The Duck Thread

[Tevyes Dad]

I'd go with a Buff / Pekin cross. Assuming the same age, if that's a Buff duck, its bill is very orange and it is huge, if its Pekin, it is very Buff colored.

Here are some pics of a Buff and a Pekin around that age together:







You can see the Pekin is much bigger than the Buff and the Buff has a purple tint to its bill.

 

[casportpony]

I'd go with a Buff / Pekin cross. Assuming the same age, if that's a Buff duck, its bill is very orange and it is huge, if its Pekin, it is very Buff colored.

Here are some pics of a Buff and a Pekin around that age together:







You can see the Pekin is much bigger than the Buff and the Buff has a purple tint to its bill.

You should enter the flapper contest!

 

[Tevyes Dad]

You should enter the flapper contest!

I don't see one...

 

[casportpony]

Quote: OMG, I love your avatar! Let me go find the link.

 

[casportpony]

@Tevyes Dad https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1159771/contest-6-flapper-contest-8th-annual-easter-hatch-along

 

[Tevyes Dad]

@Tevyes Dad https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1159771/contest-6-flapper-contest-8th-annual-easter-hatch-along

Thanks. I probably saw easter-hatch-along and skimmed right by... I'm on the road, so I posted the one you liked and another recent repost. (I really don't want the prize - we are full up, not set up for chickens and I don't have the nerve for a hatch, that's why I let Metzers do it for me.. LOL) But it's fun to put the pics up

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Great pictures, thanks for posting them. If you win you could gift the prize to someone maybe?

 

[Tevyes Dad]

Great pictures, thanks for posting them. If you win you could gift the prize to someone maybe?

Yup, I would just pass them down the line (give them to #2) though I am sure someone will get a much better picture. I could have gotten some way better ones if standing wasn't a requirement. I have some super flapper pics from the big pool. Such as:



or


This one I took, but it isn't my bird nor is it domestic poultry. It is a little chinstrap penguin named Peter Pan at SeaWorld in San Diego:


I did consider this picture of my boys, but the other picture shows of Kaine's speculum feathers so well.

 

[Pharmakultur]

I think your plan would work. Cull the aggressive drake and get your lone drake at least 2-4 females. Try craigslist, feed stores check for poultry swaps in your area.

@Pharmakultur Welcome to BYC

Thank you so much for your input, I've only had ducks since the beginning of last fall, so I feel like I'm still in the learning curve.. I think I'll check out some of the local vendors at the Farmers Market.. I had a bad experience with sick/wormy chickens that I got on Craigslist...

(I think we're outgrowing our urban homestead!! Mixed feelings)

 

[Pharmakultur]

We put our boy in time outs when he started a fight. Sounds weird but it actually worked. He hated being penned watching the other ducks play. I'd take him out and as soon as I saw aggression pen him again. Took a few days but he finally stopped.

What a good idea!! I don't know that I have a few days to be able to do it consistently though...

I was thinking of just separating them through a poultry net, but I can just see them getting all wrapped up and it ending VERY badly for one or both of them..

Going to search for some hens!