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[pekinlover8301]

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My female started honking at about 6 weeks (they are almost 9 weeks now) and my male is much quieter. He is also more timid than she is and physically smaller (he always has been since we got them at a day old.) My female is in front with the pinker beak. Would you say his tail feathers curl?

No it doesn't look like it. Not yet. But there's still plenty of time!

 

[susychick]

how do you tell if your duck is male or female have two one young 4 months one about 2 yrs old

 

[misschickenlittle]

how do you tell if your duck is male or female have two one young 4 months   one about 2 yrs old 

Females 'quack' and males 'rasp'.

 

[Liquorqueen]

I don't think you have enough Pekins! You should def get a few more!

 

[Liquorqueen]

How in the world do you feed all those!!! Mine are eating all my hard earned money and I only have 2! Lol

 

[Liquorqueen]

I've been reading the post and I'm glad I did, (had to catch up on the news) 
anyway, my pins were born before easter and I know there drakes cuz they can't qwack.  But there tail hasn't curled yet.  The girl mentioned hers where 17wks approx. before the curl.  That ansered my ?    Still not happy there not girls!    but so be it.

I too getting unhappy! I wax trying to figure out my 2, and am beginning to think they are drakes as well! So sad cause I surely want daily eggs. Mine talk alot, but don't really quack and they are exactly 12 weeks tomorrow. No curl on a tail feather yet so I guess I gotta wait a nit longer. Jus my luck to get 2 boys out of about 30 in a pen to choose from!
When exactly will the eggs start showing up if I do have a hen??

 

[countrygirl74]

WOW!! I had a lot of catching up to do! I was out of town for a few days and then too busy to come on here for a couple more days after that.

WELCOME to all the new members!!

I kind of just had to skim through... but it sounds like most everyone got their questions answered??? If not, please ask again as there are a few of us on here that still might be able to help and just haven't had time to get on here daily lately.

Hope you all are having lots of fun with your Pekins!

 

[xx4truexx]

Is it to early to tell if these little guys are boys or girls? I think I have one boy and one girl because one is very loud and quacking and the other still peeps mostly but makes little quacks here and there. The one that is quiet has one slightly curled feather and is much calmer when I try and pick it up to go in at night, while the other quacks and honks and wiggles all around.

 

[countrygirl74]

It sounds like you might have one of each... the girls are loud and the boys have more of a whispery quack and usually take a little longer to start quacking than the females. It's usually easier to tell by the quack a lot sooner than the curled tail feather as the tail feathers don't show up until somewhere around 15-20 weeks. You will definitely be able to tell by the tail feathers when it happens as they really do curl up - almost a complete loop.

 

[chickensnewtome]

Hi all! I am a new Pekin momma. I have a question if you dont mind. I will start off with tell you about my babies, I aquired two grown drakes, Laffy and Taffy, about mid March. We decided we would get them some girlfriends and in late April we got our 6 wk old girls, Ying and Yang. The boys were fine with the girls until about a month ago. Laffy and Taffy got really aggresive and wond up breaking Ying's leg. We have had them separated since then but Yang the unhurt girl is now showing interest in my boys. She runs around in front of them and waves her little white butt at them and I think she wants to breed but I am absolutely TERRIFIED. To introduce them. I know I only want to introduce one Drake to her but I dont know how to go about it or if she is even ready. Any advice is much needed. I love all the pics of everyones Pekins. I love my babies even tho they are not tame but still very sweet to watch.