Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[RichardKutz]

My ducks just found 3 snakes in less than 5 minutes. Looks like it's about time to break out the snake killin shovel.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

My other pied hen I got hatched five baby's.yesterday

 

[muscovymomma]

Hi- I have 10 2 week old babies. They are all adorable and most everyone now has a prickly tummy, a few tail feathers, and bald shoulders. I ordered a straight run (just using them for company so I didn't care too much male or female). However, I have 2 that are significantly smaller than the other 8. This is my first time raising ducks, but everything I have read says that you really can not tell drakes from ducks till about 4-6 weeks. I am worried though that these are my only 2 ducks. I dont want the males to kill them trying to mate them all the time.

Any advice or tips?

 

[jennifleur]

Macgro7,

They look Lavender and black to me. I'm no expert.

 

[hamiltonducky]

hamilton has wing feathers!

 

[macgro7]

Macgro7,

They look Lavender and black to me. I'm no expert.

their father is definitely blue with black head. Mother I thought she's lavender but now I think she's a slightly paler blue but too dark to be a lavender. I can't wait for the babies to grow. One has a brownish red tinge to its head feathers, I wonder what it's gonna look like when fully feathered.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

hamilton has wing feathers!

that's a muscovy for shorw

 

[Ren2014]

My ducks just found 3 snakes in less than 5 minutes. Looks like it's about time to break out the snake killin shovel.

what kind of snakes?

My other pied hen I got hatched five baby's.yesterday

Congrats!

hamilton has wing feathers!

He's getting to be a big boy.

 

[RichardKutz]

what kind of snakes?

Congrats!

He's getting to be a big boy.

Just some young king snakes. The ducks gobbled them up.

 

[MandyJ]

Just some young king snakes. The ducks gobbled them up.