Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[MnmMonster]

Hey everyone I have some questions!
1.) my muscovies are approximately a year old, when should I expect them to start laying? (I have 4 hens and a drake)
2.) I was told muscovies get darker in the winter. No one told this to my girl maddie! She's a tri chocolate and her whole head turned from brown to white! Is this normal or is my duck just a special snowflake?
3.) how aggressive are muscovy drakes? I have a ancona drake for a breeding project (ancona pekin crosses) and I was wondering if They would fight when breeding season came round.
That sums up my questions!

 

[casportpony]

Quote: That's from earlier this year.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Lol I wasn't very specific with my question I was wondering if houdiniduck could post a pic of the mystery egg

Sorry, my mistake, I was stuck on stupid, lol.

-Kathy

 

[Rachele anne]

Did u have good hatching rates cause I'm having an issue incubating muscovys

 

[casportpony]

Did u have good hatching rates cause I'm having an issue incubating muscovys

They're hard to hatch. Have you read the incubating Muscovy threads?

-Kathy

 

[buff goose guy]

Hey everyone I have some questions!
1.) my muscovies are approximately a year old, when should I expect them to start laying? (I have 4 hens and a drake)
2.) I was told muscovies get darker in the winter. No one told this to my girl maddie! She's a tri chocolate and her whole head turned from brown to white! Is this normal or is my duck just a special snowflake?
3.) how aggressive are muscovy drakes? I have a ancona drake for a breeding project (ancona pekin crosses) and I was wondering if They would fight when breeding season came round.
That sums up my questions!

Our Muscovys lay around 6 months.

No all of ours get lighter in winter.

Muscovy drakes , in our experience, are only aggressive to other Muscovy drakes.

 

[Onlyducks]

Hey everyone I have some questions!
1.) my muscovies are approximately a year old, when should I expect them to start laying? (I have 4 hens and a drake)
2.) I was told muscovies get darker in the winter. No one told this to my girl maddie! She's a tri chocolate and her whole head turned from brown to white! Is this normal or is my duck just a special snowflake?
3.) how aggressive are muscovy drakes? I have a ancona drake for a breeding project (ancona pekin crosses) and I was wondering if They would fight when breeding season came round.
That sums up my questions!

I don't know the answer to #1—mine were adults when I got them.

Mine did get darker, but I'm sure not all do. Mine are a pretty green/black right now.

My male did not really interact much with the Pekin drake I had. For a week or so, there was some chasing about and the Muscovies would corner the Pekins (male and female) in their pen and not let them out, but then they seemed to lose interest and from that point on, just ignored each other.

 

[Paigej]

My trio of muscovy ducklings went outside for the first time today. They loved it. They have a welsh harlequin buddy in their flock.

 

[Miss Lydia]

My trio of muscovy ducklings went outside for the first time today. They loved it. They have a welsh harlequin buddy in their flock.

They are beautiful, I bet they loved it. getting to noodle around in the ground, what fun!!

 

[Paigej]

Thanks! When I brought them back inside they all went right to sleep! Too cute. They're starting to get feathers now, I love this age.