Pekin ready to butcher?

[Funkhaus Farm]

How can you tell? Mine are a few days short of six weeks but still have quite a bit of brown on their cheeks and breasts.

 

[Poultry parent]

can you post some pictures? pekins don't have brown on them. the best time to butcher ducks is when they are 8 weeks old and there are no more downy feathers

 

[Funkhaus Farm]

Yes I will snap some pics and post them today, but your reply prompted me to do a little research. It seems the clerk at Rural King made a mistake and gave me runners instead of pekins. Oh well.

 

[Funkhaus Farm]

 

[Poultry parent]

those are definitely runners.

the white ones are my 10 week old pekins