Foot pad quality scores were influenced by age (Table 4). The proportion of ducks scored as 0 or 1 was different between d 7 and 21, d 21 and 32, and d 7 and 32 (P ≤ 0.006, Table 5). Ducks foot pad scores of 2 were notably different between d 7 and 21 and d 21 and 32 (P ≤ 0.008). An effect of location existed when foot pad quality was scored 2 with differences between all locations (P < 0.001, Table 4,5).