Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[EdenCamp]

Interesting! i admit i am awful at the colours, i try to just stay out of it my brain refuses to wrap itself around the complications of it all lol I am dying to know what i get from this last hatch, oddly enough one of the preemies is an almost white down with the dark maybe brown colour? never had one like, ever and i have loads of scovie babies.

I know some of the eggs are her's, she's a chocolate but after that not sure.. with so many ducks they sneak eggs in and frankly scovies are egg stealers..

That's to bad about the dog and the goose eggs! i know the feeling the one dog getting into this last nest is what kick started this premature hatching, he was just hoping for eggs.

That is your dog? nice a great pyrenees, a place my mother boarded her horse at raised some, they were adorable puppies so fluffy.

LOL! I obcessed about color genetics at one point. Saw a reference to calico scovies - and I LOVE calico. Unfortunately, seems calico is a scovy unicorn. Anyway, focused on chocolates tho the lilacs are lovely too.

Egg stealers, shared nests and a breeding free for all - scovy's get a mix hatching out of a single nest and that makes it interesting.

The girl (on the couch - what a moose!) is all perry. The boy is half maramar which is a foundation breed for the perry when they were created. They clued on the egg situation and the girl even guards eggs now. They know to only eat eggs when I give them to them. Smart dogs.
Excellent guardians. The girl especially is sooooooooooo emotionally sensitive a scolding is reacted to like a "beating" (and no, I don't beat them) , just really desire to please.

I loose bity babies to the farm cats but only 1, a nesting turkey away from the house, in almost a year now. The cats are going...

 

[EdenCamp]

Interesting! i admit i am awful at the colours, i try to just stay out of it my brain refuses to wrap itself around the complications of it all lol I am dying to know what i get from this last hatch, oddly enough one of the preemies is an almost white down with the dark maybe brown colour? never had one like, ever and i have loads of scovie babies.

I know some of the eggs are her's, she's a chocolate but after that not sure.. with so many ducks they sneak eggs in and frankly scovies are egg stealers..

That's to bad about the dog and the goose eggs! i know the feeling the one dog getting into this last nest is what kick started this premature hatching, he was just hoping for eggs.

That is your dog? nice a great pyrenees, a place my mother boarded her horse at raised some, they were adorable puppies so fluffy.

LOL! I obcessed about color genetics at one point. Saw a reference to calico scovies - and I LOVE calico. Unfortunately, seems calico is a scovy unicorn. Anyway, focused on chocolates tho the lilacs are lovely too.

Egg stealers, shared nests and a breeding free for all - scovy's get a mix hatching out of a single nest and that makes it interesting.

The girl (on the couch - what a moose!) is all perry. The boy is half maramar which is a foundation breed for the perry when they were created. They clued on the egg situation and the girl even guards eggs now. They know to only eat eggs when I give them to them. Smart dogs.
Excellent guardians. The girl especially is sooooooooooo emotionally sensitive a scolding is reacted to like a "beating" (and no, I don't beat them) , just really desire to please.

I loose bity babies to the farm cats but only 1, a nesting turkey away from the house, in almost a year now. The cats are going...

 

[gaitngirl]

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i generally don't add adults of anything here to lessen the risk and mostly just seem to magically get my own

The 'scovie fairy needs to get lost!

 

[Going Quackers]

LOL! I obcessed about color genetics at one point. Saw a reference to calico scovies - and I LOVE calico. Unfortunately, seems calico is a scovy unicorn. Anyway, focused on chocolates tho the lilacs are lovely too.

Egg stealers, shared nests and a breeding free for all - scovy's get a mix hatching out of a single nest and that makes it interesting.

The girl (on the couch - what a moose!) is all perry. The boy is half maramar which is a foundation breed for the perry when they were created. They clued on the egg situation and the girl even guards eggs now. They know to only eat eggs when I give them to them. Smart dogs.
Excellent guardians. The girl especially is sooooooooooo emotionally sensitive a scolding is reacted to like a "beating" (and no, I don't beat them) , just really desire to please.

I loose bity babies to the farm cats but only 1, a nesting turkey away from the house, in almost a year now. The cats are going...

I recall something about it that, fortunately for now only 'scovies are out there so i know whatever i get it's all scovie, the trouble will be when the buffs come to laying age but i don't even know what's happening with them yet, they are 'paired' with the scovie babies so who knows, they may end up being there own flock...

They are nice dogs, it's said they guard their 100 and the neighbours lol we don't have any guardian dogs, with so many house dogs i am not sure how that would work out. I am fortunate my barn cat leaves things alone, he's a rescue and is very good at keeping wandering cats off the place.

 

[jdywntr]

My newest editions. Not sure how many are there but it's a nest full.

 

[Miss Lydia]

My newest editions. Not sure how many are there but it's a nest full.

Precious, Congrats!!

 

[gaitngirl]

Well 2 were lost last night (the gent I got them from didn't know baby ducks could drown even in a small bucket of drinking water) so my 18 became 16. I brought mama home with the babies and my drake immediately flew into the enclosure and jumped her. He shows no interest in any of the other breeds of duck hens other than Muscovies. Mama duck flew away but luckily came right back. Razzy (my drake) and mama duck both got wing clippings shortly thereafter . . .
Here are the babies just after they arrived

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[keirys]

oh they are so cute I cant wait to see them tomorrow

 

[gaitngirl]

Is there a way to tell what colors they will be? Other than just waiting, lol? There are a lot of ducklings with brown and yellow and a couple with black and yellow . . .

 

[keirys]

I have no clue lol