Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[Mi Ranchito]

My Lucy hatched two ducklings this past Saturday. I only gave her three eggs, since this is her first hatch. These little cuties are already loving the water at two days old! Mother Lucy is a good mother, ever watchful of her babies while they swim around.

 

[Miss Lydia]

My Lucy hatched two ducklings this past Saturday. I only gave her three eggs, since this is her first hatch. These little cuties are already loving the water at two days old! Mother Lucy is a good mother, ever watchful of her babies while they swim around.

How sweet, they look like they are enjoying them selves. Beautiful place too.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Funny story: I did a fecal flotation on my muscovies and I noticed capillaria, so I decided to deworm for three days with fenbendazole. Except, I decided to use the paste dewormer, comes in a syringe and you can give them each a pea sized portion. Have you ever tried catching 22 free-ranging muscovies who have a 1/4ac, 6ft deep pond to retreat to? The first day went okay, I got everybody dosed and only sustained minor lacerations from my drakes and those little three month old duckling toenails, I think they're sharper than my drakes toenails. By the third day, my husband and I finally managed to dose 3/4 of the flock and we were both criss-crossed with wounds and limping from strained backs.

I went ahead and ordered a pyrantel pellet that I can put into their mushy feed.

That's hilarious, too bad you didn't get this on video.

 

[mara1]

All the pics are cute. Hi Miss Lydia

 

[Miss Lydia]

All the pics are cute. Hi Miss Lydia

Hi,

 

[mara1]

I'll have to get a vid of peeps tonight. Running and swimming like crazy.

 

[insanity]

This is my flock. 2 black drakes and 3 hens (1 black, 1 chocolate, and 1 with brown lacing) They are all about 3 month old.
Lewey

Dewey

Darnyou

The new girls(no names yet) and a drake photo bombing.

 

[Mi Ranchito]

Thank you Miss Lydia!

 

[mara1]

nice pics. Love the names. None of my chicks or other duck has names yet. except the rock x's and the keep changing( drum stick, hot wing ect..)

 

[Miss Lydia]

I'll have to get a vid of peeps tonight. Running and swimming like crazy.