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Suzanne
Suzanne
3 years ago

Once again Jack, I love the current event shows. You have 3000 shows archived should someone want to refer back to the various topics. Current events now is a survivalist topics. Attracting more listeners is win win. They may be interested in your item of the day, a membership or sponsors. Possible prepares and not even know it. You are so well versed on any topic when speaking, very refreshing. Maybe this email reflects what thousands of people think but never took time to tell you.

Zeb
Zeb
3 years ago

Do you have any issues with the ducks and them leaving messes on porches and concrete patios. Would a raised bed have any issues?
Also do you have any good links/books for the proper way to clip the wings ?

Twiddlebugj
Twiddlebugj
3 years ago

Ducks, at least our Peking ducks, had a great love of snapping off geranium stems. You came out to a pile of stems. Are Moscovy ducks when free-ranging are as damaging to flower gardens? My chickens tend to leave most of my flowers alone.

Jim W
Jim W
3 years ago

Hi Jack,

Muscovy Ducks do just fine in colder weather.

I live in NS, Canada (zone 5b) with 3 hens and a drake. The ducks live in the chicken coop. They have been outside in temps as low as -5F (-20C). At temps below around 14F(-10C) they don’t like wind and will stay inside if it is breezy. They have no issue with ice and snow. They will root in the snow, I am not sure what they might be finding. We have a broader lamp in the coop we turn on when the temps get down around 23F (-5C), they seem largely indifferent to the lamp until around 5F(-15C) when they will be under it.

This is late as I just listened to the episode.

Bruce Sofge
Bruce Sofge
3 years ago

Jack,
We are building our home on a 500 acre lake that has year-round populations of ducks and geese. Would I be able to train the Muscovys to come home off of the lake and go to bed in the coop every night and leave eggs there, or would they leave us for the wild ducks and just live on the lake when mature? Will the feed be enough to keep them?

Penny McLoughlin
Penny McLoughlin
3 years ago

I always thought the Muscovy crosses were sterile as well but this last summer I had a couple of Muscovy/hen – Peking/drake cross hens that managed to hatch a dozen ducklings each. The they were bred to a Muscovy drake. Those offspring look fully Muscovy and I’ll be breeding them this summer as well.