- Dec 10, 2013
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Hi! I live in the Chicagoland area and I love my pekin duck. She's a sweetie, really.
She's almost six months old and I was present at her hatching at my university. However, I'm starting grad school soon and I just won't have the housing resources for her. She grew up as a house duck but I won't be able to legally have her (different towns seem to have laws against having waterfowl), I won't have the space for her, and I might not have the time for her.
I want to be able to find a solution where she can continue to have a lot of interaction with people, her toys, and me getting maybe monthly updates that she's doing swell? She also likes the outdoors. Not as much as her pen but she is learning to forage!
I started looking into petting zoo like places, but the first organization I called were not even knowledgeable on ducks ("Your duck should really be in the wild..." No... I'm not sure if Pekins can even live well completely alone in the wild?) and the second place said once I hand her over I will never get to ask or hear a word about how she's doing then implied they'd just get rid of her.
What are some solid options, fellow duck lovers?
She's almost six months old and I was present at her hatching at my university. However, I'm starting grad school soon and I just won't have the housing resources for her. She grew up as a house duck but I won't be able to legally have her (different towns seem to have laws against having waterfowl), I won't have the space for her, and I might not have the time for her.
I want to be able to find a solution where she can continue to have a lot of interaction with people, her toys, and me getting maybe monthly updates that she's doing swell? She also likes the outdoors. Not as much as her pen but she is learning to forage!
I started looking into petting zoo like places, but the first organization I called were not even knowledgeable on ducks ("Your duck should really be in the wild..." No... I'm not sure if Pekins can even live well completely alone in the wild?) and the second place said once I hand her over I will never get to ask or hear a word about how she's doing then implied they'd just get rid of her.
What are some solid options, fellow duck lovers?
