My First Chocolate Male Muscovy!

[learycow]

Five years ago I started off with black/white pieds and from them I got my first chocolates, which were all female. Then this year I noticed some of the chocolates ducklings were male, so I'm not sure the sex link "thing" works the same way as it does in chickens. Maybe someone could explain it to me?

-Kathy

Kathy, the same thing happened to me!
I started out with 3 black pied muscovy, 1 drake and 2 hens.
From them I hatched lavenders, silvers, whites with caps (black or chocolate), chocolate, and blacks.
Every single chocolate and chocolate capped ended up being females. I didn't get a single male from them that was a chocolate and they hatched about 120 ducklings for me over the few years I had them (about 40-45 were chocolates)

 

[jdywntr]

Congrats. I also just realized that I ended up with a chocolate barred drakelet. I started with a black barred drake, 3 chocolate barred hens and a black barred hen. After a season, I got 2 black barred drakes that would throw chocolate. This spring, they hatched out about 60 ducklings. Of those I think 8 were chocolate. 1 turned out to be male. I am so excited. I now want to add some other blood (hopefully French Whites) into my flock.

 

[JekkaLynn]

Are these muscoveys chocolate? The pics are like a month old but their colors are the same

 

[JekkaLynn]

The solid brown drake in those pictures got first place in the muscovey drake class at our local poultry show. The spotted duck didn't place.