a 4-year-old Jumbo Pekin. Pekin ducks are domestic ducks with white feathers and orange beaks and legs. And Matthews has raised them for more than 20 years in her Shakopee apartment.

A local water rescue team went on a duck chase Wednesday morning to rescue two pet ducks abandoned in Lake Ronkonkoma. The snowy white Pekin ducks, named Cheech and Chong by two volunteers, were ...

The mutations responsible for the white down feathers and larger bodies of the Pekin duck, an elite breed, have been identified, shedding light on how this breed was improved during domestication.