They are only a year and a half.... They get a kiddie pool of water filled up in the summer. I wondered if it could just be dirt but it seemed weird to only be on those feathers.
I thought of that after I posted! I'll attach a pic.... I would have to check their food but it has always been one for all flock. They don't get very many snacks.... Mostly just lettuce, tomatoes, maybe cantaloupe or watermelon rind but the chickens normally eat anything first that is thrown in...
Wondering if this is cause for concern or what is going on.... We have 3 adult Perkins & they all have darker feathers on the edge of their wings-like an orangey brown.
He better be a gentlemen! I raised him right lol. He doesn't seem to be very rough with the Pekins I have. Just climbs on top & sometimes nibbles a little. I think I'll go for it as it wouldn't be too difficult for us to keep them separate if we needed to. They wouldn't be together for quite a...
I've been skeptical for a little while that one of our Pekins, Princess, should actually be called Prince..... She's the biggest, clearly has always been the ring leader, has a raspy quack compared to the other two, etc. I think it was confirmed today as "she" was mounting the other ducks & in...
I'm wanting to make sure I'm doing it right because of the faint ammonia smell.... Basically I want to make sure it's ok that there's the faint ammonia smell when I turn the bedding & that that's not harmful to them? Also it's fine to do deep litter in the summer too?
We are new to owning ducks & have 3 Pekins. We live in the city but were able to get a permit to keep them. We built them an open pen in our ginormous concrete garage. The indoor pen is roughly 5' x 6' just built with 2x4s & chicken wire. Then they have a little duck door that leads to their...