Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[keeperofthehearth]

It is sooo fun to watch them grow up and feather out! Very pretty!

 

[luvchicks8]

Mrs Prissy and G-Q at least I hope male and female. We got them yesterday.

 

[keeperofthehearth]

Chocolates!!!! Looks like a drake & duck to me.

 

[lovesduckies]

been told that alicia maybe a boy not a girl

 

[Bleenie]

how old is Alicia? she seems to have a lot of feathers already & usually the girls feather in faster than the boys.

 

[lovesduckies]

4 weeks, 5 on thursday.

i was told on an australian poultry forum that she is a he. the person told me they could tell by her beak, head, and tail i think.. i thought you were supposed to look at feet and that was the difference? and then when they are full grown drakes are bigger than ducks?

 

[Bleenie]

The boys have pretty long tails. it's hard to say from that picture but she does seem to have a lot of featehring for a boy of 4-5weeks old but maybe it's just the picture? mine are about the same age so you could TRY to do a little comparing with the ones in my pictures.

the girls are pretty obvious. Miss Buttons is a girl and so is the little one i posted on another thread "i love this duck".

 

[Bleenie]

Here actually, I will repost for you...
It's small differences but mostly a size thing. believe me, it would be MUCH easier if you had a sibling, lol. But with these 2 babies, Buttons is nearly fully feathered already while Mr. Perfect still has to grow in all of his back feathers. Perfect also has HUGE feet and a Long tail.

5wk old hen: "Buttons"

5wk old drake: "Mr. Perfect"

I just found this one too, Buttons next to a Drakelet of the same age:

 

[lovesduckies]

i know it would be sooo much easier!!! i was only able to keep one cuz i was told NO MORE DUCKS then my dad wanted mallards, so of course he won

LOL

hmm idk. i will go back and look when she is 5 weeks. she's starting to lose fuzzy head feathers.. idk it's hard for me to tell right now.. and knowing me i'm going to sit here and make myself think she's a girl cuz that's what i'm hoping for LOL but i hope you are right! LOL when duckie and quack quack were little, quackers was a bit bigger than duckie and feathered faster than him.. i thought she was maybe a few days older

 

[luvchicks8]

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Oh I really hope so I have had mixed opinions but I could only guess when choosing them but his reder face I hoped was male.