Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[casportpony]

Quote: I'd prefer to let them do it on their own.

-Kathy

 

[TherryChicken]

Good luck with the hatch but honestly i'd let her be.. all the candling in the world will not get you to avoid trouble, i have found that just doesn't help, i will candle an egg to see if the nest is worthwhile but let things be after that.. otherwise i am only harassing the mama, personally i have had hatches go either way my candling has made no difference.  

oh no I only candled twice I think during the whole sitting

 

[LilyD]

So was changing waters and cleaning out pools this morning and caught this funny picture. You would think with 2 pools they would have plenty of places to swim but I guess the water buckets are more fun. They are just the right size for one lol.

 

[TherryChicken]

So was changing waters and cleaning out pools this morning and caught this funny picture. You would think with 2 pools they would have plenty of places to swim but I guess the water buckets are more fun. They are just the right size for one lol.

haha fresh water, who wouldnt croud the pool?

 

[Alice28]

That bird is so small for a drake.. i just don't see it sorry i simply don't.. if you look through my album you'll see dozens and dozens of scovies.. the males are really big my just turned 8wk old i am standing there staring at them this am and they are bigger than their mother.. pouring rain or i'd show you. This is a pic of Julie last year i cannot recall her age in this pic but less than 1yo as she didn't turn one till this March..

That's what I thought too, she's really not very big, but I've had a few say they think that she's a drake. I hope your right. My son will be so sad if one day she's not here and that will be the case if it turns out I have a drake.

 

[TherryChicken]

Candling has allowed me to save quite a few that could not pip externally.

-Kathy

dido.. or figure out who is still alive if mom decides to leave the nest, or atleast which are good eggs

 

[Miss Lydia]

So was changing waters and cleaning out pools this morning and caught this funny picture. You would think with 2 pools they would have plenty of places to swim but I guess the water buckets are more fun. They are just the right size for one lol.

That is so cute..

 

[Miss Lydia]

That's what I thought too, she's really not very big, but I've had a few say they think that she's a drake. I hope your right. My son will be so sad if one day she's not here and that will be the case if it turns out I have a drake.

You know pics are so hard to go by, some of my girls look like drakes in pics on here you just can't always tell. I like to see legs under them face forward and body shape so if you can get a good pic of her face forward so we can see how her legs set under her that may cinch the deal. You said she walk with her feet almost touching right? none of my drakes have walked that way always my girls.

 

[Alice28]

You know pics are so hard to go by, some of my girls look like drakes in pics on here you just can't always tell. I like to see legs under them face forward and body shape so if you can get a good pic of her face forward so we can see how her legs set under her that may cinch the deal. You said she walk with her feet almost touching right? none of my drakes have walked that way always my girls.

I wa able to get some pictures, but it won't let me load them. I will try again later. She or he also already had to have wings clipped. She/he was getting pretty high off the ground. Once my husband thought she would go over the fence! I don't know if that means anything. We clipped the secondary flight feathers on one wing and she could still get high, so cut the primary flight feathers on the other wing. Figure that would get her off balance enough

 

[Going Quackers]

oh no I only candled twice I think during the whole sitting

dido.. or figure out who is still alive if mom decides to leave the nest, or atleast which are good eggs

That's okay, it was just sounding like you were candling often, if circumstances arise where a duck abandons a nest of coarse one would check the eggs, to me that is not the same thing as constantly candling a nest, some i have never even candled .. again i am not one to leave something to die but not all things are in my control and when i use live incubators i feel for the most part they should handle the situation, after all that is the main point of having live brooders is so i can keep a distanced approach.

Again, though this is really a management thing, we all handle our flocks differently.