- Feb 16, 2007
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About a month ago I picked up a couple of Pekin ducklings from the feed store. They seemed so skittish whenever I reached in to change the water and feed them. So I would hold them to try to calm them down..I wanted them to understand I wasn't going to harm them. They won't relax. Now they are almost full sized ducks and they still avoid me and hate it if I try to hold and pet them. Is this the nature of these ducks? Did I go about it all wrong?
On a different note...I have question.....I keep the chickens water and food in the coop. the ducks won't go in the coop and seek it out. If I leave it in the coop with they eventually get hungary enouph to go in and eat?
I have been catching them and putting them in the coop then they don't want to leave and they make a terrible mess of the waterer.
So then I put the food and water outside hoping they would learn to go in and out. They make my chickens look like geniuses.
I think I'll try giving them thier own water outside and leave them out there.....
On a different note...I have question.....I keep the chickens water and food in the coop. the ducks won't go in the coop and seek it out. If I leave it in the coop with they eventually get hungary enouph to go in and eat?
I have been catching them and putting them in the coop then they don't want to leave and they make a terrible mess of the waterer.
So then I put the food and water outside hoping they would learn to go in and out. They make my chickens look like geniuses.
I think I'll try giving them thier own water outside and leave them out there.....