New Ducklings: Help with identifying breed

[DiYMama540]

A sure sign of having a Pekin duck or a duck with some Pekin heritage is the appetite: I am sure that Blanca, one of my White Layers has a lot of Pekin genes in her. Sometimes the wind accidentally shuts the door to the duck-house so they can't get to their pellets during the day. It is those evenings when Blanca falls asleep with her head in the feeder:

Another sign for Pekin are the more massive legs.

Blanca asleep in the feeder is the best thing I've seen all day! I need a coop cam in my life for things like this!!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Cookies? Pancakes?

 

[FortCluck]

I want to thank everyone who helped us on this thread... Pickles legs are almost completely straight, they're at about 95% in just a week. We are moving them to their 30x40 chain link free range area today that has lots of grass and bugs. Hopefully we will find some siblings for them today at the chicken swap since TSC has none at any of the stores I've called.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Awesome news! Hope you find more ducklings today!!

 

[FortCluck]

Awesome news! Hope you find more ducklings today!!

We have been searching since last Sunday. The ducklings we have now, all of them have brown coming in around their eyes like a stripe so no clue what they are and the waiting to see what they are is hard.

 

[FortCluck]

Meet Nacho and Taco... They're Muscovy

 

[Miss Lydia]

Aww y’all did good I love my Muscovy!!! They are precious little ones you have there

 

[FortCluck]

@Miss Lydia I have a question for you. The ducklings we got are 3 weeks. One is quite wobbly... Do you think it's from a deficiency?

I gave them a vitamin/mineral mix, flock raiser crumbles, peas, and nutritional yeast. She/he seems like it's getting better the longer it eats what I'm giving them.

There were also 6 of these duckling in a box so I'm wondering if maybe they were super cramped in that box or if it's a deficiency.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Hard to say for sure maybe keep up with what your doing and see how she is in a few days. If she’s improving that makes it a possibility she may have gotten stepped on.

 

[FortCluck]

Hard to say for sure maybe keep up with what your doing and see how she is in a few days. If she’s improving that makes it a possibility she may have gotten stepped on.

She's so pretty I hope she will be okay