Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[flowerchicks]

Are muscovy's friendly, compared to other breeds? I was looking at east indies, because I like the smaller ducks (calls are too loud), but I was told they aren't very friendly.

 

[Sean S.]

Mine are very friendly, and curious. Never had the people are axe murderers coming to get us stage, like most of our other breeds.

 

[Scovy Momma]

I love how beautiful all your Muscovies are!
Here's my indoor baby girl at 3 months. I'll have to take better pictures now that her long white wings have grown in.

& my girl is 4 months now!

wearing her diaper

I just love her personality! Wouldn't mind more. I am wondering what you call her coloring. Is it called "barred" with the pattern she has in her gray & black?

 

[AquaEyes]

Adorable!

She is Barred (she'll lose much of that barred pattern on her back as she matures), and she's also "true" pied. Often, you'll hear people refer to birds with random splotches of white as being "pied" but in reality, they are split to white. There is a separate, recessive pied gene (sometimes called magpie) which results in the clean, symmetrical pattern of white your bird displays when they have two copies of the gene.

Out of curiosity, do you happen to have any pics of her when she was a duckling, showing her down color and pattern?

 

[AquaEyes]

Beautiful!

But, Ian, how can you get Tortora (Homozygous Blue and Homozygous Bronze) from a Bronze (Homozygous Bronze) father and a Lavender (Homozygous Lavender) mother? Even if the mother is a Blue-Lavender or Silver-Lavender, in order for the offspring to get two copies of the Blue gene, they'd have to have a father with at least one copy of the Blue gene. Or are your Tortoras really Lavender-Bronze instead of Silver-Bronze, meaning your Bronze male is split to Lavender?

I'm confused.......

some pics i took today

possible tortora's(siver and bronze together) until now i havent been able to pick up any colour with the camera, the first lot of feathers were white with a brown line down the back of the neck, they are 16 weeks old now and moulting out, if you look carefully you can see the orange on the chest and silver on the back of the neck with some bleeping white bibbing

bronze dad

possible lav mum

equals one little lonely possible black barred baby

blue and sivler ducklings day 1

"pot"babies blue barred and fume barred

some 3 week olds

 

[michaelinnc84]

I would love to get some white scovies.. they are so pretty. What color are mine considered?

 

[AquaEyes]

First looks to be White-Headed Black Pied (aka White-Headed Black Magpie) Duck. Second looks to be White-Headed Black split to White, probably also split to Pied, Drake.

 

[michaelinnc84]

Thanks, I always wondered what the proper colors for them were called.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

"Old Dan" has won Best of Variety and Best of Breed at Numerous shows. Took home a Grand Champion Waterfowl once. We have hatching eggs available. PM for info.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

Thanks, I always wondered what the proper colors for them were called.

The Standard of Perfection (SOP) only recognizes the following colors in the Muscovy:

Muscovy Black 1904 Heavy Duck
Muscovy Blue 1950 Heavy Duck
Muscovy Chocolate 1982 Heavy Duck
Muscovy White 1874 Heavy Duck
http://www.amerpoultryassn.com/APA_Recognized_Breeds_6_2010.pdf

Would be nice to see more colors admitted in the SOP. Any non-admitted variety can still be shown, just as "Any Other Variety". So please enter your Muscovy Ducks in the county fair, district fair, state fair and any nearby poultry shows. A Black Muscovy Drake won Super Grand Champion at Crossroads, competing with 10, 275 other poultry. This included chickens, bantams, ducks, geese, turkeys and guineas!