Pekin Duck Club!

[Table4Six]

 

[maddysmamaw]

My pekins are six months old and recently started laying. When I locked the coop door tonight I found this.

Do they lay at night? Or is she deciding to go broody? She wasn't on the nest today, she was ducking around with the rest of her troop.

 

[Miss Lydia]

She may but my Buffs Runners and Muscovy's like to snuggle into their fav nesting spot when they go to bed so she may just be getting ready to lay. Most of mine lay before daylight. Sweet pic. Check down into that hay for hidden eggs.

 

[Tlmcq]

Mine usually lay early morning. I keep them in coop til about 9:30 or 10am so I can get most of their eggs. I do find a stray now n then but mostly they will be soft shelled if they're out in yard. Although, yesterday I did have someone go back in house to lay an egg. It was exactly where I had collected ones early that day, so I'm hoping my girl is working on a clutch and will go broody

 

[maddysmamaw]

They lay their eggs and then cover them with a light layer of straw. The eggs aren't as big as the eggs they hatched out of, yet. I just wish that they wouldn't lay right under the roosts where the chickens can poo on the nest.

 

[maddysmamaw]

I didn't think that pekins would go broody. They are my first ducks. A friend gave me eggs last spring to hatch. They are my first domestic ducks, I mean. I fostered two wood ducks that had lost their mom. Duck Duck and Sister. They've both moved away from home now, though Duck Duck comes back now and then to visit. She even brought her mate with her this year and they would both eat breakfast and dinner here. She still talks to me in her sweet, soft voice. Wood ducks and pekins are nothing alike.

Duck Duck

 

[maddysmamaw]

My boys. (I have three hens and two drakes)

 

[Tlmcq]

I didn't think that pekins would go broody. They are my first ducks. A friend gave me eggs last spring to hatch. They are my first domestic ducks, I mean. I fostered two wood ducks that had lost their mom. Duck Duck and Sister. They've both moved away from home now, though Duck Duck comes back now and then to visit. She even brought her mate with her this year and they would both eat breakfast and dinner here. She still talks to me in her sweet, soft voice. Wood ducks and pekins are nothing alike.

Duck Duck

Some do go broody but they don't make the best moms, usually. There are always exceptions, but the one I'm hoping to go broody is my mallard that is laying along with her.

 

[GooseHerder]

Here is my Pekin named Dolly! She was taking a dip in the pond.

 

[onaharley]

Here is my two that I got this spring, Bill and Ted....because it's gonna be an excellent adventure! Ted is a drake and Bill is the hen. I'm totally new to this and having lots of fun with these guys and learning so much, thanks to the BYC!!