Pekin Duck Club!

[chickery-do]

What a day. We had happy an sadness and me heart goes out to you both!

 

[summer9498]

I have a female pekin who has had a nest for months!!! Whenever I clean the coop I leave her nest. We recently added 4 ducklings and chickens about 3 weeks ago. Today when I entered the coop she hissed at me. My husband and I both noticed that this is a first. Also this morning she was sitting on the nest and did not jump up to go outside. As of now there is only 1 egg. Do you think the hissing is a sign that she is getting ready to become broody?

 

[kodster]

I have a female pekin who has had a nest for months!!! Whenever I clean the coop I leave her nest. We recently added 4 ducklings and chickens about 3 weeks ago. Today when I entered the coop she hissed at me. My husband and I both noticed that this is a first. Also this morning she was sitting on the nest and did not jump up to go outside. As of now there is only 1 egg. Do you think the hissing is a sign that she is getting ready to become broody?

Yep... she wants to build up her clutch, and doesn't want you taking her eggs.

 

[summer9498]

Ok well here's another question. You will maybe think I am crazy. I had to get rid of her mate as if this afternoon I was so sad to do it but he had become EXTREMELY aggressive and despite my attempts to keep him separated from the others he was still finding ways to attack the yougins. If anything only the one egg in the nest would be fertile.
She seems to already be adjusting but will it be more heart breaking to let her attempt to brood a nest? I thinking it won't hurt and I will candle it in 3-5 days.

 

[3acres]

I cry easy, so please don't boo my first attempt at making a duck video....

....I'll get better....(probably not).

from a few days ago..,,



edited: looks like the video is cut off???...and quality sucks....dang, (fail)...lol.

 

[The Howards]

I cry easy, so please don't boo my first attempt at making a duck video....

....I'll get better....(probably not).

from a few days ago..,,



edited: looks like the video is cut off???...and quality sucks....dang, (fail)...lol.

I think it was great. You have some pretty duckies there. Man, I wish we had a pond for our girls. They would go crazy over it.

 

[misschickenlittle]

Cosette found the chickens nesting boxes so no more muddy eggs!!

She's become the leader of the pack too! Love the muddy face!

 

[3acres]

I think it was great. You have some pretty duckies there. Man, I wish we had a pond for our girls. They would go crazy over it.

Thanks! I've been taking them to that pond a time or two a day for quite some time now. I thought I would never be able to get them out of it, but that isn't the case. They have a blast, but are WAY more comfortable in their pen. I sneak off and leave them down there and soon after, here they come, waddlin' up the hill....

. I may start playing some self-help confidence boosting tapes for them to listen to at night while they sleep....haha!

. ...of course then they would probably leave here...lol.

 

[kodster]

Ok well here's another question. You will maybe think I am crazy. I had to get rid of her mate as if this afternoon

I was so sad to do it but he had become EXTREMELY aggressive and despite my attempts to keep him separated from the others he was still finding ways to attack the yougins. If anything only the one egg in the nest would be fertile.
She seems to already be adjusting but will it be more heart breaking to let her attempt to brood a nest? I thinking it won't hurt and I will candle it in 3-5 days.

Your female actually retains semen from the male for 2-3 weeks, so if she's laying an egg a day, you will find that they are likely fertile, too. Let her have her eggs, and build up her clutch Any that don't hatch at the end of the incubation, which will likely be towards the end of the time she builds it up, and she'll stop laying for a while while she is broody. Let nature take her course.

 

[P-Funk]

OK, you experts

My two Pekins are doing great, still, but that's the problem. They are fine with the chooks living in the stall and run in the barn. They even venture out to free range as of 4 days ago. I'm in the process of building another coop to move everybody into. Under orders I am not supposed to remove any scrub oak so the run is built over some of it. There is no room for their ducky pool! I plan on leaving them in the barn until a horse needs their stall. Then what????