What color eggs do muscovy ducks lay?

[itsbob]

Can someone please give me advice RIGHT AWAY? I have 3 WH ducks
They are penned only. In less than an hr I plan to go see and possibly buy a breeding pr of Muscovies that will need to share the pen with my WH. I just read the Muscovies are aggressive. Is it safe to put the pair with my others. I do have a drake WH and 3 young ducks yet sexed. I will not take any chances with my WH's if anyone advises me against this. Thank you.
Lynn

I've had Music vies with Pekin and withy chickens, no issues.. they've never been Agressive e

 

[Lynn Manes]

I've had Music vies with Pekin and withy chickens, no issues.. they've never been Agressive e

Thanks for letting me know this. As it turned out I changed my mind and decided against buying the muscovies bc of what I had read about aggressiveness toward other ducks. I didn't want to chance problems with my Welch Harlequins since they do not free range and would have had to be penned together. I was a bit disappointed, as I know they are fantastic meat birds and I've tasted muscovy duck before and it's really delicious. Do you have enough space that yours free range and do they flock together with your other ducks or do each breed sort of stick to their own little groups. This is the first time I've had ducks. Do you think different breeds can be penned together?

 

[itsbob]

My chickens and ducks free range during the day, but the Muscovies and Chickens share the coop at night (Pekins won't climb into the coop). The Muscovies and Pekins share a swim pond (kiddie pool) and tend to end up in the same part of the yard, or sharing a shady spot.. I had 4 Muscovies, 8 Pekin (2 male 6 female) and 18 chickens.. never saw any agression from the Muscovies (no males) but loved watching them in their gossip circles..

 

[marymccreery]

I think our muscovies just started laying. We had them in a separate coop from our beilefelder chickens but over time they started cooping up with the chickens. Yesterday we found a greenish-gray egg in one of the nest boxes. However, it was about the same size as our chicken eggs. Beilefelder do lay jumbo size eggs, so I wasn't sure if this could be a duck egg or just another beilefelder, as their eggs usually run from a pale pinkish-brown to a medium brown with burgundy mottling. Today, I saw one of the ducks laying in a nest box, and sure enough there was a pale green egg there...again about the same size as my beilefelder eggs. I know when my beilefelders first started laying, the 1st eggs were only medium sized. Over time the chickens began laying larger & larger eggs. Could it be the same with the duck eggs? Are they the same size as my chicken eggs because this is the first eggs being laid, so over time they'll get larger? Or do beilefelders lay eggs that rival duck eggs in size?