Pekin Duck Club!

[Miss Lydia]

Bear with me here, Folks! I'm a newbie so I'm not sure if I'm in the right thread / forum?? See, I don't even know the lingo! LOL
That being said, I'm as clueless about these Perkins as I am about navigating through this site!
I'll catch on...
So, I'm a Peking Mom by default. I moved into a house with 6 ducks in a ridiculously small pen and a rooster and a hen roaming freely. They had no food or water! In July! In CALIFORNIA!!!
Flash forward to today. I have a drake and a hen

Sounds like they needed rescued and you moved in. Good to have you on BYC Welcome @Duck Heiress

 

[electrics1]

it looks like the eggs my Pekin lays also. My duck's eggs are a dull white and they are the size of the one in the picture

 

[dan26552]

The ducklings have joined the flock.

 

[dan26552]

 

[Miss Lydia]

Beautiful flock..

 

[dan26552]

Thank you.

 

[Nikosbirds]

How often do they lay? Also, BTW, not sure what picture you're referring to. About twice the size of a large chicken egg? My Indian runners are great layers. They lay blue eggs the size of a jumbo chicken egg, 5 or 6 times a week. I have a half dozen female Pekins, and 2 drakes: they are only about 10 weeks old, so not laying yet.

 

[dan26552]

How often do they lay? Also, BTW, not sure what picture you're referring to. About twice the size of a large chicken egg? My Indian runners are great layers. They lay blue eggs the size of a jumbo chicken egg, 5 or 6 times a week. I have a half dozen female Pekins, and 2 drakes: they are only about 10 weeks old, so not laying yet.

My pekins are insane layers, I have four who have finished molting and started laying again, one has been laying for the last 3 weeks and only taken 1 day off, ones been laying for almost 2 weeks nonstop and the other two just started up this week. Mine lay white eggs that are around 75 grams.

 

[Edingerfarm]

Hello,
I wonder if you would know why my Peking is turning yellow. I have a feeling it is the corn they are eating. Would that cause it? They also seem to be losing their white feathers, especially one of the large females. She is a pastel yellow almost all over now.
Thank you.

 

[MandyJ]

Hello,
I wonder if you would know why my Peking is turning yellow. I have a feeling it is the corn they are eating. Would that cause it? They also seem to be losing their white feathers, especially one of the large females. She is a pastel yellow almost all over now. 
Thank you.

How old are they? Could they be young? Young Pekins are yellow.