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A no-kill Muscovy duck sanctuary building a safe forever home for ducks in need. 🦆❤️ Helping Muscovies through rescue, rehabilitation & education.
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We are a 501(c)3 non-profit organization currently seeking both volunteers and financial support for land to help us create this safe haven that is so needed for Muscovy ducklings. Tell your friends about us and help us spread the word! Donations are tax-deductible and can be sent through Paypal or Venmo at [email protected]. If you have questions about our plans, feel free to private message us or text/call us at +1 (813) 616-9639. We love to talk about Muscovies! (A COPY OF THE OFFICIAL REGISTRATION AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE DIVISION OF CONSUMER SERVICES BY CALLING TOLL-FREE (800-435-7352) WITHIN THE STATE. REGISTRATION DOES NOT IMPLY ENDORSEMENT, APPROVAL, OR RECOMMENDATION BY THE STATE. - Registration )

11/02/2026

🦆 MUSCOVY MONDAY: What is angel wing?

Have you ever noticed a Muscovy whose wing feathers stick out to the side instead of resting flat against their body?

This is a condition commonly known as angel wing. 🪽

Angel wing is a developmental wing deformity seen in waterfowl, including Muscovies. As a young duck grows, the outer portion of the wing twists outward rather than resting in its normal position against the body. This gives the wing its recognizable “sticking out” appearance.

So, what causes it?

The answer is actually more complicated than you might thinkNutrition can play a role, particularly during the period when a young duck is growing very quickly. An unbalanced diet, rapid growth, and other nutritional factors have all been associated with the development of angel wing.

But diet isn’t the whole story.

Genetics can play a role too.🧬

Research suggests that there can be a hereditary component to angel wing, and the condition has been specifically documented in Muscovy ducks. Other factors may contribute as well, which is why there isn’t always one simple explanation for why an individual duck develops it.

Timing is also important.

When angel wing is first beginning to develop in a young, growing duckling, there can sometimes be a small window when the wing can be supported or wrapped into the correct position as it continues growing. Once the wing has finished developing and angel wing is fully established, however, it generally cannot be corrected.

Thankfully, angel wing itself is not painful. ❤️

It can affect a Muscovy’s ability to fly, and the feathers that stick outward may occasionally catch on things. Some ducks may also be treated differently by other members of their flock because they look different.

But many Muscovies with angel wing adapt incredibly well and can live perfectly happy lives. 🦆❤️

Every unusual-looking wing has a story, and sometimes learning what we’re seeing is the first step toward understanding these incredible ducks a little better.

Do you have a Muscovy with angel wing in your flock? We’d love to see your little angels in the comments! 🪽🦆❤️

11/01/2026

We hope everyone had a fun and safe Halloween! 🎃🦆❤️

The costumes are coming off, the pumpkins are still hanging around, and somehow it’s officially November!🍂

We’re heading into a new month with full bellies, muddy duck feet, lots of happy tail wags, and a flock that remains completely unaware of what month it is.🦆

But we’re also heading into it feeling incredibly grateful for all of you. Whether you’ve been following our flock for years or just recently found us, thank you for being here, loving these ducks with us, and giving us a place to share all of their stories and personalities. ❤️

So, happy first day of November from our flock to yours! 🦆🍂

What are you looking forward to this month? Tell us below! Bonus points if your answer involves ducks.❤️

And as always, sound ON for some Muscovy ASMR.🔊

10/31/2026

🎃🦆 Happy Halloween from our flock!

We know Muscovies can be pretty spooky sometimes… especially when they're giving you that mysterious stare or raising their crest!

Now it's your turn! Do you have a spooky-looking Muscovy or one dressed up for the occasion?

Share your spookiest Muscovy pictures in the comments! Real costumes, funny poses, or even digitally dressed-up Muscovies are all welcome. We want to see your feathered little monsters!

Have a safe and happy Halloween!

