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    Cayugas?

    I have 4 Cayugas, 3 boys and 1 girl. (I also have Pekins) The Cayugas are lovely in personality and in appearance. We've had them since they were 1 day old, it's so much fun watching them grow. Ours are now a little over 6 months old. I hear alot of people complain about 'mean' drakes but my...
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    What are my two Pekins doing? Video Included

    The same two Pekins as in the video were in the pool just now doing a neck dance. I hope I explain this well enough because I didnt get a video, they were facing one another and moving their necks back and forth. One to the left, then facing, then to the right. What does this mean? Do you have...
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    What are my two Pekins doing? Video Included

    Thanks for all the info, and your help. I guess really only time will tell with these Pekins who is who. I have only seen one other nip-like behavior and that is from the one dominate cayuga that we assumed must be male. He was nipping the everyone about 2 weeks ago and now as fully stopped. I...
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    What are my two Pekins doing? Video Included

    Interesting, thank you for the info. I'll have to watch the two of them more closely. If I take Iris away from the group she quacks but 'her' voice has changed and she sounds a bit like chicken today. I am looking forward to seeing some drake feathers so I have a better sense of who is male...
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    What are my two Pekins doing? Video Included

    You've seen yours act this way too? Were they a female and male couple? How old are yours now? Thanks for watching my video and your thoughts on it. Our ducks often bop their heads at us, I love that behavior too Quote: They are only 11 weeks old and they are still going through their voices...
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    What are my two Pekins doing? Video Included

    My ducks are 10 and a half weeks old, today two of them (Basil and Iris) starting doing this: Direct Link: I am guessing that this is the beginning of one duck courting another, I've noticed the two of them hanging around together a lot in the past week. Today I was lucky enough to have...
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    Bird Flu

    Ducks can carry the avain flu virus but it is very rare that it affects them. That is one of the great things about ducks! Here is a excerpt: "Katharine Magor, a U of A associate professor of biology, has identified the genetic detector that allows ducks to live, unharmed, as the host of...
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    Proud Cayuga owners!!!!

    Thanks for the tip, it is something to try. We haven't had a situation yet where Blackberry has been alone, so I guess I'll have to try that and see. They are always together in a group of seven or broken up into two groups, one with three the other with four. When they split up too far...
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    Proud Cayuga owners!!!!

    Welcome to BYC! I think you have beautiful ducks. I have cayugas as well, 4 of them. They are wonderful ducks, I enjoyed your comments on behavior at 13 weeks with mating, we were wondering when we might see more activity, Our our 10 weeks old now and one of our males, Clover, is just starting...
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    A video my ducks love Tomato

    We feed them both, whole and cut up grapes. When they were small it was only cut up grapes but then once we brought the whole grape cluster in to feed them and it dropped, they went mad for it. We learned then that they didn't care if it was cut or not. I prefer cutting them still though...
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    Pekin Thread, anyone?

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    A video my ducks love Tomato

    that is the direct link, enjoy!
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    A video my ducks love Tomato

    Thanks for watching everyone, the tomato chase really did make my day. lol :) The Pekins will do the same thing if we give them a piece of banana this way instead of cutting it up small. hehe
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    Pekin Thread, anyone?

    I was just doing a little online research on bill colors and came across Lutein http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutein most interestingly it talks of certain foods which have higher carotene levels kale, dandelions, turpin greens all being very high in this. It seems that ducks may show individual...
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    A video my ducks love Tomato

    Our ducks just love tomatoes, do any of yours love them too? This much? They go crazy for it and play this fun keep away game. Anyways, here is a video. You can also check out more of my duck videos on youtube, the goldfish one is another good one. You can hear Clementine quacking, she just...
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