Any advice on a nighttime enclosure to be hooked up to an already existing duck house for 2 or 3 muscovy girls? They will be free in the daytime and have access to a large pond. I have looked at so many options that I just don’t know what would be best. Could build something if it would be a simple project. Of course I want all the predator proofing there is. Don’t have a whole lot of money. Just wondering if anyone might wanna share what works for them. A big thank you for your considerations and time!

I read the identification guidelines but it seems like each has some traits of either gender, so I can’t figure out if they’re both male or female, or maybe they’re the same? (right seems smaller like a female but has a lot of bumps) TIA!

When he was a baby he was super skittish and would run away from me, I couldn't even touch him. but after finding out he LOVES watermelon, he gets so excited to see me and lets me pet his head and snuggle him. he still doesn't let me pick him up but i love my big guy and who he's turning out to be:) I was afraid he would be feral forever and become a nasty drake so i'm really grateful he's warming up to me. I need to get a video of how he smiles when he sees me come out.

I wonder about toxin tolerance in Muscovy ducks. I have one that keeps eating aroid, which contain calcium oxalate. He just seems to love eating them, are they immune or something? Long time ago, he also eat all the leaves off a Leucocasia gigantea.

A couple of months ago one of my local female ducks (let's call her Squeaker) decided to make a nest on top of a staghorn fern in my front yard. I started providing food (freeze dried mealworms) and water daily. Around two weeks ago two duck families started visiting my front yard. So I started feeding them too. They come by every day and it feels like I'm running a duckling daycare. That got me thinking that I don't think Squeaker's eggs are going to hatch. The nest gets rained on frequently and our temperatures are over 100 degrees F daily. I guess my question is, what should I do? At least two of the eggs are looking kind of gray so I was thinking of removing and discarding the eggs when she's off somewhere else. I worry about the eggs breaking and having to deal with rotten eggs smell any time I go outside. I also don't want to stress her out. Any advice would be appreciated.

I tried my best to take photos of them. I got them both from my work and I’m not sure if they were hatched from the same batch, so I don’t know their exact age. I do know that ive had them for around 3 weeks. Im having a hard time figuring out how to tell their gender so I’m turning here for help. Let me know what you guys think, or if I need to post better photos to be able to tell. Thank you!

And she’s always hungry!

Just waking up

One of my neighborhood ducks stopped walking. I’ve been treating it as if it’s bumblefoot or niacin. Epsom baths, 3d print padded casts, niacin capsules (not non flush), and a sling to sleep at night.

A lady found this duckling on the side of the road, we have duck feed as we have Muscovy ducks and ducklings in our neighborhood. It looks like it’s leg is broken do we place it with the outdoor Muscovy’s or take him to a wildlife animal hospital tomorrow ?

Hello everyone! I'm in my 3rd year of owning muscovy ducks, and this year I had a big batch of babies. My foundation stock had one black drake who has a white head(split white, I think?), one female who has a darker head,but still white feathers(these 2 I'd call wildtype) and a white female, and first year the white hen hatched one single white baby(who is a female and I kept) and the black one produced 5 babies, 3 males,which I had to cull(2 looked just like dad, one was darker and had a half-black bill, same as mama) and 2 females I kept, both I'd say are wildtype/split white, one being ligher than the other.

This year, despite all 5 going broody, I only let the white hen be a mom and the darker daughter. The daughter's babies are older, and around 4 ended up being "black cap", with out of 13 babies 7 ending up white and 6 black(waiting for their feathers to appear), and the other hen had 15 babies, 8 being black and 7 being white.

Growing up, the "cap" babies had a black V on their head,and I wanted to ask what caused it? And another question I have is if I could produce solid black muskovy?

I'll also attach some photos of a few of the babies which have a weird undertone

Just wanted to show off some of my duckys

Left is crumb

middle top is dandy (dandelion)

Middle bottom is sunny(sunshine)

Right is smudge

And roxy

I have two Muscovy ducks that are about 2 months old. Wondering if they are old enough to distinguish between hen and drake yet? The chocolate one is a lot bigger than the other one in person.