Pekin Duck Club!

[CherokeeFlats]

Welcome!!! I love your Pekins names hah I would end up calling the little one Woodstock or another Peanuts character .

P.S. I added you to the group! Feel free to post pics, stories, duck egg recipes, etc.

Awesome thank you!

 

[CherokeeFlats]

This is Lucy and Linus. I dont have pics of the other 2 yet. But once spring hits I'll be getting some!

 

[DenverDucky]

On being trained. We have two lovely girls about to turn one on Easter. Instead of having food always available, they come up on their deck and demand a meal or a snack. They do this several times throughout the day after they get bored from free ranging. At bed time, I step over their fence to put them to bed. Amelia goes right into their coop at this point but Gladys just waddles over to the entrance and lays down. You have to pick her up and place her inside. They have trained themselves though too. As soon as it starts getting a little dusk like, they are on the deck and next to the house. Smart ducks.

Hah ducks are way smarter than people give them credit for. Chickens too! A lot of animal trainers start with training poultry. If my duck could speak she would let everyone know its me getting trained... To give her treats

So how did you come to find Amelia and Gladys? They are so beautiful

 

[DenverDucky]

This is Lucy and Linus. I dont have pics of the other 2 yet. But once spring hits I'll be getting some!

Cuties

 

[MsChickenMomma]

I used to have two Pekin ducks that I bought from TSC along with four mallards (wish I didn't get the mallards...

) I tried everything to tame the mallards and nothing worked. Because my Mallards were so wild, my Pekins became wild. We tried to free range them one day and two of my mallards flew away and only one came back. We think something attacked them because the one who came home was twice as scared as he was before. My Pekins we a male and a female. I could catch them occasionally, but they used to freak out. We re-homed all of the ducks a year ago when we moved to a smaller farm. I really want ducks again (Just Pekins this time) but my mom refuses to let me get them again. She thinks that the next ones will end up just as wild as our last ones were. I'll be old enough to get a job next summer, and I plan on saving up some money to build a duck coop and get two or three Pekins again. The only problem is that we rent our house, and our landlord already doesn't like how many chickens we have running around

To help convince my mom to let me get some Pekins next year, how easy is it to tame a Pekin duck? I keep telling her that it's because we raised them with Mallards that they are so wild, but she is convinced that all Pekin ducks are hard to tame.

 

[calmwinds]

Pekins are smart as well as buffs and swedishblue a I have and have had. All the ducks were a few days old when we got them and were raised indoor until they were about four months old. The ducks know what is being said to them by their actions. Like do you want to play in the water go to bed stay out of the lake come here bug- when I catch a worm ect no wanta go outside the yard stay there come on lets play the swedish blue would fly with me while i ran gonna get you-to play. these are just a few phrases they know as with any animal or bird you spend time with them and they learn. It is not difficult nor anything special about it. Being consistent is the key and free with healthy treats. Just have fun with them

 

[DenverDucky]

I used to have two Pekin ducks that I bought from TSC along with four mallards (wish I didn't get the mallards...

) I tried everything to tame the mallards and nothing worked. Because my Mallards were so wild, my Pekins became wild. We tried to free range them one day and two of my mallards flew away and only one came back. We think something attacked them because the one who came home was twice as scared as he was before. My Pekins we a male and a female. I could catch them occasionally, but they used to freak out. We re-homed all of the ducks a year ago when we moved to a smaller farm. I really want ducks again (Just Pekins this time) but my mom refuses to let me get them again. She thinks that the next ones will end up just as wild as our last ones were. I'll be old enough to get a job next summer, and I plan on saving up some money to build a duck coop and get two or three Pekins again. The only problem is that we rent our house, and our landlord already doesn't like how many chickens we have running around

To help convince my mom to let me get some Pekins next year, how easy is it to tame a Pekin duck? I keep telling her that it's because we raised them with Mallards that they are so wild, but she is convinced that all Pekin ducks are hard to tame.

That's a shame you weren't successful with your first ducks. Did you get them as ducklings or adults?

 

[MsChickenMomma]

I got them from TSC when they were about 2-4 days old. I even spent all day with them. Handling them, and just watching them. No matter how hard I tried to tame them, the mallards were just too wild and scared. Which made the Pekin's wild because they were all raised together.

 

[Apyl]

I got them from TSC when they were about 2-4 days old. I even spent all day with them. Handling them, and just watching them. No matter how hard I tried to tame them, the mallards were just too wild and scared. Which made the Pekin's wild because they were all raised together.

Thats to bad. I raise all my ducks and chickens together.Some of my mallards a skittish around us but my drake mallards, my pekin and pekin mix all run to us for attention and treats. Maybe you just got a bad bunch.

 

[MsChickenMomma]

Thats to bad. I raise all my ducks and chickens together.Some of my mallards a skittish around us but my drake mallards, my pekin and pekin mix all run to us for attention and treats. Maybe you just got a bad bunch.

That may be it. I probably won't be getting more ducks any time this year. My parents are already building me a new coop and getting me 10 chicks in the Spring. I don't want to push it

For now I will just look at the photo's of everyone else's beautiful duckies!