r/MuscovyDucks

So... Long story short... I'm fostering 5 muscovy ducklings 😂 I don't know how I always end up being a nanny of someone haha but I'm happy because they're the cutest thing ever 🥰 I don't have experience with muscovys, so any advice will be appreciated. There's one who seems a bit weaker but maybe it hatched the last one. We don't really know. I call that one Mini Pip

We didn't want ducklings this year. Oh well, looks like a change of plans.

My new neighborbood has 3 males muscovys who are very friendly and polite. I've named the white headed one with no head feathers "Quackalator" and he wags his tail whenever he knows he is getting peas.

Im just curious if anyone else's muscovy occasionally get a somewhat dried out looking face like the picture?

Occasionally, my oldest female Pinky will look like she needs a medicube face mask!

She has full access to a pond with lots of running water so its not like she should necessarily be dehydrated.

Hi!

Can anyone till me what the chirping noise means? The grey moscovy has started to make that noise sometimes. Thank you!

I posted about these ducks being found under my carport abandoned. Well, we’ve been raising them. And they’re growing…. But how much are they supposed to be eating?

They have a14ft run, with a small chicken coop, I use to put them up in at night (8-8:30pm) until morning. No food or water after dark . They come out between 7-10am .

They get let out, new food and water put down, pool filled, and rechecked every few hours since someone is always home.

They eat approximately 3-5 times a day. Kalmbachs duck & goose feed %18

I took away the organic duck crumbles, with high protein since I didn’t actually know the age..? Should I still give some high protein food mixed in. They’ve been on the Kalmbachs for about a week. Not mixed with anything. I offered mixed greens cut finely. Thawed frozen peas, and neither were a hit, they nibbled and tossed it aside. I tried putting it in the pool and moving it around. Not really interested.

What other greens and vegetables can I offer??

They do love store bought black slider fly larvae, crickets, mealworms, super worms , red belly minnows, and whatever bugs they find foraging on the ground.

How much is too much..? They always seem hungry.

The last picture in the blue tote was the first day that we found them.

I don’t want eggs or babies . I’m not looking to breed.

Just offer a safe place to live out there life .

What do I do when the time comes …… about the female to male ratio.

I think I have three males .

Could I just keep the males together in a trio and the two females together in a pair

With a divider in the cage , but still allow them access to see each other ??

I want to know ahead of time

ive been feeding, bonding w, and taking care of my university’s muscovy ducks at the local pond for the last nine months now. i basically go everyday and sit w them after classes (it helps me sm mentally. like i seriously cannot express how much theyve positively impacted my life). i am now on summer break and I am home 5 hours away, meaning i wont be able to see them. i love them all so much, and i just want to know if anyone has any insight into if they will remember me or feel sad that ive left (i dont want them to be sad). they all run up to me when they see me. i was gone before for a month for winter break, and they remembered me (and were very excited to see me). anyway, please let me know if they will remember me or if i will have to restart the bond (which im fine with doing, it would be a bit sad ofcourse)

This (we assume male) Muscovy duck (lovingly dubbed 'Chicken') has been in our local park for as long as I can remember. He's like the weird uncle of the mix of duck families around.

My boyfriend even thinks it's the same one he used to feed 10+ years ago as a child. Would that even be possible?

I'd be sad to find out he's basically at the end of his life now..

We just got new babies. I'm new to Muscovy ducks. I raised chickens and other ducks just not these guys before. This is to share these cuties but any advice or fun facts about the differences of raising Muscovy ducks vs other ducks appreciated.

Ps. the 5 brown ducks are Khaki Campbell babies and this is a temporary brooder as they were a bit of an impulsive buy. We do have a coop and everything and will be expanding to give the ducks their own home away from our chickens (mixed flock right now).

Watermelon rinds?

Zucchini skin!

Tomatoes skin?

And others?

I know they can’t have onion…but what else can they not have

Is there anything I should be doing first before giving to them to eat …besides wash.

Pic so I don’t get lost

What are they doing if you see anything else than I do? To me the white female is trying to dominate the black female and then the male all horned up is trying to catch the white one and breed her as she is not really willing to breed with him.

But the females seem to be jumping and biting each other and i dont quite understand why. Is it just hormones because of breeding season? Because they are okay with each other all year until the black one starts sitting on her eggs more.

The white female is quite old now and she probably doesnt want to breed anymore, wich seems as a problem since the male is young and new into the flock and he seems to made a pair only with the black female as they are always by each others side and the female usually goes alone or with the two of them and then she just forages on her own in the garden.

Should i let them establish it themselves or should i try to separate them when i see them going crazy like this?

hello, I am so so sorry to post this here I will take it down if I need to.

I love spending time with the muscovy ducks in my park, they're so beautiful and fun to watch and they've made me want to have some of my own. today however I found a sad surprise, one of them was dead in the lake. my fiancée said it looked like he choked on a fish or something I'm not sure what happened. I'm trying to identify which member of the flock it was. I have narrowed it down to these pictures, does it look like either of these? WARNING the picture of the dead one is the last 2, it is very upsetting and graphic. if all you're able to do is see if the first pictures are the same guy i thank you so very much.

thank you for your help and i will post some of my nicer pictures in a bit.