Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[Buck Oakes]

People think only dogs and cas can have a bond with people , but any animal can , muscovy ducks for example!!!!!!!

 

[livininbrazil]

One for you, MLyd. They´re not mine, I came across them in a park.

They´re obviously not wild ones, but I thought the males were rather handsome.

 

[Miss Lydia]

One for you, MLyd. They´re not mine, I came across them in a park.

They´re obviously not wild ones, but I thought the males were rather handsome.

Oh my gosh livin the top drake looks like my old guy Ernie who has had a birthday this month 10yrs.

beautiful Scovy's

 

[Miss Lydia]

People think only dogs and cas can have a bond with people , but any animal can , muscovy ducks for example!!!!!!!

So true Buck most folks never get an opportunity to have a relationship with any other animal besides dogs/ cats they sure are missing out.

 

[kountryboy4life]

Barred and Rippled are two different things. Here is a page to help with color questions

http://muscovy.us/home/basics

 

[casportpony]

Barred and Rippled are two different things.  Here is a page to help with color questions  
http://muscovy.us/home/basics

InterestIng... Sort of explains why some of mine have the pink beaks, lol.

-Kathy

 

[Buck Oakes]

And this is for crosses, to see what colors you'll get

http://www.muscovyduckcentral.com/genetics.html

 

[MuscovyLover]

Hi allI'm a relative newbie to the world of raising Muscovies and I'm having my first big hiccup!I need some advice:-/I have three girls and one drake that are all siblings.I raised them from two weeks old and they're pets. Quite friendly. I hand fed them grubs and worms when they were little so they are all quite large too.They will be six months old in a few weeks and we still haven't had any eggs or mating so i decided it might be worth a try getting a se ond drake as mine free range around the front yard all day and there are a few girls.He came from a pen of 8 drakes so is quite battered and much smaller tthan mine, though he is about 1 year old.The moment I opened the box he was in, my drake attacked him. The girls even got in on it too. It was horrible! I pulled my drake off the new boy and locked him in his pen. He went crazy!I gave him some time to cool off then let him out again and he ran around the yard mating all of the girls and attacking the new drake again.My thinking is that he isn't attempting to defend himself as he is used to this and realises he is smaller and weaker than my boy. I have been leaving him in the pen during the day with tonnes of food and putting him in the shed at night on his own so he can grow stronger and his wings can repair themselves. Is this the right thing to do?Also, my drake is now following me around the yard and quite aggressively biting me, which he started doing about a week prior to the new drake arriving, around the same time he started trying to mate one of the girls. He's quite big and akward (his wings never formed correctly. I'm told this is called angel wings?) and his bites are leaving big bruises on me:-( It really hurts and I adore this fellow but I'm about ready to kick him up the backside!!What can i do to stop this agression towards me and how can i manage the two drakes?ANY help at all here would be greatly appreciated

 

[kountryboy4life]

I have noticed Muscovy's are keep a rather strict pecking order. Mine are all between 7-11 months old and have just now taken interest in mating. I purchased all of mine last fall. I got them from three different people. I have noticed t hat they still like to keep there little flocks within the flock. The girls mostly. The boys sort of intermingle. Last fall when i introduced my second purchase of three females to the existing flock of six. They were not very nice at all to the new girls. And when i got the next four, it was the same thing. But they were larger then the rest so they did not tolerate it. Sounds like your big guy is a hand full ! I have never had one that was aggressive . So not to sure what to say about that. I know i sure would not let him bite me more then once lol...
but that is just me...

 

[Going Quackers]

Multiple drake flocks require quite a different way of handling things plus some drakes are not cut out for it, i have sold off some here simply because of that reason.

Unfortunately, adding another drake with only 3 ducks really wasn't ideal, at least 2-3 duck per is the basic recommendation. My two oldest drakes do not get on... i usually house them separate at night to reduce friction...

As for the drake going at you, he's confused and is taking you as being a subordinate, he needs to be be put in his place... people have different methods, i will usually push a drake to the ground like a drake will during a tussles not roughly but enough to get it where i am the top drake, i keep solid boundaries with my drakes, they move i never do.

I would pen the newbie within a pen so he can get to know the others but no hurting can take place, i would also recommend more girls... Kountry boy is right, the pecking order is most definitely strong in scovie flocks... worse with the ladies IMO the drakes just knock each other about now and then, the girls... will needle and peck each other.. and fight sometimes too. I run a pretty decent flock mostly scovies.. it;s interesting to see how it plays out.

@ 6mths is quite young, while egg laying can begin between 4-6mths and breeding too, if you have short, cold days of winter it's not unusual for that delay, my ducks only resumed laying and yet normally by early Feb they start back, the winter was nasty and delayed it.