Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[Eagle Flight Farm]

They are gorgeous and the one standing looks to have legs close together which can mean female, but getting pics full body front and side would help.

We are going to be gone today, but I will try to get more pics with the correct views this afternoon/evening. I have heard them making the beautiful trilling sounds, but not this week. Do both males and females trill when young? These three are always with a pair of Welsh Harlequin females that are the same age and they do not look that much bigger than the Welshie girls. We love them no matter what their gender, but having females would surely help our male to female ratio.

I'll be back this evening with more and better pics. And, BTW, the young one that I was worried that had drooping wings and concerned it might be developing angel wing (the middle Muscovy in the above pic), both wings are now almost perfectly in place when standing. The right wing drooped more than the left, but now the left is in correct position and the right wing is very close to being there. I think muscle development to support the weight of the wing blood feathers was the issue.

 

[JanetMarie]

View attachment 1466163 Here is a pic of our Muscovy hatchlings today at 11 weeks and 3 days old. We still don’t know their gender, but they are all 3 the same size, so we think they are all the same gender ... whatever it is!

They look like females.

 

[kanina]

Chocolate drake over silver females will produce blue males (split to chocolate) and lilac females

We finally have babies.
I'm guessing the lighter are my lilac ducklets and the darker are blue drakelets? DH is going to help me try to corral and take pictures tomorrow.

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

We finally have babies.
I'm guessing the lighter are my lilac ducklets and the darker are blue drakelets? DH is going to help me try to corral and take pictures tomorrow.
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Now, I know who to contact if I need to add to my flock.
Yay for babies!
Congrats.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Now, I know who to contact if I need to add to my flock.
Yay for babies!
Congrats.

You wouldn't just make your own?

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

You wouldn't just make your own?

If I need to add to it - new genes.
It will be a long while before I consider that though.

 

[Miss Lydia]

@kanina your flock is gorgeous are you in SC?

 

[Miss Lydia]

@kanina your flock is gorgeous are you in SC?

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

@kanina your flock is gorgeous are you in SC?

Pretty sure she is from IN.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Throws me off when towns in different states have the same names.