Ordered 5 Pekins for next year- what should I prepare for?

[BYCforlife]

Hello! I decided to order 5 pekins. They will be straight run, so here's what I am going to do:

Build 2 small coops and runs, each with tubs of water. I will change the water very often. Also, I hear they drink water to help swallow feed. I will give them a deep trough poultry waterer to help with that.

The second run is for the most likely drakes. I will keep the males seperate from the females as I have no plans of hatching eggs.

I will take any suggestions! Thanks.

 

[Lamaremybabies]

Haha no plans of hatching eggs. Goodluck. Once you see those pekin babies you'll never want to not see them. From the sounds of it you've got the prep work taken care of, though.

 

[DanielleInUro]

Prepare to be the crazy duck lady to people at work. Prepare to fall hopelessly and ridiculously in love with ducks. To post duck video after duck video on facebook until everybody unfriends you except people who love ducks. Prepare for those ducks to be a gateway drug until your entire backyard is ducks and quail and cucumbers. Prepare to fret endlessly about your boy-to-girl ratio, and talk to your ducks, and buy twenty roma tomatoes a week for treats because they will play football with the tomatoes and it will be worth the money you spend on tomatoes. Prepare to spend your weekends building and rebuilding coops. To be up until 2 am for a week at a time because baby ducks don't understand 2 am, they only understand POOL PARTY WOOO HEY EVERYBODY LET'S GET DOWN and you understand why they're cute, it's so we don't murder them. Prepare to choose who you will ask to come and let the ducks out when you're out of town the way you would choose who will pick your baby up from day care. Prepare for hilarity and heartbreak, because ducks are the best thing in the world and also, everything kills them. Man, I just can't even.

 

[BYCforlife]

Prepare to be the crazy duck lady to people at work. Prepare to fall hopelessly and ridiculously in love with ducks. To post duck video after duck video on facebook until everybody unfriends you except people who love ducks. Prepare for those ducks to be a gateway drug until your entire backyard is ducks and quail and cucumbers. Prepare to fret endlessly about your boy-to-girl ratio, and talk to your ducks, and buy twenty roma tomatoes a week for treats because they will play football with the tomatoes and it will be worth the money you spend on tomatoes. Prepare to spend your weekends building and rebuilding coops. To be up until 2 am for a week at a time because baby ducks don't understand 2 am, they only understand POOL PARTY WOOO HEY EVERYBODY LET'S GET DOWN and you understand why they're cute, it's so we don't murder them. Prepare to choose who you will ask to come and let the ducks out when you're out of town the way you would choose who will pick your baby up from day care. Prepare for hilarity and heartbreak, because ducks are the best thing in the world and also, everything kills them. Man, I just can't even.

So just fun stuff to prepare for! Thanks for the tips!

 

[DanielleInUro]

In all practicality, though, prepare for more poop than you ever could have imagined these birds could make.

 

[chickens really]

Ducks are mud makers and drillers....They do great on rubber stall mats or sidewalk blocks that can be hosed off...Poop and then more poop...I use pine shavings in their houses....Kiddie pools are great....

 

[BYCforlife]

In all practicality, though, prepare for more poop than you ever could have imagined these birds could make.

Okay, thanks! I have a lot of bales to use for the coop and run. I'll make sure to have a large poop-evacuation door.