Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[Miss Lydia]

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leary, may i ask where your at in the US? I am looking for some Muscovy girls to grow up with my 3 mo. old muscovy drake.

 

[Bleenie]

I will try to get some pictures of my new ducklings.. there's about one of every color in there so I could help with people needing to ID chocolate/blue fawn/lilacs

 

[learycow]

I am in Southern Maine

 

[Miss Lydia]

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Oh well a little too far.

 

[ian4379]

here are my lonely 3 ducklings from my winter hatch, 3 ducklings from 25 eggs!

bronze girl

black boy

blue white boy

for those who want to sex ducklings you can see from these photo's that the two boys still have some baby feathers on there heads and a lot more around the side and back than the girl up top.

 

[Goat_Walker]

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Is it just me or do they look like they have stumpy tails for scovies in the photos?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Beautiful ian, how old are they in these pics?

 

[BarefootMom]

Funny heartwarming story-
Notice the ducklings are different ages in the 2 photos below? I had a broodie that I didn't know about (see thread here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=557822) Well something happened to her and 1 of her ducklings, leaving an orphan. I tried for 2 days to catch the little orphan, but it kept going under the hen house where I couldn't reach it. My other broody muscovy was sitting on 6 eggs in a dog house in the corner of the chicken yard. SHE adopted the duckling, but didn't abandon her nest (which I was afraid she would do and had the incubator ready to go). She sat for 2 more week while taking care of the adopted duckling. She had 3 eggs hatch, but only 1 survived. So now she had 1 older and 1 new duckling to take care of. The next week I go outside to her peeping in the doghouse...I look in there and there are 2 newly hatched ducklings!! So now Super Momma has 4 ducklings that are 3 different ages! What a great Momma!!

And I thought this was weird- this is my first muscovy to go through a molt- her feathers are completely changing colors- is that common? She was a light tan color and now she is turning chocolate?

 

[keeperofthehearth]

BarefootMom, Wow! That is sooo cool that she both adopted and also continued to incubate her nest. You def. want to keep her around! Pretty girl.

Looks like she's carring a barred gene. See those barrs along her sides? The color change could be because of the difference in her age fm one pic to the other. I read somewhere...

it's been about a yr now... that Scovy don't get their full adult feather coloring until they are one yr. old..... or was it two?

Someone on here may know more about that.

Goat _Walker, it's good to see you on BYC. Back fm bootcamp for a short visit?

 

[Miss Lydia]

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