When Do Male Musovies Become Sexually Mature??

[Hayleigh Barnes]

Cannot be the drake who produced all of the young this year was less than 1yo lol Heck my last hatch the drakelets were um, testing out the procedure at 3mths lol

Yeah thats exactly why im.asking becausw stuart has been.practicing an.awful lot and.hes.only 3.5.months haha

 

[animalz11]

Hi, just as other members have said, you open one of the eggs and look for the "bullseye" or you could let her sit and candle them after a week and look for veins...

My hens started laying eggs at 7 months old and males do the same... but I'd look for the 'bullseye' if it were me.

 

[animalz11]

Yeah thats exactly why im.asking becausw stuart has been.practicing an.awful lot and.hes.only 3.5.months haha

When my Pekin first started mounting the hens, I though there was no chance of any egg they gave to be infertile, and he was the same as as your drake, 3 and a bit months... but when the girls started laying the first ones wern't fertile (they were the very first eggs so it's unlikely that theywould be) but after the 5th fertile egg the 6th egg was completely clear. When he first started, he would grab their necks and just sit on them, his tail wouldn't meet hers he would just sit there, not quiet got the hang of it yet... so that's all it would be, practising until he knows what to do.

 

[Hayleigh Barnes]

When my Pekin first started mounting the hens, I though there was no chance of any egg they gave to be infertile, and he was the same as as your drake, 3 and a bit months... but when the girls started laying the first ones wern't fertile (they were the very first eggs so it's unlikely that theywould be) but after the 5th fertile egg the 6th egg was completely clear. When he first started, he would grab their necks and just sit on them, his tail wouldn't meet hers he would just sit there, not quiet got the hang of it yet... so that's all it would be, practising until he knows what to do.

Haha yeah ive been watching him and he used.to grab her neck then rotate around and line his butt uo with her head. I.dunno... Now hes getting the hang of it yay. Ill defs start cracking her eggs though. Cant wait for ducklings!

 

[Hayleigh Barnes]

When my Pekin first started mounting the hens, I though there was no chance of any egg they gave to be infertile, and he was the same as as your drake, 3 and a bit months... but when the girls started laying the first ones wern't fertile (they were the very first eggs so it's unlikely that theywould be) but after the 5th fertile egg the 6th egg was completely clear. When he first started, he would grab their necks and just sit on them, his tail wouldn't meet hers he would just sit there, not quiet got the hang of it yet... so that's all it would be, practising until he knows what to do.

Haha yeah ive been watching him and he used.to grab her neck then rotate around and line his butt uo with her head. I.dunno... Now hes getting the hang of it yay. Ill defs start cracking her eggs though. Cant wait for ducklings!

 

[animalz11]

Haha yeah ive been watching him and he used.to grab her neck then rotate around and line his butt uo with her head. I.dunno... Now hes getting the hang of it yay. Ill defs start cracking her eggs though. Cant wait for ducklings!

Duckling would be so rewarding!
The first egg I found out was fertile had a crack in it, but because it was the first fertile egg, I wasn't going to give up on it, I had a look for the crack and sealed it with candle wax as I had read on another post and now it is kicking and moving inside it's shell, due in 3 weeks!
Good luck

 

[roxy87]

Hi was your duck mature around that age? Or did he produce later on?