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Ravynscroft said:
Fully black, including toenails... first one I have ever hatched... most of the keepers have clear nails with black quicks and the nails fill out black within a week or 2... this one is solid right from hatch... :D
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then that is fantastic!

Treat it like gold! You know predators like the special ones best. :confused:
 
my one footed Muscovy drakes. ..after an entire summer of trying...finally managed to fertilize 7 or so eggs (6 hatched)...

Remember the photo I posted last week of the mom with the 1 adopted duckling? The other mom has 5.

Anyway...yesterday and today, the ducklings are finally big enough that they are walking all over with their moms. so cute to watch! mom''s are being good. Rainy nasty in the 40s every night...and no ducklings lost.

The mom with the singleton nests outside of the duck coop under the eves (but in a fenced and mostly netted pen), and with this constant rain is still doing well. She sat on eggs for maybe twice as long as eggs take to hatch (her eggs weren't fertile), and maybe because of that is a doting mom. She watches the duckling zoom over the weeds trying to catch bugs. Our one and only sunny say (Tuesday?) she taught her duckling how to dig for worms in the puddles. The duckling found and fought a giant worm, finally won and ate it down, then grabbed a second big worm from mom! Not sure how it's tummy didn't pop.

My Muscovy are so good with the ducklings... mom with 5 ducklings isn't as attentive, and left her ducklings to sit up on a perch and look around... the 2 drakes sat over the ducklings and cared for them until mom returned.

I did last week also add in 2 new young males (that are both in possesion of all of the feet they should have), and everyone is happy together.

I shouldn't malign all of my chickens though... I killed all of the bad standard roos... there has been no bloodshed on the chicken front...even though I tossed some very young birds in there...and they no longer are allowed to go outside. Good birds.
 
Alaskan said:
my one footed Muscovy drakes. ..after an entire summer of trying...finally managed to fertilize 7 or so eggs (6 hatched)...

Remember the photo I posted last week of the mom with the 1 adopted duckling? The other mom has 5.

Anyway...yesterday and today, the ducklings are finally big enough that they are walking all over with their moms. so cute to watch! mom''s are being good. Rainy nasty in the 40s every night...and no ducklings lost.

The mom with the singleton nests outside of the duck coop under the eves (but in a fenced and mostly netted pen), and with this constant rain is still doing well. She sat on eggs for maybe twice as long as eggs take to hatch (her eggs weren't fertile), and maybe because of that is a doting mom. She watches the duckling zoom over the weeds trying to catch bugs. Our one and only sunny say (Tuesday?) she taught her duckling how to dig for worms in the puddles. The duckling found and fought a giant worm, finally won and ate it down, then grabbed a second big worm from mom! Not sure how it's tummy didn't pop.

My Muscovy are so good with the ducklings... mom with 5 ducklings isn't as attentive, and left her ducklings to sit up on a perch and look around... the 2 drakes sat over the ducklings and cared for them until mom returned.

I did last week also add in 2 new young males (that are both in possesion of all of the feet they should have), and everyone is happy together.

I shouldn't malign all of my chickens though... I killed all of the bad standard roos... there has been no bloodshed on the chicken front...even though I tossed some very young birds in there...and they no longer are allowed to go outside. Good birds.
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Aww!! I love good ducky mommas... and attentive drake daddys... most Call drakes aren't that considerate though...
 
Hey @Alaskan - what're the daylight hours right now?
Pre-kids, (whenever that was..can hardly remember!) we traveled to your state where a friend who was a propeller mechanic got us a free plane ride in the Denali Range. It was truly amazing, (and might have even been better, except the couple with whom we traveled were gagging and throwing up.. :sick fun.) It was summer then, so we all felt compelled to eat a second dinner around midnight!
 
Ravynscroft said:
Aww!! I love good ducky mommas... and attentive drake daddys... most Call drakes aren't that considerate though...
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yep...I think Muscovy are pretty unique in that regard.

I love the family dinamics. Very cool.

I also love how the drakes will beat the snot out of any predator. Remember how my baby drake fought off a bald eagle?

I lost both baby drake and papa drake last winter. :hit Still not sure why.

The 2 one legged drakes were supposed to be Christmas dinners.
 
orrpeople said:
Hey @Alaskan - what're the daylight hours right now?
Pre-kids, (whenever that was..can hardly remember!) we traveled to your state where a friend who was a propeller mechanic got us a free plane ride in the Denali Range. It was truly amazing, (and might have even been better, except the couple with whom we traveled were gagging and throwing up.. :sick fun.) It was summer then, so we all felt compelled to eat a second dinner around midnight!
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well...

right now

IT IS RAINING EVERY BLEEDING MINUTE SO WE ONLY GET 5 MINUTES OF FILTERED THROUGH THE CLOUDS SUNLIGHT PER DAY!!!

but really... achem... Google says we are getting 12 hours. ...but ... :barnie this rain!!!! :he :he :he :he
 

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