So it was late last night and ...well this morning and I couldn't sleep because I was watching the egg incubator. And I was looking at duck videos on Youtube.
Anyway, one of the videos was about ducks, and got me looking at peking ducks specifically. One was a montana rural guy.
He was claiming that pekin ducks can be used as guards (similar to geese in a way(?)). They aren't confrontational but will watch and then one of them will quack to sound an alarm.
Is this fact verifiable? I would like to know if its true and how to get it to work.
Also in this video, he says that approximately 80 or 85% of the duck meat in the stores is from pekin ducks. Another source quoted the same type of duck loosely at at least half of the duck meat being pekins, but wasn't as precise. This was interesting too.
Anyway, maybe there's more to this than we're figuring out. Maybe all of the breeds have unique traits. And I'd like to find out more about them.
But there's some discrepancies also. Like some videos said pekin ducks get to about 9 pounds, and quoted their eggs at much less. But a graph table I saw online quoted pekins getting up to 11 or 12 pounds. (Not jumbo pekins). This other source also quoted other breeds pounds and their eggs per year much more generously also.
So it seems like not all sources are equal. You have to wonder how different sources can be so far different from each other.
Now a note on home crafting;
I saw a picture recently of someone using basically just 4 plywood sheets (or particle board) clamped together for a duck pen in a picture last night. It was interesting because it was a guy just trying to do it on a budget. I admired the creativity, especially because in parts of the US you can buy a sheet of plywood or pressed hybrid plywood for 6 to 8 dollars each. This mean by using a little ingenuity and actually very few nails this guy had built a pen for less than $50 dollars!
Anyway, one of the videos was about ducks, and got me looking at peking ducks specifically. One was a montana rural guy.
He was claiming that pekin ducks can be used as guards (similar to geese in a way(?)). They aren't confrontational but will watch and then one of them will quack to sound an alarm.
Is this fact verifiable? I would like to know if its true and how to get it to work.
Also in this video, he says that approximately 80 or 85% of the duck meat in the stores is from pekin ducks. Another source quoted the same type of duck loosely at at least half of the duck meat being pekins, but wasn't as precise. This was interesting too.
Anyway, maybe there's more to this than we're figuring out. Maybe all of the breeds have unique traits. And I'd like to find out more about them.
But there's some discrepancies also. Like some videos said pekin ducks get to about 9 pounds, and quoted their eggs at much less. But a graph table I saw online quoted pekins getting up to 11 or 12 pounds. (Not jumbo pekins). This other source also quoted other breeds pounds and their eggs per year much more generously also.
So it seems like not all sources are equal. You have to wonder how different sources can be so far different from each other.
Now a note on home crafting;
I saw a picture recently of someone using basically just 4 plywood sheets (or particle board) clamped together for a duck pen in a picture last night. It was interesting because it was a guy just trying to do it on a budget. I admired the creativity, especially because in parts of the US you can buy a sheet of plywood or pressed hybrid plywood for 6 to 8 dollars each. This mean by using a little ingenuity and actually very few nails this guy had built a pen for less than $50 dollars!