🔗 Learn more, donate, and find ways to support our flock:

https://linktr.ee/muscovysanctuary

10/30/2026

This is what home looks like. ❤️🦆

A quiet afternoon. Grass under their feet. Friends nearby. A safe place to rest, explore, and simply be ducks.

These are just a few members of our flock enjoying the day at our new property in Crystal River.

After years of dreaming about having a permanent home for the Muscovy Sanctuary, getting to watch them relax here is pretty incredible.

But our whole flock isn’t home yet.

Many of our Muscovies are still at our previous location in Plant City, waiting while we finish the large, secure enclosure they need before they can safely make the move to Crystal River.

We recently created our Bring Our Flock Home fundraiser to help us finish it. Donations will help with fencing, predator protection, overhead netting, pond and plumbing supplies, shelter improvements, and other materials needed to make their new home safe.

When you donate, this is what you’re helping give them.

Not just fencing or building materials.

A safe place to spend the rest of their lives.

A place to nap in the shade. Take a bath. Forage through the grass. Hang out with their friends. Find their favorite spot in the sun.

A place to be home. ❤️

Some of our flock is already here enjoying it. Now we need your help bringing the rest of them home.

And make sure your sound is on for some very relaxing Muscovy noises. 🥹🦆❤️

If you’re able to donate, even a few dollars gets us closer. And if you can’t donate, sharing our fundraiser helps more than you know.

🦆 Help us Bring Our Flock Home:
https://givebutter.com/bring-our-flock-home-loxto8

10/29/2026

Look at these two tiny babies. 🥹❤️

This is Spitfire and Biscuit, back in 2022.

If you’ve been following along, you may recognize Biscuit from our recent post about him and Momma. But long before Momma came along, there was Spitfire.

Spitfire came to us after suffering horrific abuse as a duckling. He had been covered in hardened candle wax, leaving severe burns across his tiny body. There was a time when we weren’t sure he was going to make it.

But Spitfire was a fighter.

Biscuit grew up beside him, and as they got older, their bond became something pretty incredible. Spitfire had all the makings of a flock leader, but his lasting injuries made fighting difficult. Biscuit became his protector and enforcer, fighting the battles his brother couldn’t and helping Spitfire become top duck.

It was something we had never seen before, and haven’t seen since. Typically, a male has to fight his own way to the top of the flock. But Spitfire had Biscuit.

They grew up together. And now, we want to bring them back together. ❤️

Biscuit is here with us in Crystal River, but Spitfire is still at our old Plant City location.

Before Spitfire and the rest of our Muscovies can come home, we need to finish building their new enclosure.

We’ve created a Givebutter campaign specifically to help raise the funds we need to finish their forever home and bring the rest of our flock to Crystal River.

Every post, share, and donation toward this enclosure brings us one step closer.

We know we recently asked for help with Seeger’s veterinary care, and we are incredibly grateful to everyone who donated, shared, sent kind words, and shared veterinary recommendations with us. Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to help. We’ll have a health update on our sweet Seeger soon.

As a nonprofit sanctuary caring for hundreds of Muscovies, donations are what allow us to keep doing this work. We never want our page to feel like we’re constantly asking for money, but the truth is, we simply couldn’t do what we do without your support.

And right now, that support means helping us bring the rest of our flock home.

Someday soon, we hope to show you another video of Spitfire and Biscuit together. Only this time, they won’t be tiny babies. 🦆❤️

They’ll be two old friends, together again.

If you can donate, thank you. If you can share, that helps us more than you know.

Let’s bring Spitfire home. ❤️

https://givebutter.com/bring-our-flock-home-loxto8

10/27/2026

🎃👻 Halloween has officially arrived at the Muscovy Sanctuary… whether the ducks agreed to participate or not. 🦆

We may not have convinced everyone to put on a Halloween costume, but luckily, a little photo editing means they didn’t actually get a choice.

And apparently, everyone had VERY different ideas about the dress code.

