved it so wouldn't sudjest doing it

 

[Buck Oakes]

No see I'm trying to get the eggs. There eating the eggs that they have already set on, and the last two they ate there were developing almost developed babies in them

 

[TherryChicken]

No see I'm trying to get the eggs. There eating the eggs that they have already set on, and the last two they ate there were developing almost developed babies in them

then take them away and finish hatching them.

 

[Buck Oakes]

Sorry not what I ment I left out a not *facepalm*

No see I'm not trying to get the eggs. There eating the eggs that they have already set on, and the last two they ate there were developing almost developed babies in them