Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[Daphne_loves_mealworms]

Here are the only two we have at the moment.

Question:
Is there supposed to be this much difference in size between male and female? I feel that our female, Confetti is just so danty and small. Confetti is in the foreground and Cupcake is in the background. They are the same age. They are just beginning to get the growth on their bills.View attachment 1507982

They are lovely! Your picture looks like a great example of “drake or duck?” for people, like me, who have a hard time seeing the difference at this age!

 

[SkyeT]

Thank you! We may be able to trade our two female Pekin ducks for 2 Muscovy females on Monday! I am so excited. The foghorns will be gone and the singers will be in song! I don't dislike our Pekin, but I can't have them in our neighborhood as loud as they are.

 

[Miss Lydia]

That's one of the nice qualities about Muscovy's they are quiet. That is just one though there are many more.

 

[hmarg06]

Ok experts, I need color help! I think a lot of my originals were this color when they were young, but now look mostly white. I don't have any that are actually white, but they fade out to look mostly white. Is this what silver looks like before their first molt?

I have a couple more that I circled in the next picture, are they the same color? they look slightly different in person, but are maybe just a varient of the same color? The black circle seems to have a blue tint to the tail, and the red circle doesn't.

You can see one of the hens here, and how she looks white, I think they also somewhat have silky feathers? They always look rough and break off and drape over the side like that. The majority of mine look like that, but not as ducklings?

Is this one in the middle a blue fawn (lilac?) It's a light blue with quite a bit of brown tones in the chest.

Sorry these were taken around sunset so everything is slightly warmer/oranger than in real life. I can take some more if it helps. The lady I got all my adults from thought that buff was an option for some of them, but all the ones that looked like the lower duckling in this last picture fade to white. Mt adults are 1 blue drake, 2 what I think are silver drake, one chocolate hen, the weird colored ones that look white now and like these as ducklings, and some what I think are blue fawn (lilac?), but have been told are just another varient of blue, but I have my suspicions on the accuracy of that.

There are some gorgeous ducks in this thread, and makes me want many more colors!

 

[Miss Lydia]

@learycow is great with colors. Beautiful Scovy's

 

[JanetMarie]

Three 11 weeks olds. The male has the lightest shading on head and neck, and the thinest line of coloring on the very edge of his wings.

Some of the 6 week olds:

Some of the adults hanging out too.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Gorgeous Muscovy's.

 

[Daphne_loves_mealworms]

Three 11 weeks olds. The male has the lightest shading on head and neck, and the thinest line of coloring on the very edge of his wings.
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Some of the 6 week olds:
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Some of the adults hanging out too.
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Gorgeous! Your 11 week olds look huge in comparison with my 14 week(ish) olds. Your drake has impressive caruncles already!

 

[member 373180]

I'm down to my final four keepers. There were three girls out of the original 14, so the only decision was which of the drakes to keep.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Very pretty!