Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[casportpony]

Muscovy at 6 & 1/2 weeks old. The mother sits on the nest most of the time. @Nyla Can you tell what color he/she is, or is it too early?

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Beautiful!

 

[Ducklover77]

My baby Muscovies are growing so fast. Mama has done such a great job with this clutch

 

[Claires Poultry]

Y'all have very pretty Muscovies! Loving all the pics!

 

[AquaDuck]

I have this magpie-project going on, and got a few good candidates from the last batch of the year. They're all related, so next year I'll go magpie-hunting and hopefully find a good flock to buy eggs from.

My end-goal is to get light blue ones, and I got one imperfectly patterned drake with a lovely color.

And 2 black ones with nice patterning; white rim around the tail and black only on top. They're canizie, probably homozygotus, so they'll lose their black cap.
(never mind the yellow spots, it's food. They're such pigs when they eat. Haha!)

The drake, with the blue drake next to him.

The girl.

 

[Claires Poultry]

I have this magpie-project going on, and got a few good candidates from the last batch of the year. They're all related, so next year I'll go magpie-hunting and hopefully find a good flock to buy eggs from.

My end-goal is to get light blue ones, and I got one imperfectly patterned drake with a lovely color. (too dark to be silver, right?)
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And 2 black ones with great patterning; white rim around the tail and black only on top. They're canizie, probably homozygotus, so they'll lose their black cap.
(never mind the yellow spots, it's food. They're such pigs when they eat. Haha!)

The drake, with the blue drake next to him.
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The girl.
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Very pretty duckies! Sorry I can't answer your questions on the colors they are.
@learycow can

 

[Nyla]

I have successfully hatched Muscovy Ducklings in a Little Giant's incubator without a egg turner! I bought the eggs from a friend 3 hours away. The eggs survived the trip home and my old Little Giant Still Air Incubator did it's job perfectly!
First Batch was 15 eggs, 8 ducklings hatched but only 5 survived till the next day. 1 of the 5 ducklings some how got it's foot caught between the wall of the brooder and it's food bowl. It was stuck for maybe 15 minutes and died? Their was nothing wrong with the duckling. So I had 4 ducklings left and are alive today! 2 are Chocolates, 1 is a Chocolate Pied, and 1 is a Blue.
The second batch was also 15 eggs, 10 ducklings hatched but 1 died . The 9 that hatched are healthy and alive! Out of the 9 ducklings, I have 2 White, 2 Blue, 2 Chocolate, 1 Chocolate Pied, 1 Lilac Pied, 1 Black Pied. I'm excited to find out their genders. I plan to buy drakes from other farms to add new bloodlines!

Spoiler: Back Story

I moved last year in May and had to sell all my wonderful Muscovy's. It's been an entire year plus some months that I went without owning Muscovy's. I bought 12 Juvenile Muscovy's last month from various farms to start up with several Bloodlines. Sadly we had a fox attack which killed all 12 of my juveniles. So I had to start over again. It was a struggle emotionally and physically. I debated never getting Muscovy's again due to the poor deaths my juveniles went through. But I have since updated my new duck run with a roof and wired skirts around with electric fencing. My dogs now have access to outside 24/7 through doggie door.

 

[Claires Poultry]

I have successfully hatched Muscovy Ducklings in a Little Giant's incubator without a egg turner! I bought the eggs from a friend 3 hours away. The eggs survived the trip home and my old Little Giant Still Air Incubator did it's job perfectly!
First Batch was 15 eggs, 8 ducklings hatched but only 5 survived till the next day. 1 of the 5 ducklings some how got it's foot caught between the wall of the brooder and it's food bowl. It was stuck for maybe 15 minutes and died? Their was nothing wrong with the duckling. So I had 4 ducklings left and are alive today! 2 are Chocolates, 1 is a Chocolate Pied, and 1 is a Blue.
The second batch was also 15 eggs, 10 ducklings hatched but 1 died . The 9 that hatched are healthy and alive! Out of the 9 ducklings, I have 2 White, 2 Blue, 2 Chocolate, 1 Chocolate Pied, 1 Lilac Pied, 1 Black Pied. I'm excited to find out their genders. I plan to buy drakes from other farms to add new bloodlines!

Spoiler: Back Story

I moved last year in May and had to sell all my wonderful Muscovy's. It's been an entire year plus some months that I went without owning Muscovy's. I bought 12 Juvenile Muscovy's last month from various farms to start up with several Bloodlines. Sadly we had a fox attack which killed all 12 of my juveniles. So I had to start over again. It was a struggle emotionally and physically. I debated never getting Muscovy's again due to the poor deaths my juveniles went through. But I have since updated my new duck run with a roof and wired skirts around with electric fencing. My dogs now have access to outside 24/7 through doggie door.

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They are so adorable! Congrats on your new scovies!
Sorry to hear about your losses.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Congrats. @Nyla building your flock back with some awesome colors!! Precious ducklings

 

[Miss Lydia]

Joy!! She use to be blue Fawn that’s what I was told her color was

 

[Claires Poultry]

Joy!! She use to be blue Fawn that’s what I was told her color was View attachment 1895886

Beautiful! I bet she really did start out blue fawn and now she's just molted white.