Pekin Duck Club!

[Miss Lydia]

I would love to see that. And speaking of mealworms, Patti, I haven't gotten to the feed store yet for my tinys. Better do that this weekend.

Julie Bird your local pet shop will have them too and probably other kinds of dried insects also.

 

[FlyOverZone]

Hi, I'm new to Bird raising. I have 2 Pekin hens and 2 Pekin Drakes(?), 6 months old.

Ok, I just started finding eggs in the morning, 1 egg like clockwork for about the last week. The 1st couple were smallish, about the size of a Large Chicken Egg. Then, The day before yesterday the egg was Huge, yesterday the egg was the size of a chicken egg, this morning the egg was Huge again.

Question: Are 2 hens laying different sized eggs that happen to be one a day, or is ONE hen laying different sized eggs?

 

[Julie Birb]

Julie Bird your local pet shop will have them too and probably other kinds of dried insects also.

Oh cool. Thank you. I will stop at petsmart then. This will be fun.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Oh cool. Thank you. I will stop at petsmart then. This will be fun.

waiting to hear all about it.

 

[Julie Birb]

waiting to hear all about it.

Awe, cool. Thank you Patti!!

 

[freakshow5]

Hello i am new to this forum. I live in maine and i have 8 ducks roughly 4 months old. I recently figured out that 7 are males and my only female is the little mallard. They are starting to all gang up on her and i would like to get advise. Thanks!!

I also live in Maine and I'm new to having ducks but I think you need to separate her from the males

 

[freakshow5]

@8ducks there's a guy on Craigslist who has a whole bunch of female ducks for sale in Albion up near Augusta. I got 3 females from him last week.

 

[JadeComputerGal]

Oh cool. Thank you. I will stop at petsmart then. This will be fun.

I'd love to see it if you can get a video of them trying mealworms. I agree that they're very expensive from a per pound perspective, but a pound is a lot because they weigh so little. You might want to check into how that would affect birds as tiny as finches, or maybe only give them 3-4 each first to see how they react. They're very high in protein and fairly high in fat. Like some of the others here, if we gave our ducks all the mealworms they wanted, they'd never stop eating them.

 

[JadeComputerGal]

I got some oyster shell for Hazel today. She wants nothing to do with it. Picky little thing. We also bought a bag a dried mealworms. I figured they would love them. They stuck their noses in the air and walked away. The geese stepped on theirs and the calls ate around them. Those things are $4.99 for a little bag! I'm going to stick to peas and lettuce, it's cheaper.

You could try dropping some in a water dish. One advantage of the dried ones is they float. You could also try some live ones. You can find those at stores that sell aquarium supplies, bait stores, and some pet stores. We pick up those and small fish when we go to the aquarium store, which is usually only a couple of times per month because it's kind of out of the way. The live ones will last a good while if you store them in the fridge.

 

[JLynnsDuckies]

I will try that, thank you. I definately want to put some fish in their pools. I bet it's hallarious watching them the first time. I can already see the head tilts.