We’ve got a little rock ’n’ roll, a vampire ready to haunt the duck yard, a pumpkin who somehow looks like this was the plan all along, and a pirate who looks entirely too comfortable with a life of crime. 🕺🧛‍♂️🎃🏴‍☠️

One thing we’ve learned from caring for Muscovies is that they have absolutely no shortage of personality. Give us enough photos of them and it becomes pretty easy to decide exactly what their Halloween alter egos should be. ❤️

The best part? No ducks were subjected to our questionable costume choices in the making of these photos. Their dignity remains mostly intact.

Now comes the important part…

🎃 Who wins the Muscovy Sanctuary Halloween costume contest?!

🕺 Rock ’n’ Roll
🧛 Vampire
🏴‍☠️ Pirate
🎃 Pumpkin

We have our favorites, but we’ll keep our opinions to ourselves. 👀

Cast your vote in the comments and tell us which costume fits its model best! 👇🦆

Happy almost-Halloween from some of the Sanctuary’s spookiest residents! 🎃👻❤️

10/26/2026

🦆 MUSCOVY MONDAY: What’s with the mohawk?!

Have you ever noticed your Muscovy suddenly sporting a fabulous new hairstyle?

Those feathers on top of a Muscovy’s head are called their crest, and Muscovies can actually raise and lower them depending on what’s happening around them.

A raised crest doesn’t mean just one thing. You might see those feathers pop up when a Muscovy is excited, alert, interested, alarmed, or interacting with another duck or person. Males may also raise their crests during courtship and dominance displays.

That means the crest is just one piece of their body language. To understand what a Muscovy is communicating, you have to look at the whole duck and what’s happening around them.

Think of it as one part of a Muscovy’s communication system! Their crest can work alongside other behaviors like tail wagging, head movements, hissing, and body posture. So when the mohawk goes up, look at everything else your Muscovy is doing for clues about what has their attention. 🦆❤️

And yes, the boys know their hair looks good. 😂 Male Muscovies use their crests when showing off for females and when displaying to other males.

Every duck has their own personality, too! Ian’s mohawk, for example, frequently pops right up when he hears Miss Gail talking to him. 🥹❤️

And we would like to extend a very special thank you to Skydiver (aka Sky) for so graciously agreeing to model for today’s educational purposes. 📸🦆 We greatly appreciate the willingness to pose for us.

Now it’s your Muscovy’s turn!

📸 SHOW US YOUR MUSCOVY MOHAWK! Drop your best mohawk pictures in the comments! 🦆⬇️

10/25/2026

Plot twist: not everyone at the Muscovy Sanctuary has feathers. 🐱🦆

Meet our Sanctuary cats, Jeanie and our newest little addition, Beep-Beep. ❤️

Jeanie will be 3 in December, and she’s a pretty special girl around here. She was raised around Ad’ika and has always been incredibly respectful of the birds. In fact, 12 of our ducks were raised right alongside her! When they were tiny and living in a pen in the living room, Jeanie would climb in just to hang out with them.

So while we would NEVER recommend allowing just any cat around ducks, Jeanie grew up with them, knows the rules, and has proven herself trustworthy around her feathered siblings.

And now, apparently, she has a little sister of her own. 🥹

Meet Beep-Beep!

This tiny girl is only about 6 weeks old and had quite the introduction to the world. She was rescued on Sunday after being found inside the wheel well of a Jeep at the feed store. And when we saw those markings, we couldn’t help but notice she looked a little familiar...

A miniature Jeanie! ❤️

Jeanie seems to agree. She has taken to Beep-Beep like she’s her own little sibling, and watching the two of them together has been ridiculously adorable.

Beep-Beep is joining us as our first official farm cat. As she grows up around the Sanctuary, her role will be a little different from the rest of our flock. Our cats are here as working members of the farm, helping protect the ducks and the property, while also being very loved members of the family.

And before anyone gets too excited, we should probably clarify: we are still a duck sanctuary, not a cat sanctuary! These two are special members of our Sanctuary family with a job of their own: helping us look out for the feathered residents already in our care. 🐱❤️🦆

Sometimes protecting a flock takes a whole team.

