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You have two lovely muscovy. The one in the foreground might be male -- it has broad tail. The one behind is a barred. It might be female as it seems to have a pointed tail. But you will know within weeks as drakes carry on growing and end up about 14lbs. Females stop growing at about 6 weeks...

The ratio is a guideline but I really do not think you can add 3-4 females with 2 drakes. Ducks that have been raised together from ducklings often do Ok with 1 drake to 2 females ratio. But I don't think you can add only 4 females to 2 drakes. When you do get your females, keep them see but no...

Oh dear, she is in trouble. Can you bring her into the house and care for her until she has recovered? Looking after her in a deep plastic tote or a dog crate is good. She will need puppy pads and a bowl of food and a tub of water in with her. What is her maintenance feed? Duck pellets? If she...

They are lovely!

Oh poor boy. Looks like he caught his bill in a strimmer as the pieces are splayed. Good advice from @Chicken_tiger_catt Your taping the bill will not harm and might help. I rescue and rehab ducks and had a pekin with a deformed bill -- he had lost the end of his top bill in an attack by a...

I find its best to put the High Level liquid Vit B complex on mealworms and then watch to make sure the ducks eats the dose. As @SilverBirds wrote, it takes time for the Vit B to work, once a duck has symptoms. I would expect an improvement in a week, but continue with the Vit B complex for a...

Yes its normal for a wound to scab over as it is healing. once you cleaned up the wound and all the gunk around it, let a new scab form and just swab away any secretions that appear but let the scab be

I don't know what is his pattern. He's a handsome boy, whatever his pattern! I only have drakes and so don't breed ducks and have no experience of ducky genetics Maybe @Canadian Wind can help?

I do not know the answer to why she is aggressive now and not in prior seasons. Eating dirt from the firepit might indicate a micro-nutritional deficiency. [In humans it would be indicative of iron deficiency.] You might consider supplementing with Rooster Booster Poultry Cell in her drinking...

He looks lavender to me -- he isn't white. White muscovy are true white like pekins [I have a white muscovy drake with blue eyes. He has a love hate relationship with my white pekin drake. Its sometimes difficult to see who is chasing whom in the rush of white feather!]

Ducks bang their beaks all over the place whether in a run with bars that can inflict bumps or foraging more widely. Then, particularly with drakes, there are ducky squabbles that can lead to grazes. My flock are all boys and I have a particularly pugnacious pekin drake, Louie,: too pugnacious...

I just realized that I wrote how much salt but not how much boiled and cooled water. 1tspn salt dissolved in 1 cup boiled and cooled water I have amended my original comment to include the cup of water

My boys and my son's 4 females and one drake, are now in the habit of hanging around the garden side gate when it gets close to bed time. For my drakes, that also means that they are hanging round near their coop. Except for one, that is, who remains sitting behind the shed on the compost...

I think that eye will rapidly get better if you bathe it in salt water. Dissolve 1teaspn salt in 1 cup of boiled and cooled water. Use the solution luke warm or room temperature. I wrap my duck in a towel and then hold him against my body with one arm leaving the and free to hold the...

That's sad. Nature isn't always kind, but you still have 4 little fluffies. Think about them and don't dwell on the 5th

Coconut oil to promote wind healing--I have no experience or prior knowledge of that. Very interesting. I had not thought of ants as a problem: I always bring needy ducks (and cockerels) into my house. I am fortunate in having 2 bathrooms and generally use my bathtub as a sickbay. I agree with...

No just apply soft/runny honey into the hole and round the edge like a paste. It won't cure a tumor but may well help the infection to heal. Please use Bayatril at the same time to clobber the infection. You can flush out the honey and any debris that comes with it after 24 hours and reapply...

Yes, Baytril I still think that it's worth a shot with a honey poultice to treat the wound locally while treating infection systemically with Baytril

Injections only in cattle! Durvet high level Vit B complex is well absorbed orally by ducks. 1 ml soaked into a few meal worms every day until symptoms are resolved plus 2 extra weeks.

I can see what seems to be a small defect in the corner of the bill. I would judiciously "wait and see" but treating it as if it's an infection as already advised won't do any harm. They are both little cuties!