A Pekin duck's paperwork is flock paperwork with one heavy white individual at the centre of it. Pekins are big, fast-growing ducks kept for eggs, the table, and sheer garden presence, and their records — vet details, premises registration, local keeping permission, and a weight and laying history — all name an address that stops being true on moving day. Because one white Pekin looks much like another, the written file is also her identity. Update it in the order of who will need it: officials and vets first, then the records that describe the bird herself.
Premises registration and the duck rules at the new address
Place paperwork comes first because waterfowl rules are address-specific and sometimes stricter than hen rules. Check the new property against local ordinances and neighbourhood covenants on ducks: pond and water-feature expectations, distances from boundaries, total poultry numbers, and any permit the new address triggers. Update premises identification or flock registration records tied to the old garden, including records held for poultry disease-control purposes, and complete a fresh registration for the new premises if one is required — an official tracing a waterfowl health alert needs the garden with the pool, not the one you left. Keep the landlord's written permission in the same file if you rent; duck-keeping consent given for one property never follows you to the next on its own.
Veterinary records and a waterfowl vet within reach
Veterinary paperwork moves second, and it means finding the vet before the emergency. Update your existing practice with the new address or, if you have left their area, have her flock history noted for transfer: respiratory episodes, leg or foot problems, laying difficulties, and any flock treatments she has shared in. Then register with a practice near the new home that treats ducks and other waterfowl, and write its number, plus the after-hours route, into the flock file. Pekins put considerable weight through their legs and feet, and a new vet meeting a lame Pekin for the first time should be reading her history rather than starting from the limp — which is only possible if the registration and the records both arrived before she did.
Her weight, laying, and identity page at the new pool
Individual records give the flock file its value. Start her page at the new address with a weight taken on arrival week, her recent laying pattern from the old garden, feed type, and a note of the setup she has landed in — pool or shallow water access, house, run surface, and flock companions. Pekins gain and carry weight quickly, so that arrival baseline is the comparison every later condition check depends on, and a post-move laying pause can be judged against her real output instead of a guess. Add her distinguishing details: a leg band number if she wears one, bill or feather quirks, temperament notes. In a small white flock, 'the Pekin with the leg strain last spring' only stays findable if the file says which bird, by band, that was.
Deliveries, helpers, and the single current flock file
Finish with the working documents: feed and bedding delivery accounts moved to the new address with access notes, egg-sale or egg-box arrangements updated if your address appears on them, and the name and number of a duck-capable sitter or neighbour recorded in the file. Replace the coop copy of the flock sheet with the new-address version so evening lock-up runs on current details, and keep the old address on a cover note until each registry and the vet confirm the change. Brought together as her KinsLe Pet Passport, a Pekin duck's records form one portable packet, so a vet visit, a sitter's weekend, or an official query all begin from her complete, current file at the new address.