Redness on the back of my drake's neck

[Duck Lover88]

My scovy drake has this same thing... he is in with 2 ducks tho....

 

[Skye'sDucks]

Seems like I do have some spying to do....

I know when I feed them in the morning they will peck and pick at each other to reach the bowls, I haven't seen anyone grab him yet but I'll have to watch. We're getting rid of most of our drakes either today or tomorrow so maybe the issue will go away when he only has one drake to contend with.

My scovy drake has this same thing... he is in with 2 ducks tho....

That's strange. Are the females aggressive to him maybe?

 

[Miss Lydia]

I have only seen this when I had more than one Muscovy drake that seems to be prime area for injury when fighting. Maybe he scraped his neck poking his head some where tight?

 

[Erkenstein]

Maybe he scraped his neck pocking his head some where tight?

That was my thought: has he been putting his head through a chainlink fence or something?

 

[Duck Lover88]

Seems like I do have some spying to do....

I know when I feed them in the morning they will peck and pick at each other to reach the bowls, I haven't seen anyone grab him yet but I'll have to watch. We're getting rid of most of our drakes either today or tomorrow so maybe the issue will go away when he only has one drake to contend with.



That's strange. Are the females aggressive to him maybe?

No way they are very submissive to him... I was thinking he was getting sunburned but idk

 

[Duck Lover88]

That was my thought: has he been putting his head through a chainlink fence or something?

Mine are in a chainlink cage but the females don't have it and they are the ones who stick there heads through the fence mostly....

 

[Psychofeatherlover]

I know this post is old, but our dominant Muscovy drake has had a red place in the same spot for a while. We thought maybe the other drake beat him up and was taking over. It's been there for months. This morning, I was able to get close enough to see it clearly. Fyi they hate me. Lol I'm supposed to bring food and water and immediately leave the restricted area and mind my own business. They have top secret Muscovy business to tend to. It is 100% caruncles back there. I was really surprised and didn't know they got them on the back of the neck. . Who knew lol when I googled it, somewhere or nother said only the non dominant drake will get them, but the only one with them on the back of his handsome little neck, is the head drake in charge. Hope this helps somebody, somewhere, sometime.

 

[Psychofeatherlover]

Good morning miss Lydia! I hope you and your flock are doing great this morning. It's chilly down here, I bet it's right cold up there.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Good afternoon @Psychofeatherlover it wasn't too bad 34 this morning.

My drake that I had for almost 13 yrs had caruncles on his neck I thought maybe from fighting with my gander when they were both in their prime. I don't know for sure though. Always wondered if when feathers get pulled out if caruncles showed up.