Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[casportpony]

Mine look like that, too.

-Kathy

 

[Buck Oakes]

Okay then i would go with Kathy on this, i'm good with colors but sometimes i can't distinguish between some, so i would go with kathy's answer

 

[casportpony]

I'll try to get some close-ups of mine.

-Kathy

 

[TherryChicken]

Oh yeah. I believe kathy. Very knowledgeable! I've just NEVER seen straight up chocolate feathers on a black duck.. they are as straight up chocolate as my chocolate scovies. But he is a black duck.

 

[TherryChicken]

See like close up in that other photo. You can see the chocolate coloring .

 

[Buck Oakes]

Oh yeah. I believe kathy. Very knowledgeable! I've just NEVER seen straight up chocolate feathers on a black duck.. they are as straight up chocolate as my chocolate scovies. But he is a black duck.

like i think posted before, chocolate carriers can show small signs of chocolate when they are young but either by when they are changing from juvenile to adult or there first molt, the chocolate vanishes)

 

[Buck Oakes]

oh yeah guys i have some eggs that have been incubating for about 2 weeks and some at 3 weeks, anyway i can't keep the babies, and I don't want to have them hatch here because then as usual mama buck will grow to attached and won't be able to let them go. And we especially can't have any babies right now due to the situation with the neighborhood board, but they aren't going to be able to do anything due to us being grandfathered ruled. But i don't think the grandfather rule would cover new ducks so i can't have babies for a while. So my mom has a friend at work who raises chickens and she has a ton of broody hens right now ( i know this because she asked my mom to ask me how to break them from broody) anyway i'm hoping she will take the eggs and let her chickens hatch them. She doesn't eat any of her animals so i think its a great decision. What do y'all think?

 

[TherryChicken]

like i think posted before, chocolate carriers can show small signs of chocolate when they are young but either by when they are changing from juvenile to adult or there first molt, the chocolate vanishes) 

Oh I thought when you said when they carry the gene it's carried by the black. I didn't know you meant it showed. Yeah that makes sense now

 

[TherryChicken]

oh yeah guys i have some eggs that have been incubating for about 2 weeks and some at 3 weeks, anyway i can't keep the babies, and I don't want to have them hatch here because then as usual mama buck will grow to attached and won't be able to let them go. And we especially can't have any babies right now due to the situation with the neighborhood board, but they aren't going to be able to do anything due to us being grandfathered ruled. But i don't think the grandfather rule would cover new ducks so i can't have babies for a while. So my mom has a friend at work who raises chickens and she has a ton of broody hens right now ( i know this because she asked my mom to ask me how to break them from broody) anyway i'm hoping she will take the eggs and let her chickens hatch them. She doesn't eat any of her animals so i think its a great decision. What do y'all think?

The only thing you need to worry about is the time difference and how long she's been broody for. If time has been too long momma might give up (hopefully not though). Hopefully it'll all go well

 

[mymilliefleur]

oh yeah guys i have some eggs that have been incubating for about 2 weeks and some at 3 weeks, anyway i can't keep the babies, and I don't want to have them hatch here because then as usual mama buck will grow to attached and won't be able to let them go. And we especially can't have any babies right now due to the situation with the neighborhood board, but they aren't going to be able to do anything due to us being grandfathered ruled. But i don't think the grandfather rule would cover new ducks so i can't have babies for a while. So my mom has a friend at work who raises chickens and she has a ton of broody hens right now ( i know this because she asked my mom to ask me how to break them from broody) anyway i'm hoping she will take the eggs and let her chickens hatch them. She doesn't eat any of her animals so i think its a great decision. What do y'all think?

Sounds like a good plan, I would go for it.