Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[Buck Oakes]

Yeah last year that wouldn't quite setting on them, with my pure white female, flo, she had so many eggs in one nest box I was surprised she fit in there with them, I move her to a dog house with her eggs, 11 babies from that clutch though :/ for others I take away some eggs, this year I'm not allowing them to set, mainly bc I have some health problems that have to do with worms so that's the reason I have all these eggs and can't even sell or hatch them since they started there deworming :/ but they're getting better And that's the important thing

 

[cajunfowl0]

Are they first year birds? Bcus that would explain the not setting and the prolific egg laying. I would say it's ok to hatch eggs still btw. Most birds have worms that u don't even know about that don't affect the bird at all. Just bcus one bird has worms also doesn't mean they all have worms. A couple years ago I had a peacock that I if to bring to the vet he had some type of bug on him and the vet told me that the other two would certainly I've the bugs too but they didn't,

 

[Buck Oakes]

No no they try to set all the time, I just won't let them right now, and trust me they all have worms, these worms infect the pond so that's why :/

See I took them to the vet on Tuesday and my vet told me all about the kind of worms they had, they had/have 3 kinds and I'm treatin them to get rid of them. And the type of medicine were using makes eggs pretty much bad to eat, but I'm going to call her back probably this coming up Tuesday and ask if I can still incubate and yes the ones that layed the major clutches were a year last year on June 12 ( I keep up with all their birthdays )

Also I have 31 muscovies so I can't have such big clutches and that's why I have to make sure they all don't set, if I truly could I would be letting them all set

 

[txcarl1258]

Mine lay around 100 or do eggs per season. However I rarely allow mine to set. They are penned and I gather the eggs daily. I still get the occasional broody, but they are easier to break up since they don't have a clutch built. Mallard derived breeds outlay Muscovies hands down. Many of them can out lay chickens. If you want ducks for eggs muscovies are not the breed for you.

 

[poult]

 Just wanted you to know that they make both.

-Kathy

 

[poult]

My boys.Clark loves his feed bin he sleeps on it every night.

 

[casportpony]

No no they try to set all the time, I just won't let them right now, and trust me they all have worms, these worms infect the pond so that's why :/

See I took them to the vet on Tuesday and my vet told me all about the kind of worms they had, they had/have 3 kinds and I'm treatin them to get rid of them. And the type of medicine were using makes eggs pretty much bad to eat, but I'm going to call her back probably this coming up Tuesday and ask if I can still incubate and yes the ones that layed the major clutches were a year last year on June 12 ( I keep up with all their birthdays )

Also I have 31 muscovies so I can't have such big clutches and that's why I have to make sure they all don't set, if I truly could I would be letting them all set

What three worms and what are you treating with? Just curious...

-Kathy

 

[RyanGriffeth]

I'm up to 5 nests now and 5 broody girls. My smallest nest has 17 eggs largest has 25. I know 25 is a lot but they seem to be covered and the incubator is full. With 6 girls i'm already around 175 eggs so i'm sure i'll be over 50+ per girl by end of season.

 

[hookem horns]

I'm up to 5 nests now and 5 broody girls. My smallest nest has 17 eggs largest has 25. I know 25 is a lot but they seem to be covered and the incubator is full. With 6 girls i'm already around 175 eggs so i'm sure i'll be over 50+ per girl by end of season.

Yeah 25 eggs shouldn't be a problem at all... I've always let my ducks sit on what ever number of eggs they wanted and never had a problem.. ha ha your gonna have a ton of ducklings running around!!

 

[chickengr]

my drake turned to be a girl as I saw her laying an egg. another one is laying eggs at night so I don't know which one. I have just cracked 1 duck's egg and it seems to be fertilized. so, which one is a boy:

this one


or this one



the black head one is about 9 months old and the white one should be 1 - 1,5 month older.

this one is laying eggs: