A Question About Ducks

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8/17/09 at 4:39pm

Daniel_2kaii9

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how do u sex pekin ducklings (how do u tell witch ones are boys and girls) ?

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8/17/09 at 5:15pm

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That's really hard to do, most people never try it because if you don't do it right it's easy to damage the duckliing. Most people have to wait until the duck's voice changes or the male gets a drake feather.

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8/17/09 at 7:28pm

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You won't know for months. Boys will lose their quack and then they get that drake curl to the tail feathers.

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8/18/09 at 2:12am

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okayy how old do the ducklings have 2 be before i can give them bread?

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8/18/09 at 6:25am

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Well if you want healthy ducklings you shouldn't give them bread, they need food filled with nutrition, bread is mostly empty calories.

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8/18/09 at 7:59am

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okay how do u get a pic up like you have when i try it it says the file is 2 big or something like that enyway

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8/18/09 at 8:16am

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How funny you ask right now I just figured that out this hour after about a year of stumbeling around with it! Let me see if I can retrace my steps. I went to the FAC which is in the top bar of all the BYC pages. The first question has a link to a thread about uploading avatars. On that thread you will find a link called shrink pictures - here it is: http://www.shrinkpictures.com/
See if you can figure it out from there or I will try to help you further.

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8/18/09 at 8:36am