My heart is broken, Scovey Hen flew off yesterday

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oh no!! i'm soooo sorry. i know how much you wanted to keep her when she hatched. i hope she comes home
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No sign of Scooter yet :-( We've taken 2 more drives looking for her and my Husband even took the fourwheeler out into neighboring woods with no luck ( I think it's sunk in to him that this is breaking my heart). We even went to the river which is about 18 miles away. It rained all night long and is still coming down but the temps are very mild which I'm thankful for. We're into day 4 now and I'm so scared for her. We've spoken to all of our neighbors and friends with ponds and nothing. I can't tell you how much I appreciate all of your prayers, hugs and kind words.

loiueloui...2 weeks? That must have been pure torture for you!!! If Scooter stays gone for 2 weeks I'll be a basket case with a totally grey head of hair!

LovesDuckies...The Lady that let me keep Scooter after we hatched her out is keeping an eye on her pond to see if Scooter shows up there, she's still got a Drake and Hen on her pond.

Michelle
 
Is it possible that she went broody and is hiding out on her nest? you said she showed interest in your drake and that is a broody sign. Do not know how cold it is there in Ark. or if it is too early for broodiness but these darn ducks have a mind of their own.

I have a muscovy hen named Lily and she stays in turkey barn most of the nights. She would fly into duck pen to mate with muscovy males and fly back out. She went missing last summer and I hunted and called for her to no avail. One morning I looked out my upstairs office window and saw her out in the backyard! Watched her and saw her sly acting and mosey back under the porch of my cabin coop. I was rewarded later with 13 babies that she brought out to me!

Love these darn ducks... Hope yours will show up soon. No feathers is a GOOD sign!
 
When you go out to look for her, call to her and look UP. She may be in a tree for safety. She may have been frightened by something and is confused as to where she is. Good luck!
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I've checked all of the "houses" we have in the duck pen, checked under her favorite pine tree near the duck pen, all the dog's houses and even in an old rabbit hutch that my husband has out in the woods but nothing. I've been out calling until I almost have no voice left, even went out rattling the bag of peas with no luck. Her favorite roosting place is on top of the chicken yard fence, we built it with a wide rail on top and she just loves to roost up there in the daytime and do some sunning. I walked the whole pasture and most of our wooded areas (32 acres of woods) and no feathers, no Scooter. The last couple of days before she left she had been dancing around with her wings out slightly and raised just a wee bit above her body while singing and and wagging her tail like mad, she wasn't doing the head bobbing dance but she did seem to be trying to get the Drake's attention which makes me wonder if she's needing some loving. Our weather was horribly cold with snow (more than usual for us) but for the past week it's been raining like crazy and fairly mild temps. There were two days over a week ago that our temps were below zero with ice everywhere and I kept my ducks all in the pen on fresh dry hay with no playing in the pasture or pond and Scooter was mad at me for that but got over her anger once the ice thawed and I let them all out again. We have a tight circle of trees beside the pond with lots of undergrowth in it, I crawled in there yesterday to see if perhaps she was hiding on a nest but she wasn't. I had brought a small dog carrier out to the duck pen last week to put my molting Pekin into at night because the mallard girls were pulling her feathers out during the night...well in the daytime Scooter was going into that dog carrier and singing like crazy, not her normal singing and I got excited thinking hmmms he might be getting broody. Scooter is my first and only Muscovy so I don't know if this new way of behaving meant she was randy or getting broody...I just know that she was acting differently from her norm. She was still eating right, swimming ( of course she doesn't stay in the water as much as my other ducks do), she was still letting me pick her up and snuggle her, still came running to me when she saw me.

Does her behavior mean anything to you other Scovie owners?

Michelle
 
PlumTuckerd, I have Muscovies and have had them for about 7 years, and I think they get so caught up in the flying thing that before you know it their off flying and instead of turning around and coming back home they land and don't know where home is. I am only about 200' from the river down below us and they can't find their way back, because theres trees and brush between, and I can't clean it out because it's not our property, The boys can find their way back but they lived at the river first, but the girls are just lost when they go, So you have alerted everyone to look out for her and hopefully someone will see her or she'll take to the air again and find her way home... I don't think she meant to fly away, but they sure do love to fly. Do you have lakes and ponds where wild ducks hang out? Thats probably where she would be.
 

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