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A lot of people seem to think that rinsing an egg with plain water will wash the protective bloom/cuticle off. I've always thought so too, but then a post on Instagram questioning this caught my attention and I decided to research it. Now I'm not so sure. There are various studies researching...

Please help...Kiwi seems to be sick. Kiwi is a 3-year-old female Muscovy duck. On either Friday or Saturday, I noticed that she seemed to be favoring her right leg and laying down a lot. I didn't see anything wrong with the leg, so I thought it was nothing unusual. Every once in a while, one of...

Someone emailed me with a picture of their Muscovy duck with five webbed toes. :eek: I told them it was probably an unusual deformity. No bird naturally has feet like this. Has anyone ever seen anything like this before? If not, I just thought I'd share these pics (with permission) in case...

I'm incubating eight goose eggs (in a Hova-Bator 1602N), and I read that the temperature is supposed to be 99.5 degrees. However, the incubator temperature seems to fluctuate an awful lot, from 96 to 102. I have two thermometers, one of which I know is pretty accurate. This is probably...

Daphne's a 3-year-old female Muscovy duck. Her voice has sounded normal until about a week ago. It sounds like a hoarse whisper now. I didn't do anything about it, because she was eating, drinking, talking (apparently unaware that she sounded more like an owl than a duck), and everything she...

I just brought home my first geese. The seller couldn't tell me the breed, but she said all the piebald ones were males and all the grey ones were females. So I thought they might be one of the autosexing breeds. Then I got home and looked at some pictures, and all the autosexing breeds have...

Is it possible? I'm thinking about buying a few Chinese geese. They will be living with our Muscovy ducks. Will there be any problems? Also, how much does a goose's diet differ from a duck's?

If cared for well, about how long will a Muscovy lay and how long will its entire lifespan be? I've searched and I can't find even an estimate. I have 6-year-old girls that are still prolific layers. I'm quite pleased. I've heard most chickens won't lay for longer than three years.

Is there anything I could spread around a broody duck's nest to repel fire ants while the ducklings hatch? We have had problems with fire ants on hatch day for all our previous three hatches, and last year a duckling died from them. Now our fourth batch is hatching. Yesterday when I checked on...

Is there anything I could spread around a broody duck's nest to repel fire ants while the ducklings hatch? We have had problems with fire ants on hatch day for all our previous three hatches, and last year a duckling died from them. Now our fourth batch is hatching. Yesterday when I checked on...

I really, really would rather have just one drake. It would make things so much easier for us. However, can one drake keep 18 females with a reasonable fertility rate, or will the rates be really low? We have Muscovies. Thanks.

After three years of raising ducks, I think I've run into my first health problem. First, one of my young females, Skylar, seems to be developing her wings improperly. She's definitely a female, but her wings are growing strangely slowly. The quills seem rather greasy. I can't describe the way...

I have a website about raising ducks (www.raising-ducks.com). It's relatively new. I just made a breed guide. I wrote the information, and I have some pictures, but I need more. Does anyone have some nice pictures I can use? I can give you attribution or link to BYC or whatever. This is the...

I love taking videos and pictures of my Muscovy ducks. Here are some videos of my flock...I hope they will bring a smile to your face (or even a laugh), and possibly even educate you. (Maybe my Assisting Duckling Hatch will be helpful to someone?) The opening and closing scenes are on ALL my...

Hi, I'm a new user on BYC, but I've loved this site for a few months now. I don't have chickens yet but I'm hoping to get some soon. I have been raising Muscovy ducks for three years. Currently, I have 16 ducks, out of which seven are juveniles. They are free-range in our backyard during the...