Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Kev]

Oh no, you will create scratching, egg singing, crowing muscovies...

 

[draye]

I'm having NN Aloha eggs shipped to me on Monday. Been waiting for them for a while. Ever since Somer told me she'd crossed them together. I'll be working on Calico Naked Necks.

 

[Kev]

Awesome, good luck with the hatch and looking forward to pics of course. They will be beautiful birds for sure.

 

[draye]

Awesome, good luck with the hatch and looking forward to pics of course. They will be beautiful birds for sure.

Thanks.

 

[Phage]

I heard that muscovies can kill chicken chicks, but maybe not when they are raised together.

 

[Kassaundra]

I know of several in my area raising them together w/o problems. Maybe it depends on how they are raised (together or separate)

 

[draye]

Here's a picture of an up and coming cockerel. He is by my now deceased Salmon Naked a neck rooster. Best I can tell he would be out of a Golden Cuckoo crossbred hen that I used to own.

Not the best shot, but the little bugger was very impatient. Didn't want to sit still for his photo shoot.

A shot trying to show a the colors he has in him. I don't know if you can really see them all or not.

 

[Kev]

I know of several in my area raising them together w/o problems. Maybe it depends on how they are raised (together or separate)

Didn't have too much problems.. the main thing they are SO messy, constantly fouling up all sources of water and squirting everywhere.

Occasionally the drakes will become aggressive towards particular birds, either each other or to other species. Some lines throw drakes that become very aggressive towards people. Those get pretty nasty, using their semi-arboreal natural state to climb up people to bite and flog you around the head. Their claws are freakishly sharp and can scratch you up pretty good.

The drakes have been known to go after babies though.. there is a video of a drake struggling to swallow what looks like a duckling older than a few days.

Most of the setting ducks would kill babies or even pipping eggs from other species. Actively, aggressively clearly not by accident either. It just happened I did not set other species of waterfowl under them so I don't know how they would be with babies of other waterfowl species.. it was chicken, pheasant, peafowl they killed.

Seems bad but aside from the occasional problem or problem bird, they are wonderful ducks. If I ever got ducks again, muscovies would be the one.

As for nature/nuture, from what I've seen they are all basically the same no matter how they were raised, the major exception being the lines that throw people-attackers.

 

[Kassaundra]

Didn't have too much problems.. the main thing they are SO messy, constantly fouling up all sources of water and squirting everywhere.

Occasionally the drakes will become aggressive towards particular birds, either each other or to other species. Some lines throw drakes that become very aggressive towards people. Those get pretty nasty, using their semi-arboreal natural state to climb up people to bite and flog you around the head. Their claws are freakishly sharp and can scratch you up pretty good.

The drakes have been known to go after babies though.. there is a video of a drake struggling to swallow what looks like a duckling older than a few days.

Most of the setting ducks would kill babies or even pipping eggs from other species. Actively, aggressively clearly not by accident either. It just happened I did not set other species of waterfowl under them so I don't know how they would be with babies of other waterfowl species.. it was chicken, pheasant, peafowl they killed.

Seems bad but aside from the occasional problem or problem bird, they are wonderful ducks. If I ever got ducks again, muscovies would be the one.

As for nature/nuture, from what I've seen they are all basically the same no matter how they were raised, the major exception being the lines that throw people-attackers.

All people aggression is dealt with swiftly and w/ finality in my yard. Same w/ overly aggressive nature towards other birds. I wasn't going to have the muskovie raise other fowl, I am going to let a chicken raise the first batch of muskovie.

 

[Kev]

All people aggression is dealt with swiftly and w/ finality in my yard. Same w/ overly aggressive nature towards other birds. I wasn't going to have the muskovie raise other fowl, I am going to let a chicken raise the first batch of muskovie.

Same here. Just relaying my experiences, they were learned the hard way.. was pretty upsetting to see a bunch of dead peachicks under a muscovy hen after finally getting some to hatching day after months of total peaegg failure in the incubator.


They are wonderful mothers to their own babies though.. there's a video of one with something like 22 babies?!

Found it: