Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[Miss Lydia]

One had that -_- I can't believe I didn't put it in the incubator

Well I'm sure you'll have many more. The bulls eye always tell me if i have fertile or not.

 

[kountryboy4life]

11 new babies !

 

[TherryChicken]

Y a y babies

 

[titika]

I agree with Lydia, if you have the space and can afford a few extra mouths to feed why not keep them? He sure seems like a stick in the mud. :/ My own fiancee wasn't wild with the duck idea but his heart melted when we fostered a baby gosling, and now he keeps bugging ME about how long til our little eggs hatch!

I buy the feed and take care of them so I don't know why he doesn't like them. He says they stink. I don't think so. Guess I'm just used to it. He was out there everyday to see if her eggs hatched and i caught him a bunch of times watching the babies. I catch him peeking into the incubator often to see if the quail have hatched too. Lol

 

[Miss Lydia]

Oh i hear things like you have too many drakes or they are doing away with all the vegetation on the bank, then I see my dh out petting Opie our drake we raised inside for the first 3 months of his life. Men

 

[Buck Oakes]

QUESTION TIME!:


1.So how can a female become egg bound?

2. If a females pregnant can she be kinda sluggish till she lays the eggs, because I felt one of females abdomen(the one I'm trying to breed) and I can feel a ton of eggs at least 6 or 7 so maybe not a ton but she's a small duck


3. Does a female lay infertile eggs when ovulating

 

[Amykins]

1. Females become eggbound when they are unable to lay eggs. A number of things can cause it: Egg too big, deformed or clumped-together eggs blocking the oviduct, infection, etc.

2. If you can feel that many eggs in her and she's lethargic, then she's probably eggbound. Get her to a vet IMMEDIATELY, this condition can be fatal!

3. Yep! birds lay eggs whether they're fertile or not. Good news for omelette lovers.

 

[mymoneypit]

Help please? Duckie's been broody for weeks now, I stuck 2 fertile chicken eggs under her hoping she'd be satisfied to hatch them. But I candled tonight, one is gone, went looking and found shell outside her house... sad cause it was IN the nest this afternoon. And the other looks like a dark blob, and the aircell is on a slant, taking up about 1/3 of the egg. According to the charts I should see a spider looking thing. Would you just pull the nestbox out? It's a litter pan, so easy to do. I'm ready for her to be a duck again.

And since she won't be raising any babies, next question, how old should the babies I'm raising be before I let them together? babies are 5 weeks now. They have their own run right now.

 

[Buck Oakes]

1. Females become eggbound when they are unable to lay eggs. A number of things can cause it: Egg too big, deformed or clumped-together eggs blocking the oviduct, infection, etc.

2. If you can feel that many eggs in her and she's lethargic, then she's probably eggbound. Get her to a vet IMMEDIATELY, this condition can be fatal!

3. Yep! birds lay eggs whether they're fertile or not. Good news for omelette lovers.

I don't have a local bird vet where I live, I've been told that if I put her in a warm bath she would naturally pass them through , is that true

 

[learycow]

And the newest hatchlings! 15 total
4 black wild type
2 black pied
2 blue wild type
2 blue pied
1 white
2 barred (1 black, 1 blue)
1 silver/cream/buff