Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[Harborotter]

She is normally my sweetest hen but she has been chasing everybody around the last few days. So I am not sure if she would let me.

 

[SookyBubbles95]

My girls, Silver Peppa and Robyn

 

[Miss Lydia]

My girls, Silver Peppa and Robyn

Very pretty @SookyBubbles95 Welcome to BYC

 

[Harborotter]

So I have a nest with 5 eggs, I think and my other hens are being receptive to my two guys. So it has begun! Lol

Oh and my Black Pied Drake was getting his romance on with my Lavender hen, My Sebastopol decided to stand on top of them. That did not detour my guy until the gander reached down and bit his tidbits. Romance was over. Lol!!!!!!

He was fine, just startled a bit.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

My,hens nest.now that I have a drake.She has ten so far.

 

[Miss Lydia]

So I have a nest with 5 eggs, I think and my other hens are being receptive to my two guys. So it has begun! Lol

Oh and my Black Pied Drake was getting his romance on with my Lavender hen, My Sebastopol decided to stand on top of them. That did not detour my guy until the gander reached down and bit his tidbits. Romance was over. Lol!!!!!!

He was fine, just startled a bit.

My geese don't like any hankie pankie going on unless it's them doing it.

 

[Harborotter]

Yeah, both pair of my Sebs don't like anybody else getting frisky.

My geese don't like any hankie pankie going on unless it's them doing it.

 

[Ren2014]

R u going to get rid of him?

No, he's a keeper

I hope to get him some brown girls.

Sorry, just had to post some more pictures. Guess I'm just missing the ducklings.


Blossom and Buttercup, all grown up and just starting to lay eggs. It's strange how the feathers around the eyes turn white just before being replaced by the red mask. Has anyone else noticed that? You can see it more in Buttercup, she's in the rear.
They are smaller than my other females. I wonder if it's because they were from a 100% lavender pen. I've read that breeders will cross the lavenders back to a black duck with good body confirmation, and than breed back the splits to get a lavender with the right body type. Is it because they would just keep getting smaller in a lavender x lavender cross? Mini muscovy? Do lavenders fade? So far mine haven't.


Meg and Hunter

Earlier pic of Hunter (renamed by hubby from Coriander because it was too girly) and Meg. They have really faded in the sun. Hunter's head is almost a copper color now. His long wing feathers used to be dark blue and are now tan.


Willow was the top duckling with darkest face slightly above two barred ones.


Willow. I'm still not sure what color she is. She was a light tan atipico/dusky pied duckling. The down on her head was darker than anywhere else on her body, but you could tell she would have a white bib and neck. She feathered out right away with a white head. Now she is getting some darker feathers sprinkled over her neck and head. The individual feathers are all solid color with out shading. She isn't fading to tan, like my ducks with blue or brown. Does that mean she might be a pastel color? I think she is pied and not Canizie (sp). Normally with a dusky duckling you get an idea of what color pattern they will be as adults but in her case the dusky masked her white head coloring.

The ducklings are all gone.... Sage is already trying to go broody again. Maybe I'll let her hatch a mixed batch

from Meg, Willow, Blossom and Buttercup.

BEAUTIFUL! LOVE the colors.

She's back with the flock, no idea where she was or if there's a nest... Her face is darker than the other girls though, hmmmm. Beautiful pictures by the way.

SO glad this had a happy ending

Hey, my first hen finally started laying. She had 3 eggs in her nest as of yesterday. How many do they usually lay before they start sitting?

YAY!

My girls, Silver Peppa and Robyn

Sweet.

So I have a nest with 5 eggs, I think and my other hens are being receptive to my two guys. So it has begun! Lol

Oh and my Black Pied Drake was getting his romance on with my Lavender hen, My Sebastopol decided to stand on top of them. That did not detour my guy until the gander reached down and bit his tidbits. Romance was over. Lol!!!!!!

He was fine, just startled a bit.

WOO HOO!

My,hens nest.now that I have a drake.She has ten so far.

How exciting!

 

[Alex1010]

When my Muscovy lays her first egg should I let her make a clutch or should I take it and wait.

 

[RichardKutz]