Pekin Duck Club!

[Rkirk]

no that's just it they are my little chunky butts! ome of my bigger males flew from one side of the run to the other. Had he gone a foot further he'd have gone out of the run and it is not small either lol. NEVER have i seen that and they are 100% Pekin lol

 

[pinusresinosa]

My indian runners could get about 5 or 6 feet of air if they were really excited. My heavier ducks like rouens and pekins? No way. Would be a thing to see- pekin flying. White mallard maybe?

 

[Rkirk]

see anything but pekin?? Lol

 

[Rkirk]

Not front one but one next to him. That's my flyer lol

 

[Robbo]

My big sexy man, Howard, and his best bud friend, two ladies, and his chicken girls.

 

[waynec1955]

My indian runners could get about 5 or 6 feet of air if they were really excited. My heavier ducks like rouens and pekins? No way. Would be a thing to see- pekin flying. White mallard maybe?

One of my female pekins will fly on occasion, not very far but maybe 20 - 25 ' about 2 feet off the ground.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I've been noticing my Pekin Puddles would try and jump up into the chickens nest boxes when I would go down and night to put them all to bed and turn out the light. I grabbed her one night and put her up in one and she seemed as happy as could be. I didn't leave her in there though because I didn't want her to get hurt getting out.

So this weekend I decided to build her and her Indian Runner friend Splash their very own nest box.

Built the box in the feed room next to the chickens boxes and cut a hole through the wall for access. Didn't lose any space inside the coop. I still need to insulate the outside (hence the blue-board) but since we are having usually warm weather (50F this morning) I'm not going to bother just yet.

They haven't gone in it yet but I bet once they discover it they will love it

didn't want to force them inside and cause them to be scared of it so I will just have to wait and see if it was a waste of my Saturday or not....

you did an awesome job, I bet they will like it too.

 

[Strawberryswyrl]

I've never seen a Pekin fly. yours must be on the lean side. lol to be able to get air born.

My indian runners could get about 5 or 6 feet of air if they were really excited. My heavier ducks like rouens and pekins? No way. Would be a thing to see- pekin flying. White mallard maybe?

Wow, all this about Pekins actually flying?? I remember my first set of regular-sized Pekins first trying their darndest to "fly" when they became fully-feathered. They would run, jump and flap with every gust of wind and only get up a little over a foot or two feet into the air and go about two feet in distance. This went on for a good month-and-a-half before they finally gave up and completely abandoned the operation!

Then, when I got my two Jumbo Pekins, they did the same thing initially, until they, too, abandoned the operation. Every once in a blue moon one of them will get a burst of energy to jump very high and flap, getting about two feet off of the ground, but never actually "flying" at all. I'll never forget the day when my jumbo drake tried to run and jump but negligently did a somersault right into our empty potato box! Poor boy! But anyway, Pekins don't have the proper body shape to keep them in flight very long and can really only jump and flap for a while in the air, but never actually "fly" from what I understand. I was rather surprised to read some of the descriptions here of these "flying Pekins." Hmm

 

[canard]

My Pekin fly-run when they are excited or trying to get somewhere faster. Very rarely, I will see them fly a few feet off the ground for a few yards, but not often.

They have such heavy bodies and short legs.

When I used to have runners and Khakis, some of them flew more. A few campbells could go pretty far and got quite high up in the air.

I see some Pekin fly the few feet off of the deck if they managed to stumble up there. Some just flop-fall down, so I discourage them from coming up cuz I don't want them to hurt themselves getting down.

 

[canard]

I did just see a few fly a few feet (barely off the ground) cuz they saw I had peas & didn't want to miss out!