Rural Gardening: Muscovy Ducks, 1 by mcamden

mcamden wrote:
My muscovy 'Bob' was given to us by a neighbor after our chickens and previous duck were killed by a badger. We raised Bob from an hour old, and he lives in the house with us (until next spring). He was stepped on by a horse one day, and lost most of the feathers from one wing, and his body. The vets said he would never grown them back or fly (he lost a lot of skin where they said the quills grew from). Last week...after growing back his wing, and all of his body feathers...he flew. He flew into the door since I didn’t get it opened in time for him to fly from the garage into the living room! CRAZY duck.

What we don’t get is that what is left of our neighbors duckling (he managed to kill 22 of the 24 he had) are all horrible ugly! They are Bobs full brother and sister, and look nothing like him! They have the ugly red stuff on their heads, and are all weird colors. Any clue why my Bobert is so attractive? Is there something about living outdoors that does this to them? Or did we just end up with the 'ugly duckling'?