Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[casportpony]

Everyone, nice pictures!

-Kathy

 

[poult]

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.

Aw I'm sorry

Mine got there's at a few months of age it took a long time to fill in though and they are stilling growing more red flesh & there a year old! Be careful with those yarn collars! If they come of they'll eat them and that can lead to an intestinal blockage causing death.And or they'll get it stuck around they're jaw and then it's really hard to get off when they start to squirm I've had chicks do it.I don't use collars anymore unless it's on my geese but I was afraid they might get it caught on fencing and choke themselves.Poultry & waterfowl are like having a bunch of toddlers anything you can think they might be able to get injured with they will.Also I worry like no one else about my flock.

You can use zip ties as leg bands.They have to be removed as they grow though! You can buy colored zip ties and have a color identification key by name.Or you can buy a bunch of the same colored zip ties and with a marker smudge there foreheads with a bit of color to tell them apart until you can by there feathers

 

[poult]

Everyone, nice pictures!

-Kathy

Thanks Kathy! I like your new avatar!

 

[LBejaran]

Aw I'm sorry

Mine got there's at a few months of age it took a long time to fill in though and they are stilling growing more red flesh & there a year old! Be careful with those yarn collars! If they come of they'll eat them and that can lead to an intestinal blockage causing death.And or they'll get it stuck around they're jaw and then it's really hard to get off when they start to squirm I've had chicks do it.I don't use collars anymore unless it's on my geese but I was afraid they might get it caught on fencing and choke themselves.Poultry & waterfowl are like having a bunch of toddlers anything you can think they might be able to get injured with they will.Also I worry like no one else about my flock.

You can use zip ties as leg bands.They have to be removed as they grow though! You can buy colored zip ties and have a color identification key by name.Or you can buy a bunch of the same colored zip ties and with a marker smudge there foreheads with a bit of color to tell them apart until you can by there feathers

Okay, so hopefully mine will get hers soon. I just need to be able to tell her apart from the others. They all kinda look the same, haha!

I'm being super careful with the yarn collars. I clipped any excess and it's just tight enough that they don't get their mouths stuck. So far, they are doing really well.

I'm going to buy some leg bands soon. I'm just waiting for my paycheck to come in.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: You're welcome, and thanks!

-Kathy

 

[poult]

Okay, so hopefully mine will get hers soon.  I just need to be able to tell her apart from the others.  They all kinda look the same, haha!

I'm being super careful with the yarn collars.  I clipped any excess and it's just tight enough that they don't get their mouths stuck.  So far, they are doing really well.

I'm going to buy some leg bands soon.  I'm just waiting for my paycheck to come in. 

Yeah same with my new ducklings all exactly the same! Dirty little mongrels keep playing in their food!

That sounds good Some inexperienced owners don't know that stuff is all but you know what your doing!

Aw yes!

 

[poult]

You're welcome, and thanks!

-Kathy

 

[RyanGriffeth]

Hi everyone, I have a couple quick questions. My drams have just started laying and i'm up to 4 eggs in 2 days. Is it better to collect the eggs or just allow them to stay where they are laying? The 5 day forecast shows for day time temps up to 61 degrees and night temps as low as 37. Is it better to give the ducks as much space as possible and let them do all the work?

 

[TherryChicken]

Hi everyone, I have a couple quick questions. My drams have just started laying and i'm up to 4 eggs in 2 days. Is it better to collect the eggs or just allow them to stay where they are laying? The 5 day forecast shows for day time temps up to 61 degrees and night temps as low as 37. Is it better to give the ducks as much space as possible and let them do all the work?

If they are going to sit, only thing you need to worry about is making sure momma gets off every once in a while for food and water

 

[Alaskan]

I have the best drake ever!

My drake always sits at the door into the duck coop on guard duty... the other day one of my kids saw a little ermine try to dart into the coop, the drake pinned it down with his hooked bill and then stomped it to death.

He wouldn't eat it though, even when my kid encouraged him to... so my son tossed the body down our slope.... silly boy, I told him that we could have turned it into a hat band!


(my drake is called Drake)