If I want duck by easter when should I buy them?

[Fancie]

Easter is April 4th this year. I wanted to raise the ducks myself (pekin).... when should I purchuse my ducks?

 

[eggybritches]

Hatch them!

 

[Goat_Walker]

whenever you want

 

[rainplace]

I assume you're talking about for meat, yes?

Doing a quick google search it looks like you would want to butcher a pekin at week 7 or wait till week 15.

Purely Poultry sells jumbo pekins and they say: http://purelypoultry.com/pekin-ducklings-p-621.html
"Grimaud Hybrid Pekin Duck, a large, fast growing Pekin duck. They get 8-12.25 pounds. Annual duck egg production is 150-200 duck eggs. 8.2 pounds live weight at slaughter 49 days. Eviscerated weight 5.7 pounds. Duck Feed Conversion 2.74 pounds of feed to produce 1 pound of duck. Mortality 2.5%. As percent of duck: 21% Breast Filet, 30.2% skin and duck fat."

If you're not about ducks for meat, I don't understand the question.