My Pekins are

[cskotek]

picking up a bad habbit! They are biting now. It dosent really hurt until they grab the inside of your upper arm

. Any way to break them of this new found habbit? My dad seems to find it funny and then teases them by wiggling this figers at them... Im glad someone finds it funny. And it even put manners on the pupy which im happy about because the puupy killed a duckling.

My boyfriend while he was holding the duck grabbed on for a while so i grabbed my camera and got some pics

 

[crissycriss]

My pekins started doing this after they started leaving bruies(msp) i would grab her bill and hold it shut and say no in a firm tone.I done this everytime she/they tried to bite.After 5 or 6 times they stopped doing it.

 

[cskotek]

Hmm. Will try. Im hoping it dont get worse when they go to mate that will prob be in feb/march ish.

 

[crissycriss]

How are your pekins doing?Have they stopped bitting you?Maybe once you show them your the boss they will quit bitting.

 

[cskotek]

No their still biting. And being irritaing. Ive done the hold the beak and say NO! and my bf was holding him and i guess it just made him more mad, and took his anger out on my bf hands hehehehe.. but still so i think ima going to let my dad have them. He likes them, so ill let them bite him. And i guess it can be from them always being in the pond they dont like to come home at night and rather stay outside on the pond with the geese and mallards. So i think the geese are a bad influence. So im giving up on that aspect. And today i was planting grass seed where the duck pen was and those little snots ran over and started eating it when i went to get the hose! Their being trouble makers but their too fluffy and cute to get rid of.

 

[crissycriss]

Sorry it didnt work out for you.It helped big time with mine.They do love to be trouble makers at times.Got to love those fluffy butts . I have read on here (byc) that sometimes ducks sometime turn wild when turned out on a pond.Dont know how true that is.

 

[cskotek]

Sorry it didnt work out for you.It helped big time with mine.They do love to be trouble makers at times.Got to love those fluffy butts

. I have read on here (byc) that sometimes ducks sometime turn wild when turned out on a pond.Dont know how true that is.

Mine i wouldnt say -wild- but their getting their aggressiveness from the geese. I dont mind how they like to stay on the pond at night,. their not going to like it in the winter time when there is no water xD!!! As soon as day break comes they come up to the cage with the others in and pace around it until i go out and open it. so i guess they have their own routine

 

[JulieNKC]

My call drake started doing that to me. He then progressed to trying to do "other" things with my arm and feet, and started biting hard enough to leave duck hickeys. I was told to hold him by the back of his neck and push him down (not hard enough to hurt, just to make him uncomfortable and show him who's boss). I only did it once, and he now only comes up to me when I call and will only nibble at me if I wiggle my fingers at him. And he leaves my toes alone.

 

[cskotek]

My call drake started doing that to me. He then progressed to trying to do "other" things with my arm and feet, and started biting hard enough to leave duck hickeys. I was told to hold him by the back of his neck and push him down (not hard enough to hurt, just to make him uncomfortable and show him who's boss). I only did it once, and he now only comes up to me when I call and will only nibble at me if I wiggle my fingers at him. And he leaves my toes alone.

Hmm ill try that one. seems more sensable. Thats what ducks do to each other when they do domince order. Hmmm

 

[PetesMom]

We do the whole grabbing the neck and "pinning" them down with our buff gander....he gets "brave" every now and then....and when we have to grab him and check him over (like yesterday when he was limping) he nibbles when you hold him and sometimes gets a little too hard and we simply grab right behind his head, not hard, and tell him no....and he usually listens