Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[EdenCamp]

Better safe than

.
Some can look and be perfectly healthy themselves - but be carriers.

 

[EdenCamp]

Better safe than

.
Some can look and be perfectly healthy themselves - but be carriers.

 

[Duck Love07 AR]

Built a new pin today!
Can't really see it all but it is nice Quiver and LightWeight loved it but my muscovy's hated being moved around to the back of the yard. they spent all day trying to get back to their old spot.

 

[gaitngirl]

Since mama is chocolate and white and (most likely) daddy is all chocolate ~ hoping for a couple chocolate babies!!!

 

[Going Quackers]

Chocolate is a sex linked recessive gene. Females only have a single gene for it - so if she has it, it can show.
Males have a double gene for chocolate and both parts have to be the recessive chocolate to show it. If one is chocolate they carry it and can pass it to offspring. So a chocolate duck can have chocolate ducks and drakes that only carry it even if mates are not even carriers. Since ducks only need the one chocolate to fall into place they are far more common than chocolate drakes. To get a chocolate drake the duck has to be chocolate and her mate must at least carry it. With both a chocolate drake and duck pairing you pretty much get all chocolate offspring. I had a chocolate drake - now I have at least 2!

Just one. Had trouble with egg eating LGD's....Now I have to smash eggs in front of them for them to eat them. My girl got it first. She would fight and take a egg away from the boy and bring it to me. Yesterday I was feeding and collected a few eggs that I set on a low feed bin to go turn the faucet on or something. When I came back she was laying next to it and keeping everything away from those eggs! Good dog got a biscut for that.

Interesting! i admit i am awful at the colours, i try to just stay out of it my brain refuses to wrap itself around the complications of it all lol I am dying to know what i get from this last hatch, oddly enough one of the preemies is an almost white down with the dark maybe brown colour? never had one like, ever and i have loads of scovie babies.

I know some of the eggs are her's, she's a chocolate but after that not sure.. with so many ducks they sneak eggs in and frankly scovies are egg stealers..

That's to bad about the dog and the goose eggs! i know the feeling the one dog getting into this last nest is what kick started this premature hatching, he was just hoping for eggs.

That is your dog? nice a great pyrenees, a place my mother boarded her horse at raised some, they were adorable puppies so fluffy.

 

[Going Quackers]

I'm pretty sure they are pure. There is another muscovy duck that was laying in the nest, too. And there is a huge, handsome chocolate drake that comes over and keeps checking on her. He and the other duck will sit right outside the goat shed, like they are just waiting for her to get done in there. I'm moderately sure they are a trio. I'm going to swing by and check on her again tomorrow. I keep forgetting to take pics (and I'm not sure if it will upset her). She's much larger than my other 2 girls. Or maybe she just looks bigger because she's trying to spread herself over all those eggs!
There are still a few ducks hanging around the neighbors - and many are muscovies. I have a pen area set up for the duck and ducklings once they are hatched. I will quarantine them all from my flock. Even though they look healthy, who knows . . .

Well time will tell, nothing wrong with mixes either, seen some nice ones actually. Chocolates are fun, i have 4 mind you my one from last year which is ours, is whiting out like crazy as she's turned 1yo? it's very pretty a milky chocolate actually.

It's hard generally ducks don't carry much when kept in decent conditions but as said better safe than sorry! i generally don't add adults of anything here to lessen the risk and mostly just seem to magically get my own

The 'scovie fairy needs to get lost!

 

[Going Quackers]

Built a new pin today!
Can't really see it all but it is nice Quiver and LightWeight loved it but my muscovy's hated being moved around to the back of the yard. they spent all day trying to get back to their old spot.

Nice! ducks hate change so it'll probably settle in a few days when they get used to the change.

 

[ian4379]

Okay here is mama and half her clutch, i have the other half in the house(the preemies) she had them out free ranging for the first time!



What colour is the mother? is she a lighter chocolate or a chocolate mix? i wish we had chocolates here.

 

[Miss Lydia]

But Iain you have a couple colors we don't have I think? But chocolate is such a pretty color.

 

[ian4379]

we have bronzes here but its most likely the sepia gene. one of my experiments. sepia is rare in the US i believe but, i found a lady on a muscovy facebook group that has heaps of them! i think she was from Missouri. she had a pic of a beautiful bird that i suspect was sepia, rippled and mixed with something else, maybe lavender as she had some of them running around.

we are also meant to have Lavender here but i've been looking for 2 years and cant find any. people call blues, silvers and fumes lavender unfortunately. i'll just keep on scouring the net for them!