My Muscovy cheeped!

[suburbanduckmom]

My 8 m.o. muscovy girl started cheeping/quacking. It almost sounds like the bark of a small dog. It is very strange. My husband said he noticed it 2 days ago.

Has anyone ever heard of this? Is she sick? Is she trying to quack like the Pekins?

 

[Bleenie]

Mine sometimes make strange noises too, it usually is the girls, the boys just hiss & huff. Muscovies will quack if they get scared, startled or hurt. but some are also just 'different'

 

[suburbanduckmom]

Ok. I can sleep now. It is a strange sound. Its like a chirping. I think she is going broody so maybe she is trying to tell me to stay away.

 

[ChickaChickaBoomBoom]

Interesting question. My first female just sort of trilled very softly. Then she moved out and so I got a second female. Every time I look at her, walk by, etc., she quacks. At first I thought maybe she was a crossbreed of some sort, but I guess some just quack.

Well, she's been laying eggs lately, and two days ago she finally started sitting on them. Within those last two days she went from "quack" to a sort of "chirp". So perhaps it is a broody thing?

-Dave

 

[Bleenie]

My broody girls do the high pitched "cheep", "peep" quacky thing too, it's just because they're in that 'mood' & warning everyone to stay away from them and their eggs

My broody girls often chase the other girls too for no reason.

I will TRY to get a video of one of mine making their noise.

Dave,
Do you have a picture of your girl? the usually don't quack all the time..

 

[Jess N Jeff]

Both my male and female scovies squack. Not a lot...just when they want treats from me or if I am bother my female while she is on her nest. They are both 9 months old. I know many say males only hiss...but mine squacks. He started doing it shortly after my female did. I know hes a male because I've seen his goods.

 

[ChickaChickaBoomBoom]

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Oddly enough, I don't have a picture of my new girl, and now that she's gone broody she's in a spot that I really can't easily get to. I'm 99% sure she's straight Muscovy, and 99.44% sure she's a girl . I should clarify, though, that it is actually more of a short "honk" that she does, not really a quack per se. That probably would have been a better description on my part.

-Dave