Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[TherryChicken]

Thank you cassie!

 

[barredmuscovy]

this funny his mother is a royal palm turkey HAHAHAHAHA

 

[starterfarm]

Loved all the pictures!! I will have to try to get my little flock to sit still long enough for me to get a non blurry picture...maybe i can get some help on telling what sexes they are..they are only juveniles right now but i thin i have at least one male but im not sure this breed is all new to me.

 

[WildWestChick]

Therry I love the Harry potter names lol!

 

[titika]

Loved all the pictures!! I will have to try to get my little flock to sit still long enough for me to get a non blurry picture...maybe i can get some help on telling what sexes they are..they are only juveniles right now but i thin i have at least one male but im not sure this breed is all new to me.

you can usually tell by the legs. The males will have thicker bigger legs and the females are thinner. Also the females usually grow faster then the males

 

[Going Quackers]

Loved all the pictures!! I will have to try to get my little flock to sit still long enough for me to get a non blurry picture...maybe i can get some help on telling what sexes they are..they are only juveniles right now but i thin i have at least one male but im not sure this breed is all new to me.

Depending on age .. it can be easy.. it's all size.. a couple pics to show you what i mean.

Drake in back, duck in front these guys were fairly young...



Some older ones but under 1yo drake in the back, duck in front...



Drakes are big, big legs, big feet.. just big ducks usually are more refined .. more feminine head... etc.

 

[TherryChicken]

Thank you wildwestchick. Goingquackers, most of the time you can tell by size, but I have 2 5 month old females that are as big as my drake o.o

 

[MuscovyLover]

@GoingQuackers I found with my muscovies that even at a very young age the girls followed the drake around. They were not all smaller than him and one girls legs were as thick as his until they feathered in but all of the gals had smaller feet and behaved/walked etc much more delicately than the drake. He was a clumsy dude from day 1.
Having said all of that, I only had 1 drake and the other three were girls. Had there been another drake that behaviour may have been different possibly too.

 

[barredmuscovy]

found this little guy under my royal palm turkey hen

 

[MuscovyLover]

found this little guy under my royal palm turkey hen

Slight mix up lol. Gorgeous little guy