Thank you so much, looks like when little Lucy is 8 weeks old she and her 2 mums will be free to roam around the orchard and Donald will have to stay in the pen. Will feel sorry for him but it’s his own fault. I’ve tried to intricate them again this morning but he just won’t have it. Do you...
Lol no he’s not trying to mate her, he’s grabbing her wings and ripping the feathers from her back. Tonight I put him in with the girls while I could keep a eye on them to try and get him to be nice to little Lucy, he chased her all around the pen and into the hut then he stood at the entrance...
Little Lucy has now got a quack and no curl on her tail feather, so she is definitely a girl. But unfortunately every time l let Donald into the duck pen he attacks her and I have to step in and remove him, I even tried letting them all free range together but he just would t leave her alone...
I have 1 male runner (Donald) and 2 female runner ducks Daisy and Daphne. The females both started sitting so I left the eggs to see what would happen. To cut a long story short only one hatched. I call it little Lucy, hatched 15th May. Up until yesterday Donald accepted and protected little...