Young Pekin Duckling 
One of the Weber birds, a female, ten weeks old, saved for a breeder and with 
some of her fat trained off by running around the range. The parallelogram shape 
of body which is aimed at in breeding is here in evidence. The neck of this female 
duck is shorter than that of the average female. The necks of the males are asa 
rule longer than the necks of the females. 
This is one of several poses which a duck assumes. She isin repose. At feed- 
ing time, and when they are waddling, the necks of both ducks and drakes are 
elongated and the body is tipped upward, the whole poise being different from what 
this picture shows. Many birds are so fat at killing age that their bellies rest on the 
ground when they are standing in repose like this bird. When such birds walk, 
they have to make an effort to pull their bellies off the ground, and roll from side to 
side in their walk, like a sailor ashore. 
The above picture 1s a drawing by an artist, and not a photograph. Actual 
photographs of ducks and drakes are given on other pages of this book. 
