To find more females to grow our flock, I scoured the local facebook homestead groups, and local classified ads. However, muscovy ducks are not commonly kept, and so the options were slim. I finally found a listing for a flock of 3 female and 1 male muscovies that a lady no longer wanted to keep. We rushed down to pick up the flock. However, two established flocks do not really enjoy being joined together. The males were constantly fighting to prove prowess, and the females weren't much better. We separated our pen in two, and broke up fights when we let them out into the yard for our daily duck walks. 

The final straw was that the males attacked my younger children when they went out to tend to the flock. I am not sure why, because while they puffed and hissed for everyone, they never attacked the teens or adults. One day, my eight-year-old, animal whisperer, would-never-hurt-a-fly, daughter came in clawed up, shaking for 40 minutes after one of the males attacked her and chased her around the yard and cornered her near the shed. 

That was it! I was done with the puffing, hissing, aggressive males. I only wanted eggs. No need for them. Thankfully, this time I found an ad for a rescue farm nearby for small homestead animals. I met a volunteer from the organization that afternoon and turned the male muscovies, Goose and Hawk, out to pasture at the rescue farm. 

For the past few months, our four female muscovies, Mimi, Ducky Momo, Flash, and Jemima Puddle Duck, have been giving us about a dozen eggs a week. Being muscovies, though, they lay in spurts: many eggs for a few weeks, than a few weeks off.