Muscovy Duck 12 Hatching Eggs Various Rare colors.

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Muscovy Duck 12 Hatching Eggs Lots of rare colors. Beautiful, healthy, organic, free range ducks. Friendly ducks and great for bug control... especially flies and mosquitoes! Put them near your livestock or pond to reduce flies and mosquitoes by over 80%
Fresh eggs arrive to you no older than 4 days old. Hatch rate is above 90% here on the farm, please understand there are many variables that makes it impossible for me to predict what your hatch rate will be. A general rule when ordering hatching eggs to be shipped to you, is to order at least twice the number of eggs as ducks you want. If you want 6 ducks, order at least a dozen eggs. Please understand how to incubate and hatch eggs before ordering. If you need assistance learning about incubation or hatching eggs, or have any questions anytime during the hatching process, please ask! I’m here to help ups succeed!
DID YOU KNOW?
Muscovy are the only domestic ducks that are not derived from the Mallard Duck. Originating from the Caribbean Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua and Honduras where the native culture values them for their meat, Muscovy aren't really ducks, but rather large perching waterfowl (Cairina moschata).
Muscovy ducks are great on the farm and around the house to control insects the natural way. They are particularly helpful controlling flies, grasshoppers, ticks and mosquitos. If you put them in a pen with cows or calves they will eat most of the flies. In one experiment where two year old Muscovy ducks were put in cow pens, the fly population was reduced by 80 to 90 percent.
The males are large, weighing up to fifteen pounds, with the smaller females reaching about nine.
Muscovy females are excellent flyers. As a matter of fact, given their preference, they like to roost in trees; their feet have strong sharp claws and are built to grasp, so that they can perch on branches. They do best in a chicken house as opposed to a ground nesting duck house. They like to nest high, like chickens and enjoy "perches" or "roosts," they will get on these at night.
Since Muscovy are genetically dissimilar to other domestic waterfowl, many folks believe that they're more of a goose than a duck. For instance, they eat grass, as do geese, have a similarly long egg incubation period of 35 days (compared with 28 days for ducks), and they don't quack. This is a good trait since they are "quiet" ducks. The male has a low breathy (huffy) greeting, and the female a quiet trilling coo as well as a few other quiet vocalizations. They are neither truly duck or goose, in fact, they belong to a group of waterfowl that like to perch high in trees (Cairininae) similar to the knob-billed duck and the African Pygmy Goose .
Muscovy eggs are rich and delicious. They're a cream color with a harder shell then most duck eggs and weigh about 2.7 ounces, which would grade as "jumbo".
Typically, these birds have a calm temperament and are often described as "friendly as a puppy." It almost seems that the Muscovy are trying to "talk" when they come up to you, wag their tails like a dog, and look up at you as if to say, "Got a treat?" They often know their names and understand a wide variety of words and gestures.
While they are the easiest most friendly duck to tame down, Keep in mind that Muscovy males will sometimes be aggressive toward other males during breeding season, and females can also be pinchy little fireballs when it comes to protecting their eggs and babies, which is to be expected.
Muscovy will lay up to 180 eggs a year and hatch about four sets of ducklings if they get lots of high protein feed. Muscovy ducks are great mothers and do a good job raising their young. Muscovy take longer to hatch than other poultry... an egg takes 33 to 35 days to hatch. A chicken, for example, hatches in 21 days.
Muscovy meat is one of the healthiest meats on the market today, being 98% or greater fat free. Many people say that the breast meat of a Muscovy is hard to tell from a Sirloin steak. Famous chefs know this and use Muscovy meat in a number of ways. They have become experienced at cutting and preparing the meat for various delicacies. It is even ground up and used as hamburger in a variety of dishes. Folks on a low-fat diet know that the meat is not only great tasting but very nutritious. And, being so lean, meat from the Muscovy duck is not greasy as is the case with other ducks. Some say that the meat tastes a lot like expensive ham, others say it is hard to tell from veal.
Please allow 1-2 weeks for shipping. I only ship fresh layed eggs of the highest quality, and ship only on certain days of the week depending on your location to insure the shortest transit time possible. Shipped with USPS priority mail so you get them as fresh as possible!