r/BACKYARDDUCKS

These are our 6 week old Muscovy ducks; we’ve had them since they were a day or two old. I am completely obsessed with them!

I’m a first time duck mom so I’ve naturally been doing a lot of research, and at every stage of growth so far, I have yet to see photos of Muscovy ducklings that look like these two!

They have the front claws and single back claw which is standard to Muscovies but that seems to be the only similarity. AI has said they could be pied muscovies but I haven’t even seen photos of that type that look similar to these two.

Has anyone seen Muscovies like this at a similar age?

Hi! So, long story short our drake grew up with a chicken for 3 months, sadly enough the chicken passed away 2 weeks ago. Now the drake is alone, and we are undecided if it is a good idea to add new chickens (for eggs, my bf isn’t too keen on duck eggs + (i feel dumb saying this) isn’t a male + female always gonna give babies?)) or if we go for another drake, or 2 female ducks. So the choices are:

One other drake

Two female ducks

Two hens

I know drakes can rape chickens and that’s what scares me. We didn’t originally knew this but the hen & drake did very well together and the vet told us to keep an eye on it but give it time. Nothing ever went wrong.

Picture of my sweet babies.

New pictures help me out!!

Help Drake or hen? Any duck knowledge out there? These are Welsh harliquins. They are now 13 weeks. They do quack and one does honk. The drake curl was always there I know they can develop some wild coats. Same age.

I went to get eggs from a local and she had 2 that were fertile almost ready to hatch. I got the one she helped put a hole in moistened with coconut oil and into my incubator (I have reptiles that I incubate the eggs) maybe an hour later I had a little baby. So from candling it and all the rabbit holes I went down online the second one pipped the sac the morning before I picked them up. After 48 hrs I put a hole into the air pocket like instructed, however the sac was shrink wrapped like the other one so I moistened it with coconut oil as it was whit white. After I noticed all the veins not drained in the sac, it’s chirping and still chewing. I have a piece of paper towel over the hole and the incubator is staying at a consistent 75-80 humidity and 98 degrees. I’m worried and not sure what steps to take minus letting it be in the incubator. Any advice would be greatly appreciated… attached is a pic of baby beep beep, would be awesome if someone could identify the breed. It was a huge baby in a small egg I’m leaning towards Rouen the body color isn’t dark more like a grayish brown but it has fabulous eyeliner 😅

Feed costs are crazy right now. I would love to hear if any of you are making your own feed and if it saves any money/ is better for your birds. They free range on acreage with a lot of bugs but still eat a good amount depending on the season.

So this duck is a rescue and im pretty new to ducks so forgive me if this is the most normal thing ever but when we got him about a year ago his body was basically a pure tan/brown (like the little patch on his neck in the picture) but since hes molted his feathers are coming in this new kind of laced/scaled pattern? Is that a normal thing lmao 😭

We’ve been assuming hes a khaki campbell, no idea how old he is

What kind of duck do i have? Magpie?
Mallard magpie hybrid? I got it from a science teacher who hatched it in classroom.
Never saw one like this

apologies for the blurry photo but we saw this mama mallard with 2 dark babies, i thought they were just regular color variations that would shed as they age but now im wondering if its somehow a different breed of duck? i couldnt find anything online somehow about darker baby mallards. are they melanistic or something? lol