Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[Miss Lydia]

i was thinking about nest boxes like you would use for chickens 14" x 14" but without a bottom & setting rite on the ground

Try one and see how they like it. I have one Scovy duck that likes to lay her egg in a chickens nest box it's a kitty litter box with top. She's never brooded in one though

 

[Miss Lydia]

Just pen up the females and babies or the drake

Best thing to do.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Well I am going to pen up the girls for 3 or 4 days atleast, but to get water and swim, you know will worry me.

If you have an aggressive drake you need to keep mamas and ducklings away from him for at least 3 weeks, use temp fencing the plastic poultry fence from Lowes works great and the fiber glass poles are about 2.60 a piece. easy to put up and take down but it would be such a shame to take those babies away from their mamas after they have been so good at brooding. You don't want to put a pool in with mamas and ducklings right off, ducklings could chill and drown. Mama's won't care that much about bathing after ducklings hatch give them about a week to get the ducklings going good then give them a small pan [kitty litter pans work well ]to bath in making sure to keep and eye on the ducklings that they can get in and out safely.

 

[TherryChicken]

Ok, well idk if he is aggresive or not. Im still new to ducks, but. Ill deff do that. The coop is a tight fit with ducklings. A very tight fit, but for their safety ill keep them in there.

 

[RoostersCrow HensDeliver!]

Sharing a pic of my first ever muscovy duckling. It is the only one that hatched out of 10 eggs
He was upside down in his egg and had pipped in the small end, I had to help him a LOT to get him out but he seems to be doing okay.

 

[Buck Oakes]

Sharing a pic of my first ever muscovy duckling. It is the only one that hatched out of 10 eggs He was upside down in his egg and had pipped in the small end, I had to help him a LOT to get him out but he seems to be doing okay.

Oh my gosh I hope the little guy will be okay I'll pray for him and you, what a bad experience for your first muscovy hatch

 

[Buck Oakes]

Okay and I know it's not really muscovy related but I'm incubating a mallard Rouen hybrid egg and it's been in a class room incubator like u know the kind with really bad temperatures and u have to turn it twice a day well it's been in that incubator for around I want to say14 to 18 days, and the embryo hasn't grown much but it's alive , and so I moved it to my incubator that turns hourly on Thursday and I candled it and now the embryo looks a lot bigger like it's at the point where it's almost ready to internally pip, I don't know if that's possible but I know what I saw, could it be possible that I didn't candle it right before I moved it? And is it safe that I'm putting the egg in an incubator with a higher temp ( the small incubator was on like 80 or 90 degrees and now it's on 99.5) or did the classroom incubator just store the egg and put it in a state of stability till it was ready to be incubated. I don't know if that this paragraph makes since because of the sentence structure , since I'm not trying to use school right now.

 

[Buck Oakes]

So this is what it was in but u know it had a lightbulb and a dome over it, to

This

 

[Miss Lydia]

So this is what it was in but u know it had a lightbulb and a dome over it, to


This

I know nothing about bators Buck but i hope the lil one makes it.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Sharing a pic of my first ever muscovy duckling. It is the only one that hatched out of 10 eggs
He was upside down in his egg and had pipped in the small end, I had to help him a LOT to get him out but he seems to be doing okay.

Congrats on the lil one, I hope you'll consider getting it a buddy they do so much better if they have another. and please take it off the wire it's really bad on their lil feet. it's so cute maybe a cuddly stuffed animal and a non breakable mirror till it can have a real friend.