Pekin Duck Club!

[CyndiD]

I am so sorry Early didn't make it She tried hard and so did you.                          What a precious baby just in time to help with heartache.  Is it a little Buff ?

she is a Pekin, just like Early. yes, she is sweet. thanks

 

[Lacrystol]

@lacrystol @tracyjg @Miss Lydia @Sarkchick
Hello Ladies, I want to say Thank You Very Much for all your help, assistance, concern and suggesions. I am sorry to say that I go the duckling out of the shell but she passed w/in 10mins while i was attending to another duckling. I though she was resting and doing well. then i saw the post about setting her upright. it was too late, i am sorry to say i did not see that post until afer she passed.
I had named her Early, Sarkchick helped me name her, for obvious reasons. She fought hard and so did I.
Thank you all very much for all you did to help me help her.
Sincerely, CyndiD
P.S. on a good note, this duckling hatched at the same time and is thriving

looks like they are going to do just fine, sorry about the one we were to late on.

 

[Lacrystol]

Help! I'm trying to determine if I should see if my Pekin girl Daffy will sit on these eggs or if I should take them now and put them in the incubator?? I always prefer letting the mom do all the work, but this is my first time with Pekins and have read how they rarely brood. Daffy is 9 months old, just got to point of lay about 6 weeks ago, and I know my Pekin drake is mating with her on an almost daily basis, so the eggs should be fertile. She's been sleeping on the eggs every night and then leaves the pen by day. I've seen her moving the eggs and this morning they were all pointy side up until the chickens got into her pen.

A biologist friend tells me that if I don't get the eggs into the incubator right away that I risk them losing their fertility (she lays 1 egg a day so the earliest egg is now 12 days old), but since she is showing brooding tendencies then I don't want to teach her that the human will just come and steal her eggs, I want her to brood.

So you experienced Pekin breeders, is it wishful thinking? Is my biologist friend right--I should just put them in the incubator now? Or does the fact that she sleeps on them at night and moves them around indicate that she may see them through to hatch?

Thanks so much!!!!!!

Becky

I would say she is NOT brooding, what kind of gives it a way is the nest itself.

 

[Lacrystol]

she is a Pekin, just like Early. yes, she is sweet. thanks

Please make sure they have some naicin available, I like to use Poultry drench and Vitamin B complex. I'll put 4 pills in a quart of drinking water, plus a squirt of poultry drench..

Can't remember did you say you had more eggs or was that the last?

 

[Lacrystol]

@CyndiD

Just a little FYI, after reviewing those pics one more time, the one that past, was a boy. In case you were wondering..

 

[tracyjg]

Some you help make it some don't. It depends on blood lose and time. How strong they our. How early or late you help them. We also had an event.

 

[Miss Lydia]

she is a Pekin, just like Early. yes, she is sweet. thanks

Her coloring looks like she has another color on her maybe the light.

 

[Sarkchick]

@CyndiD


Just a little FYI, after reviewing those pics one more time, the one that past, was a boy.  In case you were wondering..

Lacrystol, how do you tell if it is a boy?.

 

[Sarkchick]

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@lacrystol @tracyjg @Miss Lydia @Sarkchick
Hello Ladies, I want to say Thank You Very Much for all your help, assistance, concern and suggesions. I am sorry to say that I go the duckling out of the shell but she passed w/in 10mins while i was attending to another duckling. I though she was resting and doing well. then i saw the post about setting her upright. it was too late, i am sorry to say i did not see that post until afer she passed.
I had named her Early, Sarkchick helped me name her, for obvious reasons. She fought hard and so did I.
Thank you all very much for all you did to help me help her.
Sincerely, CyndiD
P.S. on a good note, this duckling hatched at the same time and is thriving

CyndiD, thank you for the thank you. You did all the work, lost sleep and most of the worry. I did help in the worry department.
Very sorry for Early. She took her name to seriously. So glad #2 is doing good. How many more do you have?
Linda

 

[Amiga]

CyndiD,