Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[casportpony]

Good luck at the show!

 

[TherryChicken]

Looks like batch 2 is starting to hatch. I hear movement in the shell and some light tapping, but dont feel anything. So I put them on lock down

 

[Going Quackers]

Since I do not have SQ Muscovies, ( although my white duck might stand a chance at an exhibition) I will provide you with a link from the web: http://images1.dhd.de/82504882.jpg . This picture merely shows the face, but I think this is the most interesting part for the moment anyways

Here in Germany, it really depends on the breed and whether extremes are desired or not. Sadly, there are breeders who like balloon croppers or crested ducks with large crests or homozygous silky barbary doves or other breeds with traits that cause suffering.

So that's a drake, hmm that is very minimal for fleshing.

 

[Going Quackers]

here is my little guy ducky

so cute, love when their fuzzy.

 

[Going Quackers]

One of the 6 ducklings was limping badly. I caught it and found that a snapping turtle must have got ahold of the little foot for one whole toe was bitten off! Poor little one, I had to trim off some bad skin and let him back with his mom. He is doing better, not limping as much. I call him/her Footsie. LOL

omg! that poor baby! glad it didn't kill it.

 

[Going Quackers]

I hope my blue boy keeps his black and red caruncles. I prefer it. If one of my drakes got so bad as that show one I think I'd be# forced to eat it.

One of my drakes he's a black and white held onto his black facial fleshing... i was surprised by it as it's my first and still only one ever like it.

 

[Going Quackers]

They are really lovely.
Mine are heavily black-and-white pieds or barred. And I love the chocolates which I don´t have, and the blues are just so gorgeous... I only have one bluish barred, would love more.

Thank you i am heavy, heavy chocolate, blue and black and white(those are only drakes though) i do own a few solid whites actually just got a new drake solid white this year, first time in years lol

 

[Going Quackers]

The blue with chocolate are fawn. I had them in my last hatch and this hatch from the same parents. In my hatches they will be female since both parents are blue.

Hmm, i need to get the pic of her alone so my brown with blue is a fawn? neat stuff, she's my very first ever like this a bit of a mystery for awhile what direction she was going to take, i find the colours hard to get a handle on.

 

[TherryChicken]

Hmm, i need to get the pic of her alone so my brown with blue is a fawn? neat stuff, she's my very first ever like this a bit of a mystery for awhile what direction she was going to take, i find the colours hard to get a handle on.

I as well have blue fawn, 2 of them. I was told blue fawns are also lilac..

 

[Frank Phinster]

So that's a drake, hmm that is very minimal for fleshing.

I agree, I was a little in doubt about the sex when I looked for pictures, but to me it still looks more like a drake than a duck. But unfortunately, close-ups from drakes that represent exactly what the standart desires are not easily to find, most pictures showed faces with more caruncles, where my own drake might still be a better example.