And apparently, part of ours has whiskers. ❤️

10/24/2026

🚨 WE URGENTLY NEED MEALWORMS! 🪱🦆❤️

https://www.muscovysanctuary.org/donate

A huge portion of our flock is molting right now, and some of our ducks are having a particularly rough time with it.

This is Huffy. Almost all of those feathers you see coming in are NEW. She’s replacing an incredible amount of feathers all at once, which puts a lot of extra demand on her body.

And for Huffy, that matters even more. Because of her disabilities, maintaining her health already takes a little extra support. Right now, her body is working overtime to grow all of those new feathers.

Ian is going through a really heavy molt too, along with many others in our flock.

One way we can help support them through it is with additional protein, and our ducks happen to have a VERY favorite source: mealworms🪱

We’ve moved our preferred mealworms to the very top of our Amazon Wish List, and we would be incredibly grateful for any bags sent our way!

You may notice we’re asking for a specific kind. We’re careful about the mealworms we feed because how feeder insects are raised matters. Research has found that insects raised for food and feed, including mealworms, can harbor parasites, including some capable of infecting animals. Our preferred mealworms are raised on organic carrots and wheat, so we feel much more comfortable feeding them to our flock.

With hundreds of ducks and so many molting at once, we can go through mealworms FAST.

So if you’ve ever wanted to send Huffy, Ian, and their friends a little treat, now is the perfect time. ❤️ Every bag from our Wish List will be very happily received and put to good use!

We are always so grateful for the way this community shows up for our ducks. Whether you purchase something from the Wish List, share our posts, or simply follow along and love these guys with us, thank you. It means more than you know. 🦆❤️

10/23/2026

Where Momma goes, Biscuit is never too far behind. 🥹❤️

But there’s a reason he follows her around like a puppy.

Long before Biscuit met Momma, he had a job. He grew up alongside Spitfire, a Muscovy who had survived horrific abuse as a duckling. As the two grew up, it became clear that Spitfire had the personality of a flock leader, but the lasting injuries from his past made it difficult for him to fight his way to the top.

That’s where Biscuit came in.

Biscuit became Spitfire’s protector and enforcer, fighting the battles his brother couldn’t. And eventually, Spitfire became the leader of the flock. Protecting someone seemed to give Biscuit purpose.

As the years passed, Spitfire grew more secure in his position and needed Biscuit’s protection less and less. Without someone to look after, it seemed like Biscuit had lost a little bit of his purpose.

And then he met Momma. ❤️

Momma came to us missing most of her bill, likely from a turtle bite. She healed, adapted, and proved very quickly that her disability did absolutely nothing to diminish her personality. Momma is confident, independent, and has more than a little swagger.

When Biscuit temporarily came home for treatment for an eye infection, he saw Momma and was immediately smitten. We initially kept them separated, but Momma had other plans. One day, she jumped the corral fence and found her own way into Biscuit’s space.

Apparently, the feeling was mutual. 😂

Once we knew Momma could safely be with him, the two were allowed to stay together.

Now at our Crystal River property, Biscuit follows Momma around like you see here. He has claimed his little piece of the Sanctuary, Momma is proudly by his side, and Biscuit has someone to protect again.

And don't worry, Momma certainly enjoys her new position too. She has absolutely no problem reminding anyone who wanders into their territory that her man is in charge.

Sometimes the right friend comes along and gives you a purpose you didn’t even realize you were missing.

Our Biscuit and Momma. ❤️🦆

Address

12818 Raysbrook Drive
Riverview, FL
33569

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 9pm
Tuesday	9am - 9pm
Wednesday	9am - 9pm
Thursday	9am - 9pm
Friday	9am - 9pm
Saturday	9am - 9pm
Sunday	9am - 9pm

Telephone

+18136169639

Website

https://linktr.ee/muscovysanctuary, http://muscovysanctuary.org/

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