Pekins Rock
In the Brooder
- Jul 31, 2023
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My (close to 3 month old) Pekin duck Millie has been doing this wierd thing. I get to her closure, I have to step over something to get into where she is with the rest of her flock. when I raise my leg over to get in she slowly motions to lay down. She also will lower her neck and head all the way to the ground and her wings kind of widen to make herself look flat but wider. She starts making this soft clucky Mommy chicken sound. The first couple of times she did this I thought something was really wrong with her but I don't really think that's the case anymore. When she does this I pet the sides of her from her chest area down to her tail. she always is looking up at me too. After about 5 strokes of petting her and softely rubbing under her bill neck area she kind of snaps out of it stands up and acts like nothing happened. Has anyone else delt with anything like this before? This is probably the 3rd week of this it's kind of a habit of her's. It's almost like her greeting. She eats, drinks, swims, baths, splashes like she's supposed to. She's the only one that does this.
