Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[MsPoultry]

What another wild Muscovy looks like

 

[Onlyducks]

There is a noticeable difference between the wild and domestic muscovies, though the colors are similar. Wild muscovies have an odd-looking head to me, anyway. With mallards, there really is no difference. Metzger Farms and many other hatcheries remove a back toe from the ducklings to indicate they are of domestic origin.

Buck mentioned wolves to dogs as domestication. I was watching the dog show on TV and it is amazing how many different variations humans have managed to produce from the original wild ancestors. Same for ducks. I look at mallards and try to imagine how you end up with a call duck or a runner. It's pretty amazing.

 

[Buck Oakes]

I agree

 

[Terri O]

What another wild Muscovy looks like

I really like the looks of the wild muscovy! I guess I am not real crazy about all the carbuncles and such that the domestic ones have. You guys also mentioned that they will fly away if not clipped. Only my females can fly but they always just circle the farm and then land back in the dooryard. I love to watch the white winged ones do this on a cloudy day...so beautiful!
Have any of you lost birds by them flying away? I assume that the males of the wild variety can fly as well?

 

[gardengoats11]

When i was young we lost some that were new adults to us from flying away. They were not given enough time to learn where their new home was. Now new adult arrivals get a wing clipped and penned for a few weeks. They are usually fine after that.

 

[Buck Oakes]

I really like the looks of the wild muscovy! I guess I am not real crazy about all the carbuncles and such that the domestic ones have.  You guys also mentioned that they will fly away if not clipped.  Only my females can fly but they always just circle the farm and then land back in the dooryard.  I love to watch the white winged ones do this on a cloudy day...so beautiful!
 Have any of you lost birds by them flying away?  I assume that the males of the wild variety can fly as well?

Well all muscovies, even the males even if te fall after Lols, are capable of flying, but yes the wild type males are excellent at it, and no Mine just stay around and fly all over the property but usually just stay in a relative area. And be actually the wild types do have cruncles, they're just relatively black with a few reddish spots,

 

[dan26552]

I really like the looks of the wild muscovy! I guess I am not real crazy about all the carbuncles and such that the domestic ones have.  You guys also mentioned that they will fly away if not clipped.  Only my females can fly but they always just circle the farm and then land back in the dooryard.  I love to watch the white winged ones do this on a cloudy day...so beautiful!
 Have any of you lost birds by them flying away?  I assume that the males of the wild variety can fly as well?

We've had ours just under a year they were all fine and then three (including my only male) just up and disappeared on the same night

 

[MsPoultry]

We've had ours just under a year they were all fine and then three (including my only male) just up and disappeared on the same night

That sucks we a very long time ago grew up some mallards they flew away and almost every spring they visit for a couple days which is cool

 

[JLam]

Hey fellow BYC waterfowlers

I recently got 9 Muscovy hatching eggs shipped to me for incubation. Upon arrival, I candled them which showed all with detached air cells. Ten days into the incubation, I candled them again to my disappointment, all were clear.

So this is a question for some of you more experienced folks. Is it even possible for fertile shipped eggs to be damaged to the point where they do not develop at all? I was expecting at least some development if they were fertile - some blood rings, dead, quits, or something at least.

I decided to crack them open. They all pretty much looked like the pictures below which I believe is not fertile. Am I right to believe I was shipped yolkers?

 

[MsPoultry]

No you should have had at least one egg that tried unless they were seriously messed with but then the eggshell probably would have been cracked so it sounds like you were given infertile eggs