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misfitmorgan

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I hear what your sayin' Misfit. However, I have watched our Muscovy & Pekin drakes. I have never seen a Muscov drake go near a Pekin hen, or vice versa. The two breeds seem to go their separate ways. DH says the same thing. Although, I know its possible they do it when we aren't looking.

We thought the same thing until the first batch of eggs hatched and we quite obviously had 9 mule ducks out of 14 eggs. Mule ducks will have mottled feet usually. Nothing wrong with the mule ducks if your after meat, most are sterile but grow a nice size and yes they can quack just not as apt to quake as a pekin.
 

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We thought the same thing until the first batch of eggs hatched and we quite obviously had 9 mule ducks out of 14 eggs. Mule ducks will have mottled feet usually. Nothing wrong with the mule ducks if your after meat, most are sterile but grow a nice size and yes they can quack just not as apt to quake as a pekin.
Well, we will just have to see what we end up getting. The four we hatched under our hen are Pekins.
 

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We have been out building gates, and came in for a break from the heat & humidity (89°/66%), and as we walked by the Blackberry vines, we noticed a few were black & ready for picking.
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So, we picked them & ate them right off the vine. :drool YUM!!! They were the sweetest blackberries I have ever eaten!

This is what they looked like a couple weeks ago.
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We still have blossoms, so should have blackberries for a while! This is our 3rd summer, with these plants, and the first with any real fruit. We are getting some nice canes coming from the ground. I'm thinking this Fall we will dig them up & transplant them to the ends of the trellis.
 

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The weather set back our plants and they were being choked out by many kinds of weeds. We will have some this yr, but not a bunch. When I was mowing the other day, I saw the wild ones on the ditch bank and they are Loaded, many are white and quite a few are pink/red....the canes still have blooms too.
I think we may have a Kahki hen wanting to set, but not sure...they will be a yr old the first wk in June....and she stays on the eggs until the pen is opened, then she comes out and stays out, but if Joyce tries to get the eggs from under her in the mornings, she fusses and bills Joyce's hand away. We left eggs under her the past couple of days, but she still gets off, so Joyce just picks them up later when she vacates.
 

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I think we may have a Kahki hen wanting to set, but not sure...they will be a yr old the first wk in June....and she stays on the eggs until the pen is opened, then she comes out and stays out, but if Joyce tries to get the eggs from under her in the mornings, she fusses and bills Joyce's hand away. We left eggs under her the past couple of days, but she still gets off, so Joyce just picks them up later when she vacates.
We had some broody hens last year, that would set for a while, but then get off the nest. I know this one was bloody last year, but I don't remember how persistent she was. This time, she wouldn't leave the nest for any thing. That's why I figured she would do a good job with duck eggs.
 
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