what does it mean when a muscovy hisses?

[showjumper_girl2002]

just curious for future reference when my babies grow up, when they hiss are they being aggressive or just talking?

 

[shelleyd2008]

When any duck or goose hisses it means "Get the #!$!#@$ out of my FACE!!"

 

[showjumper_girl2002]

for muscovy's too? cuz i read that they don't quack and that's the only noise they can make and is mistaken as aggression but isn't

 

[shelleyd2008]

My friend (who I'm talking to on the phone with right now) says they make a kind of chirping sound. Hissing is aggression.

 

[Miss Lydia]

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yep aggression, my drake does it to the other drake all the time and raises the feathers on top of his head at the same time.

 

[Going Quackers]

hmm i understood that was the male mucovy way of 'talking'

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

Muscovies make a hissing noise, it sounds like someone is trying to talk but has lost their voice...it tickles me...they come running and hissing and come to meet me when they see I have the food scoop... I don't think it's aggression at all. because they don't quack.

 

[Bleenie]

It's not agression, it's expression. It's how they communicate & the boys hiss more than the girls. BUT, hens will hiss if they are brooding and feel threatened by someone/something, but it is because they're scared, not just outright agression.

 

[FeatheredObsessions]

I think it depends on each persons version of hissing. Boys kinda make a hissing sound just talking but when they are mad it's a louder different hiss I think. I'd think it could be both depending on whos listening LOL

 

[showjumper_girl2002]

thanks everybody for your feedback