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Duck mommy 2019 said:
ok thank you, i follow an instagram account with pekins and khaki’s that can fly. but the guy said he trained them to fly?
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Not something they can be trained to do, and pekins definitely can't fly. They are very large ducks and there's no way for their wings to support their weight. So, that guy is making something up, lol.
 
Duck mommy 2019 said:
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I don't think I'd count that as real flying, haha. They're getting off the ground, but not very high, and the ground is actually sloping away from them, so they're kind flapping and falling and just slowing the fall, not getting any true upward distance. True flying, as in they get up in the air can actually fly way off the ground and go long distances, isn't something they can do.

So that's what I mean when I say they can't fly. They can probably get off the ground a couple feet (though I doubt my pekins could even do that much) but they can't take off like a mallard.
 
Pyxis said:
I don't think I'd count that as real flying, haha. They're getting off the ground, but not very high, and the ground is actually sloping away from them, so they're kind flapping and falling and just slowing the fall, not getting any true upward distance. True flying, as in they get up in the air can actually fly way off the ground and go long distances, isn't something they can do.

So that's what I mean when I say they can't fly. They can probably get off the ground a couple feet (though I doubt my pekins could even do that much) but they can't take off like a mallard.
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this wouldn’t be considered flying? they told me without training they fly 10 feet
 
Duck mommy 2019 said:
this wouldn’t be considered flying? they told me without training they fly 10 feet
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Ten feet up? I don't think so, but I could be wrong. I haven't had really light breed ducks in awhile, aside from my bantams, which ARE fully flighted, but I don't think mine ever got high enough to clear even a four foot fence. I know my welsh harlequins, which are classed as light, never did. Pekins certainly can't, haha.

But they can't really fly like mallards and other bantams can.
 
I have seen khakis trained to fly online, but a pekin geting off the ground at all is a sight to see. Different strains can have a higher propensity for flight.
 

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