Pekin Duck Club!

[Julie Birb]

So CUTE!! LITTLE BABY BIRBS AND THEY HAVE ORANGE FEETS. I MEAN WEBS.

 

[Julie Birb]

Can I be added as well please! Thank you!

Absolutely to both of you. Welcome to wonderful BYC

 

[MandyJ]

Today was the first time for my 6 day old ducklings to see the sun. It was 90 degrees here today so let them say "Hello Sun". They loved it. This is the second "swim" in the paint roller pan, this was a great suggestion from a BYC regular. Thanks! It was a great idea. I have 1 Pekin, 2 Cayuga, and 2 blue Swedish ducklings. I am hoping they will take up with my 2 older hens (see avatar). Pekin ducks are cool. So far the Pekin duckling seems to have more personality than the other 4. We'll see.

 

[tracyjg]

I have a question: how do we limit the water the baby ducks splash on the floor. I had a baby chick just hrs old die. Because I sat her with the ducks a minute. She got knocked into the water. Before I could switch everyone around in time. My partner worried about the walls and mold and the wires to dry underneath it wet. And the bookshelfs they where under. More should hopefully be born these week. And more chickens. I don't want another death.

 

[tracyjg]

I know marble help baby chicks. It doesn't serve older ones. There in baby's coop know. But it didn't help these morning trying to change everything over. The baby ducks did the same thing in other coop.

 

[MandyJ]

I have a question: how do we limit the water the baby ducks splash on the floor. I had a baby chick just hrs old die. Because I sat her with the ducks a minute. She got knocked into the water. Before I could switch everyone around in time. My partner worried about the walls and mold and the wires to dry underneath it wet. And the bookshelfs they where under. More should hopefully be born these week. And more chickens. I don't want another death.

Try putting their waterer on a cookie sheet with a wire top on it. The waterer sits on the wire and as the babies splash water it goes down through the wire into the cookie sheet. I use this and it works fairly well. I don't think ANYTHING will stop the water, after all they ARE "waterfowl". Ha Ha! Good luck!

 

[tracyjg]

I know. But it makes my partner crazy. The neat freak. No water on the walls floor tile countertops. Ect. I have one of the perfectionist in my home. The ducks chicken ect or considered normal in my view. His it's not. Just trying to live in neutral ground.

 

[MandyJ]

I know. But it makes my partner crazy. The neat freak. No water on the walls floor tile countertops. Ect. I have one of the perfectionist in my home. The ducks chicken ect or considered normal in my view. His it's not. Just trying to live in neutral ground.

I don't think you CAN be clean with ducks! I am raising my first set of ducklings, I have 2 older females already (see my avatar). They are terrible! I change their water/food/bedding twice a day. I am exhausted! Good luck!

 

[Lacey1988]

Okay so I'm incubating some pekin eggs for the first time and one began internally peeping this morning but still hasn't cracked through its shell. Should I be worried?

 

[Amiga]

Okay so I'm incubating some pekin eggs for the first time and one began internally peeping this morning but still hasn't cracked through its shell. Should I be worried?

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