Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[PetesMom]

Is getting all/mostly boys common then? Because I'm pretty sure I got 1 girl out of all 7 that my duck hatched.

I had 4 girls 3 boys with my last hatch....not sure about this one that just hatched, haven't checked them yet lol

Here's a picture of the newest babies There's 10 of them all together!

 

[Going Quackers]

Is getting all/mostly boys common then? Because I'm pretty sure I got 1 girl out of all 7 that my duck hatched.

No idea how common it is but out of 10 babies i got this year.. 9 are drakes, two different hatches but the eggs were all the same duck.. just raised by others(she's a bad mother)

 

[Going Quackers]

I had 4 girls 3 boys with my last hatch....not sure about this one that just hatched, haven't checked them yet lol

Here's a picture of the newest babies There's 10 of them all together!

Adorable! i wish i had those odds with my last hatch.

 

[Scovy Momma]

All such CUTE baby puffballs!

 

[Miss Lydia]

All such CUTE baby puffballs!

X2 Congrats..

 

[PetesMom]

I miscounted this morning

There is only 9 there, found one baby at the bottom of the pile tonight passed away

 

[PetesMom]

Momma duck, Ellie

 

[yoie]

My muscovies are very photogenic, so I had yet another photo shoot with them today.

River



Zoe

 

[Scovy Momma]

You're not kidding, yoie! Your scovies are very photogenic!

 

[Bleenie]

I think male/female offspring ratio has a lot to do with the Drake. I have had boys in the past that produced a lot of boys but my most recent breeding drake had almost all girls. I am no genetics guru but I do know it happens with cattle as well. we used to rarely get a heifer calf until we got a new bull, this year he produced 8 heifers & 1 bull calf.