Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[Deej211]

Best thing to do is have a designated place for laying and brooding leaving a duck or any fowl outside to brood is asking for trouble a predator is going to find them . They need a night time sleeping house and inside privacy for laying and brooding.
A couple years ago there was a beautiful blue Muscovy down along out river, and after seeing her along the road i tried many times to get to her I wanted to bring her home I'm sure she flew off from someones home. any way she was so skiddish every time i'd try to get near her she'd fly down to the river very steep sides so no way of getting down myself. Well one day my dh comes home and says we have an Eagle on the river we jump in the truck and head down there and there the eagle sits in a tree right above where this Muscovy is hanging out, next day she is gone. No doubt in my mind who took her. I hated it happened I wanted to bring her home so bad.

 

[Deej211]

Best thing to do is have a designated place for laying and brooding leaving a duck or any fowl outside to brood is asking for trouble a predator is going to find them . They need a night time sleeping house and inside privacy for laying and brooding.
A couple years ago there was a beautiful blue Muscovy down along out river, and after seeing her along the road i tried many times to get to her I wanted to bring her home I'm sure she flew off from someones home. any way she was so skiddish every time i'd try to get near her she'd fly down to the river very steep sides so no way of getting down myself. Well one day my dh comes home and says we have an Eagle on the river we jump in the truck and head down there and there the eagle sits in a tree right above where this Muscovy is hanging out, next day she is gone. No doubt in my mind who took her. I hated it happened I wanted to bring her home so bad.

thats exactly where i got this one. About 6 months ago. My dad lives on the wild river and she kept coming to his house. I trapped her (lots of bread and a few hrs later) i brought her home. She was gorgeous. Blue duck too.

 

[Miss Lydia]

thats exactly where i got this one. About 6 months ago. My dad lives on the wild river and she kept coming to his house. I trapped her (lots of bread and a few hrs later) i brought her home. She was gorgeous. Blue duck too.

That's too bad you lost her. I know Eagles and other birds of prey need to eat and feed their young, just wish they'd prey on their natural food instead of our flocks. So far thank the Lord I haven't lost any water fowl to a pred but I have lost a few chickens. Always sad.

 

[tmonaa16]

The friendliest duck I've ever owned! He's so fascinated by the camera.

 

[poult]

So for those who haven't heard or did my goose was laying on 10 marked chicken eggs.Then there was 7 marked eggs then there was about 15 eggs and I could barely see the markings on them I wrote with a pencil they may have been rubbed off or something but I normally mark them so when momma leaves the hens that lay new unmarked eggs while she's gone can be removed and brought in to eat before they start to develop.Well that doesn't work when you can't see the markings.And since the originals were breaking and being replaced by new eggs she would probably end up with very few hatched chicks so I had decided I would get her some ducklings and put them in the nest when she leaves and remove a few of the eggs and leave some shells so it would seem they just hatched well when momma came back she hissed and attacked them harshly so I set up a brooder and gave her eggs back and the duckling are being raised with my feeder chicks so my goose Assyra is on her own with those eggs since she didn't want the ducklings :/ I hope they hatch for her sake.If they do I'm very happy for her and always have enough time for some more biddies I'm still ecstatic I have new ducklings! I wanted to get some really bad anyhow so if it went bad like it has I would just raise them.I got the ducklings at Tractor Supply at they said they were unsexed so that's the only bad part really they didn't know their breed but had a list of breeds they could be and they look like black Swedish ducks! So welcome to your new home!

I have 3 and I was thinking Edgar,Allan & Poe would be suitable names after the poet

 

[LBejaran]

So for those who haven't heard or did my goose was laying on 10 marked chicken eggs.Then there was 7 marked eggs then there was about 15 eggs and I could barely see the markings on them I wrote with a pencil they may have been rubbed off or something but I normally mark them so when momma leaves the hens that lay new unmarked eggs while she's gone can be removed and brought in to eat before they start to develop.Well that doesn't work when you can't see the markings.And since the originals were breaking and being replaced by new eggs she would probably end up with very few hatched chicks so I had decided I would get her some ducklings and put them in the nest when she leaves and remove a few of the eggs and leave some shells so it would seem they just hatched well when momma came back she hissed and attacked them harshly so I set up a brooder and gave her eggs back and the duckling are being raised with my feeder chicks so my goose Assyra is on her own with those eggs since she didn't want the ducklings :/ I hope they hatch for her sake.If they do I'm very happy for her and always have enough time for some more biddies I'm still ecstatic I have new ducklings! I wanted to get some really bad anyhow so if it went bad like it has I would just raise them.I got the ducklings at Tractor Supply at they said they were unsexed so that's the only bad part really they didn't know their breed but had a list of breeds they could be and they look like black Swedish ducks! So welcome to your new home!

I have 3 and I was thinking Edgar,Allan & Poe would be suitable names after the poet

Oh, I love Swedish ducks! Those are such cute names, too! We had one (unoriginally, we called her Swedie). She was my sister's and she was very loved. She had such a great personality, too! Unfortunately, she was one of the birds we lost to an owl. But I have about ten of her babies!

 

[poult]

Oh, I love Swedish ducks! Those are such cute names, too! We had one (unoriginally, we called her Swedie). She was my sister's and she was very loved. She had such a great personality, too! Unfortunately, she was one of the birds we lost to an owl. But I have about ten of her babies!

I'm sorry you losses her but glad you have all of her children! I haven't decided which names will go to who because I can't tell them apart right now but I should soon enough!

 

[LBejaran]

I'm sorry you losses her but glad you have all of her children! I haven't decided which names will go to who because I can't tell them apart right now but I should soon enough!

I wish I could tell her children apart, haha! They are all fairly different, but they look similar enough to confuse me. Wish I didn't have to sell some, but that there are so many ducklings.

I'm probably going to pick the ones I really like and keep them. There are a couple real cuties that just demand that I never let them go, hehe!

 

[poult]

I wish I could tell her children apart, haha! They are all fairly different, but they look similar enough to confuse me. Wish I didn't have to sell some, but that there are so many ducklings.

I'm probably going to pick the ones I really like and keep them. There are a couple real cuties that just demand that I never let them go, hehe!

I had five Buff Orpington pullets at once and they all had a name that began with sun there was Sunshine,Sunlit,Sunlight,Sunflower & Sunshadow just a lot of hens that looked exactly alike and I could tell them apart by leg bands! They all slowing died off from sickness mostly.

I understand that!

 

[LBejaran]

I had five Buff Orpington pullets at once and they all had a name that began with sun there was Sunshine,Sunlit,Sunlight,Sunflower & Sunshadow just a lot of hens that looked exactly alike and I could tell them apart by leg bands! They all slowing died off from sickness mostly.

I understand that!

I have used to have two Australorp hens that were darn near identical...and then Dad ran one over. I don't let him drive in reverse in the backyard unless I'm there to stop the destruction.

These Muscovy babies are just so strange, though. Around what age do they get their caruncles? I can't sell any of my older ducks until I know who is who. I desperately want to keep my muscovies. The babies I have have little yarn collars (not ideal but it'll work until I get leg bands).

How do you tell them apart? I'm guessing they have to feather out, at least. I'm waiting for her tail to stop bending upward and for the quacking to change to hissing. Hasn't happened yet.