Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[livininbrazil]

so you think they are young layers? I wish I had eggs from my lilacs. Maybe ill get lucky and they snuck in an egg or two

I assumed they were young as you´ve only recently obtained them. Can´t remember exactly what their faces were like, though.

 

[Miss Lydia]

One muscovy hem that I wanted decklings from laid 14 eggs. I divided them up between 4 broody birds, and they´re making little cheeping noises inside their shells today, so over the weekend I should have some ducklings. Two ducks have 4 eggs, two ducks have 3 eggs.

Therry, I reckon they´re almost at the same stage as your little one.

So the season has really opened up for you.. look forward to seeing those ducklings. your going to have babies all over.

 

[Going Quackers]

I´ll take pics if I get a chance. One hen is under a tree root, the first pic here, and three are in boxes, so those shouldn´t be too difficult...


And here´s mum (sitting on 4), I´d just love to get some like her....
If Ido, I´ll be delighted, but extremely surprised. Still, you just never know......

so cute! typical scovie under everything and anything lol

 

[TherryChicken]

I assumed they were young as you´ve only recently obtained them.  Can´t remember exactly what their faces were like, though.

That doesnt mean they are young though lol

 

[TherryChicken]

 

[PoultryQueen101]

Two of my ducks went missing last night, one being a muscovy, the other a magpie. They are two months and have been onthe pond for 3 weeks. The other day, the neighbors horse was sent to have surgery, and they disappeared the next night. I am hopeful that they may have wandered away. We had a goose land on the pond, a lone canadian. We wantdd it to stay, but it disappeared. If we got a goose, will it help keep eatch over the ducks. If so, what kind? We are going to seperate the rest of the ducks for the next few nights to make sure whatever it was doesnt come back.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Two of my ducks went missing last night, one being a muscovy, the other a magpie. They are two months and have been onthe pond for 3 weeks. The other day, the neighbors horse was sent to have surgery, and they disappeared the next night. I am hopeful that they may have wandered away. We had a goose land on the pond, a lone canadian. We wantdd it to stay, but it disappeared. If we got a goose, will it help keep eatch over the ducks. If so, what kind? We are going to seperate the rest of the ducks for the next few nights to make sure whatever it was doesnt come back.

I think we talked about this before your ducks are sitting targets on the pond, beside the pond or anywhere outside at night with out a secure house. I'm not wanting to make you feel any worse but those are just the facts. many a predator will swim for a free meal and owls can swoop in a snatch a 2 month old duckling right off the water. I'm sorry for your losses. a goose can not protect your ducks he has no teeth or claws to defend any one all he can do is honk which most likely in the dead of night he wouldn't do. I have 4 geese and they would not make it a week if I left them outside over night. A pond is no guarantee your water fowl are safe.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Gorgeous ducks.

 

[TherryChicken]

Gorgeous ducks.

thank you, those 2 are the only ones that lay in pool

 

[TherryChicken]

Ok duckling update, its navel is really large, just the hole, it looks like its yolk sack started coming out so I carefully removed it from the shell. I put veterycin on it and the remaining sac. The duckling was upside down in egg so now im very worried the others may be as well too as I have yet to see any improvement from yesterday. Its been pecking at the shell, since yesterday afternoon and still no improvement.