Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[livininbrazil]

Whimpy is all I have to say.

Can´t argue with that! That´s one of the reasons we moved here! And since we moved to Brazil the winters have been worse in England...I´m so glad I´m here, not there!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Can´t argue with that! That´s one of the reasons we moved here! And since we moved to Brazil the winters have been worse in England...I´m so glad I´m here, not there!

I'm with you, got room for a southern girl from the USA?

 

[DaisyMeadow]

Mama showed up for breakfast this morning with only 3 babies. I found one dead in the yard, the other two are still missing. So I committed an act of kidnapping and now have the remaining 3 in a brooder tub in the bathroom (with reluctant permission from the dh, of course). I felt somewhat bad for mama as she desperately started looking for her babies after I nabbed them. Of course, if she had cared where they were sooner, it would not have come to this. I hope she does better next time. Warmer weather will help, for sure.

 

[muscovy man14]

Down here it rarely gets to 30 degrees which is how cold it was today! I went out there this morning and two of the males and 4 of the females tale feathers and flight feathers were frozen stiff!! I felt bad for them but there not tame enough yet to hold

 

[livininbrazil]

Mama showed up for breakfast this morning with only 3 babies. I found one dead in the yard, the other two are still missing. So I committed an act of kidnapping and now have the remaining 3 in a brooder tub in the bathroom (with reluctant permission from the dh, of course). I felt somewhat bad for mama as she desperately started looking for her babies after I nabbed them. Of course, if she had cared where they were sooner, it would not have come to this. I hope she does better next time. Warmer weather will help, for sure.

Sad isn´t it? They sit so well on those little eggs, then lose them later. I remember I gave a duck to my neighbour, and she laid eggs and sat on them, hatched out 8 little tiddlers, and brought them all back to my chácara! (farmstead)! I caught them all up, took them all back to my neighbour, he put them with mom in an aviary for a week, let them out again...wel, after a while he had none left. Mom just hadn´t settled there, and was taking them for long distances, eventually the lot disappeared. She looked for them for ages, poor thing. She moved back here with us, and is much more settled now and has raised very well a brood of ducklings. funny ducks. Maybe next time will be better for your duck, but don´t forget...one of the reasons some birds lay a lot of eggs is because there are high losses. Sad fact. Mine will raise 8 with no problem, but I usually leave them with just 2 eggs to keep numbers down.

 

[livininbrazil]

I'm with you, got room for a southern girl from the USA?

There´s always room for another bird!!

Down here it rarely gets to 30 degrees which is how cold it was today! I went out there this morning and two of the males and 4 of the females tale feathers and flight feathers were frozen stiff!! I felt bad for them but there not tame enough yet to hold

And these also need the southern american temperatures!

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

Oh yeah, they can overpopulate for sure. 2 yrs ago I had 3 ducks and a Drake muscovy in the apring and over a hundred by Autumn.

 

[joelharris]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Oh yeah, they can overpopulate for sure. 2 yrs ago I had 3 ducks and a Drake muscovy in the apring and over a hundred by Autumn.

 

[livininbrazil]

Oh yeah, they can overpopulate for sure. 2 yrs ago I had 3 ducks and a Drake muscovy in the apring and over a hundred by Autumn.

But the question is, do you like duck on your plate?????? I think you do, as you must have incubated the eggs, or you have very prolific ducks that hatch 20+ at a time!!!! Mine tend to lay only 6 to 10 eggs before they go broody, and I take most of those away! There´s someone near here that raises them for their meat, and hers raise 20 or so at a time, and she has so many of them. Then, all of a sudden, she´ll be down to just a few...the others all gone....(in the freezer).