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PatDreadful said:
Haha! Thats what I like to hear.
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You didn't hear it, you read it!
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LOL. So what kinds of critters do you have?
 
Hey everybody! I saw an ad on Craigslist to adopt two male Muscovy ducks. I wrote a very long detailed response to the ad, and this is the answer o received back. If I got these ducks, I would get them some females as well. What do you guys think? Is this an issue? :/. Do you all keep your ducks separate from the chickens?




Hi, Anne Marie! Thank you for your detailed and thoughtful reply. Certainly it would be no trouble for them to stay here until you move to your new place (congratulations!). I am sorry for my delayed reply. The thing I have been wondering about is how these ducks would be with your chickens. I have been warned that they must be kept separate in breeding season (early spring to fall) from chickens; otherwise, they will attempt to mate with the chickens and cause their death from internal injuries. I believe that it is because the breed of drake (Muscovy) is so big that their "attentions" can do such damage. I am not sure you want to have this issue to worry about for so many months of the year (they are too young this year to be showing mating behaviors; I believe they are at most three months of age - juveniles still). It would take a lot of work to have everybody separate, and I don't think that the presence of female Muscovies would protect the chickens from the male Muscovies' "interest". That's what I am thinking about...so, unless you have ideas of solutions, I think the adoption wouldn't work. But thank you for adopting rescue ducks rather than paying breeders!
 
AnneInTheBurbs said:
Hey everybody! I saw an ad on Craigslist to adopt two male Muscovy ducks. I wrote a very long detailed response to the ad, and this is the answer o received back. If I got these ducks, I would get them some females as well. What do you guys think? Is this an issue?
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. Do you all keep your ducks separate from the chickens?




Hi, Anne Marie! Thank you for your detailed and thoughtful reply. Certainly it would be no trouble for them to stay here until you move to your new place (congratulations!). I am sorry for my delayed reply. The thing I have been wondering about is how these ducks would be with your chickens. I have been warned that they must be kept separate in breeding season (early spring to fall) from chickens; otherwise, they will attempt to mate with the chickens and cause their death from internal injuries. I believe that it is because the breed of drake (Muscovy) is so big that their "attentions" can do such damage. I am not sure you want to have this issue to worry about for so many months of the year (they are too young this year to be showing mating behaviors; I believe they are at most three months of age - juveniles still). It would take a lot of work to have everybody separate, and I don't think that the presence of female Muscovies would protect the chickens from the male Muscovies' "interest". That's what I am thinking about...so, unless you have ideas of solutions, I think the adoption wouldn't work. But thank you for adopting rescue ducks rather than paying breeders!
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Serves me right for not speaking up. Oh well.
The death of chickens is due to the spiral of the duck anatomy vs the straight of a chicken.
The Pekin has not tried to mate the chickens because he had a female. Plus, the Pekin don't really fly or jump well. The Muscovy males have not shown interest in the females yet, and have only been seen jumping once. Onto a tote laying on its side. I don't think they would be a problem either.
The ducks, chickens and turkey are all happy together.
 
AnneInTheBurbs said:
Hey everybody! I saw an ad on Craigslist to adopt two male Muscovy ducks. I wrote a very long detailed response to the ad, and this is the answer o received back. If I got these ducks, I would get them some females as well. What do you guys think? Is this an issue?
hmm.png
. Do you all keep your ducks separate from the chickens?




Hi, Anne Marie! Thank you for your detailed and thoughtful reply. Certainly it would be no trouble for them to stay here until you move to your new place (congratulations!). I am sorry for my delayed reply. The thing I have been wondering about is how these ducks would be with your chickens. I have been warned that they must be kept separate in breeding season (early spring to fall) from chickens; otherwise, they will attempt to mate with the chickens and cause their death from internal injuries. I believe that it is because the breed of drake (Muscovy) is so big that their "attentions" can do such damage. I am not sure you want to have this issue to worry about for so many months of the year (they are too young this year to be showing mating behaviors; I believe they are at most three months of age - juveniles still). It would take a lot of work to have everybody separate, and I don't think that the presence of female Muscovies would protect the chickens from the male Muscovies' "interest". That's what I am thinking about...so, unless you have ideas of solutions, I think the adoption wouldn't work. But thank you for adopting rescue ducks rather than paying breeders!
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Unless the Muscovy male has enough females (5-6) he will most likely bother your chickens. It won't be just the hens that he'll pick on, he'll try to breed anything fowl. ..and yes if he doesn't kill the chickens he will damage their backs because of the claws that he possesses.

1 year old Chihuahua female. She loves to be out in the pasture with the goats and chickens. This wood pile just happens to be in the pasture and as she was playing around on it I snapped a couple photos.
 

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