Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[jennifleur]

My flock. Im hoping the little duckling is a girl. My young drake is on the right, looking at the camera. Other three are female.

 

[poult]

My flock. Im hoping the little duckling is a girl. My young drake is on the right, looking at the camera. Other three are female.

They are all very beautiful! What kind of cat is that?

 

[jennifleur]

He is a Bengal. The ducks have their wings clipped, but if they go to the top of the hill they can fly a short ways down to the grass. Cat goes crazy when they do this, fluffs up his tail, runs over and starts jumping around them. Hates when they splash him. Has never tried to eat them, unlike the Quail. He loves quail, they are delicious.

 

[poult]

He is a Bengal. The ducks have their wings clipped, but if they go to the top of the hill they can fly a short ways down to the grass. Cat goes crazy when they do this, fluffs up his tail, runs over and starts jumping around them. Hates when they splash him. Has never tried to eat them, unlike the Quail. He loves quail, they are delishous.

He is very very beautiful i have six cats of my own altogether my family & I have 14 though.My cats often eat chicken feed with the flock if Assyra(my attack goose) is feeling kind.Thats really cute! Yes mine never harm the flock but if I had anything smaller then banties I bet they would have an eating frenzy.

 

[Miss Lydia]

My flock. Im hoping the little duckling is a girl. My young drake is on the right, looking at the camera. Other three are female.

They are beautiful ,I love that baby.

 

[Alaskan]

OK... question ...


I am DEEPLY attached to my drake, and one of my ducks.

I have one drake (named Drake), 4 years old this year, my favorite duck (Kuhflecken) is also 4.. then I have Keks who is also 4, and Creamy is 2.

OK,

1. I really need them to keep producing ducklings every year...

2. I am under the impression that at 4 a drake starts to decline in fertility, and keeps going downhill from there

3. I am under the impression that a duck will only lay until maybe age 5

so.... my questions are as follows:

a. do all of y'all agree with points 2 and 3 above?

b. I was thinking I would raise up one drakeling this year, and keep him, but keep him AND his father

c. I would buy 3 or 4 new ducks from someone else... thinking with 6ish girls, maybe the two drakes could live happily together. The two oldest girls would stop laying eggs soon, so it wouldn't matter if their son bred them, Creamy would still produce for a couple to three years, but the young more fertile ducks would all be unrelated... so it should be at least mostly good.




Would that work? about 6 girls, the old boy and a son...... They have a coop about 8x4 with an extra nest box on the side and an elevated deck of about 2x6.

My drake is EXCELLENT and SUPER nice, he takes care of ducklings, he acts as guard and he has earthworm farms that he manages. I am hoping that one of his sons would be just as kind and sweet.

We did, the first year that we had them, have a son that we let get several months old before we ate him... and Drake could tell that he was turning into a drake, so Drake had started chasing him a bit more than I liked..... at that point they didn't have a big coop, they had several small sleeping spots inside a large grassy fenced in run.

 

[Alaskan]

now, since this is a picture thread...



Creamy is the one at the back, and Keks is in the front... these are from last year..


my Drake


here is a good picture of the inside of my coop. Drake stays on the bottom right by the door to act as guard, and he is a GOOD guard! The three girls on top from left to right are Kuhflecken (our favorite), Keks, and Toffee (that we lost about a month back

) I can't remember where Creamy was hiding.

 

[poult]

I am just going to say this.I have an eight-year-old hen that lays an egg a day and is bred with some younger males and her eggs are still totally hatchable. Cute pictures to BTW.

 

[Alaskan]

I am just going to say this.I have an eight-year-old hen that lays an egg a day and is bred with some younger males and her eggs are still totally hatchable. Cute pictures to BTW.

(can you tell me that your 8 year old drake can still do his job too????)

 

[Alaskan]

One more thing.....


Anyone else have a drake (or duck) that runs their own earthworm farm?

Our drake will get bill fulls of water and walk them all the way over to one of his two earthworm farms. He wets the ground with the water. He will then dig up the earth with his bill, push it out of the way with his feet, and then find the earthworms, usually lots. He tosses them out to his ladies, and eats a few himself. This last time that the kids watched, Kuhflecken wasn't with him, so he picked up the biggest fattest worm, and carried it all of the way into the coop to the back corner where her nest is, to feed it to her.


Oh, he puts all of the dirt back when he is done farming. And he has two farms, one along the edge of a rock, and one in a more sunny spot.