Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[macgro7]

What am I going to do with all boys lol ... I don't have enough girls...

Well... they taste really nice lol
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/barbary_duck

 

[holliewog]

that is not going to happen lol. I have enough trouble considering finding them homes. They are better pets than my dog is. I am lucky in that the people interested in them want them for bug control on farms.

 

[holliewog]

Well... they taste really nice lol
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/barbary_duck

I think they would love cherries and chocolate ganache for a treat.

 

[Wobbles]

So I was looking at my scovies this a.m and one has a distinctly longer rear end. What could that mean?

 

[Miss Lydia]

So I was looking at my scovies this a.m and one has a distinctly longer rear end. What could that mean?

Longer tail usually means drake .

 

[Wobbles]

Longer tail usually means drake .

Hmm very curious. Haha! Mine are all mysteries yet. This is really the first difference I have seen.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Hmm very curious. Haha! Mine are all mysteries yet. This is really the first difference I have seen.

Football shape shorter trail legs close together is usually female longer through out body legs farther apart underneath is usually drake. if you can get good pics of side views and front including legs maybe we can help.

 

[Wobbles]

When they get older I will have to come and have you guys help me decide who to pair up (the pen they are in now is the future breeder pen just to be sure I get pure babies).

Ok here are more photos. Probably still not the right shots but they do not care what I want

Let me know and I can try again tomorrow if needed.

These are on page 1548 if you need to see the bigger versions. I can try for more if these don't work haha they don't cooperate

 

[Miss Lydia]

Wobbles I hate to say it but looks like you have drakes. Okay now you go out and look at your ducks the girls will have their legs set closer together so when they walk they look like they may step on their own feet. the drakes legs are set father apart. all your pics are good but some weren't that easy to see the whole body but I'd say you have drakes mostly. Did you hatch these or buy them somewhere?

 

[jennifleur]

LOVE how this one is turning out

Learycow, what color is your duckling? It's lovely.
Leary maybe you or some of the others with Lavenders could help me out.
I have some questions about Buff and Buff cream muscovy. I have been searching for pictures and have only found a few that are labled with the color. On this thread I have seen some that look like they could be Buff or Buff cream,but often with a what color is this question attached. Does anyone have pictures of these colors? Even the genetics calculator is missing photos of a number of colors. Do you have any tips or tricks that you have picked up breeding lavenders that would help a newbie spot a pastel duck like a Buff cream? Other than breeding it to a black duck, which I gather would tell you for sure. I have searched those colors, but I appologise if I'm repeating questions that have already been answered. Some of the websites that have been helpful so far are the Ugly Duck one and Cottage Roses.