How much should I be feeding my 6wk old pekins?

[Presta24]

I put out 1 cup per pekin in the morning with a few mealworms [with brewer's yeast if I am feeding all flock pellets]. What they don't eat first thing is left in the coop for them. The ducks free-range and one very hungry female will help herself to chicken food at a chicken feeder in the garden. Late afternoon/early evening when I am tucking the ducks into their coop for the night, I again give them a cup each of pellets with a few mealworms. It tends to be a skinny cup each in the evening, if I find they have food over from morning.

AS fort he drakes, the two pekin drakes tend to be excluded from food int he coop by the two larger muscovy drakes. The pekins are now in their own dog crate in the coop at night and each has his own food bowl and water. They also get a cup each pellets in the morning and a further cup each in the evening. They cannot get back into their crates during the day, but if they are hungry they can eat the leftover food in the muscovy bowl. The muscovy drakes never eat a full cup each in the morning. I think that they fill up adequately foraging for bugs and weeds

Do they eat separate? Or do you just put out 1c per duck?

 

[ruthhope]

Do they eat separate? Or do you just put out 1c per duck?

The three females eat from one large dish>

The drakes are different as the two muscovy exclude the two pekin drakes from the food dish in their coop. So both pekin drakes have their own food bowls in their dog crates. The two muscovy drakes share a bowl in the main coop.