I need names!

Fresh clean water and the smell will be gone! - And they will love you for providing them with a nice bath. Those feathers will grow back beautiful after they molt.
Overweight? - That is one of the reasons why i have decided for White Layers instead. Pekin ducks have been bred for meat since generations and most of them have lost their sense for being fully stuffed and just eat too much… I hope you have other, active ducks and a lot of space for them to run around and exercise that fat into muscles. Blanca Duck, one of my White Layers has inherited that Pekin-size appetite and i assume that without the other ducks moving around soo much (especially the Runners!) she would turn into a fat blob, unable to walk more than the distance between the bedroom and the feeder.
Just encourage these two ducks to walk and forage and they will become healthy again.
Thanks, I have 3 acres for the chickens and ducks, 3 other ducks, 1 pond, 1 creek and a bunch of swamps around. I need to keep them in quarantine for 3 days? (Normally how long I do it.)
 
I'd name them Squeaky and Spruce!

Since @WannaBeHillBilly said they need to earn their names that made me think...

They've came to you pretty dirty and stinky as you say, well in no time after you care for them you'll spruce them up and they'll be squeaky clean :cool:
That's really cute! I got lucky with one girl and one boy to, oh and my female's beak is a pale yellow/orange-ish color I don't know if it's a white layer or not or if she is sick.
 
Thanks, I have 3 acres for the chickens and ducks, 3 other ducks, 1 pond, 1 creek and a bunch of swamps around. I need to keep them in quarantine for 3 days? (Normally how long I do it.)
Well three days isn't quarantine at all! The text-book says "30 days of quarantine"…
I definitely would keep the two separated from the rest of the flock (see no touch) just to give everybody time to get used to each other - and to see if the "newbies" get better or have something that needs more attention. Just let them discover what it means to be a free duck…
 
That's really cute! I got lucky with one girl and one boy to, oh and my female's beak is a pale yellow/orange-ish color I don't know if it's a white layer or not or if she is sick.
I have noticed that the duck on the left in your pictures has a slightly pale bill. On the other hand she has the really massive Pekin duck head. If you can get your hands on some red-cabbage or red-leaf kale try to feed that to them, the carotenoids will deepen the color of their legs and bills pretty quickly if they are healthy and just in a bad shape.
Do they lay?
 
I'd name them Squeaky and Spruce!

Since @WannaBeHillBilly said they need to earn their names that made me think...

They've came to you pretty dirty and stinky as you say, well in no time after you care for them you'll spruce them up and they'll be squeaky clean :cool:
:gig:lau
As long as you don't name them Dawn and Tide… ;)
 
Well three days isn't quarantine at all! The text-book says "30 days of quarantine"…
I definitely would keep the two separated from the rest of the flock (see no touch) just to give everybody time to get used to each other - and to see if the "newbies" get better or have something that needs more attention. Just let them discover what it means to be a free duck…
Yes, the coop is a 'see no touch' Never new that about quarantine, I just thought ducks were easier to get together with and introducing them.
 
That's really cute! I got lucky with one girl and one boy to, oh and my female's beak is a pale yellow/orange-ish color I don't know if it's a white layer or not or if she is sick.

Glad you like the names!

:gig:lau
As long as you don't name them Dawn and Tide… ;)

Oh no...isn't that the stuff that all the kids were eating for some strange reason for a 'challenge'?

Best to stay away from the names Dawn and Tide :gig
 
Glad you like the names!



Oh no...isn't that the stuff that all the kids were eating for some strange reason for a 'challenge'?

Best to stay away from the names Dawn and Tide :gig
:lau For the hen I went with 'echo' Her voice is loud but light, now just need the drakes name. :barnie
 

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