3 of the shipped ducklings are drakes. So we will soon have 4 drakes to 20 females after we combine the flocks, then we'll process the hatched drakes or give pairs to friends. Our adult drake is kind of aggressive, I'm not sure I want multiples of him terrorizing the flock.
We've gotten ourselves into a big of a pickle. We have 7 adult Saxonys - 6 female, 1 drake - and 2 of them are sitting on a single mega-nest of >20 eggs. We believe the other females have been dropping eggs off in the nest every once in a while, but we quickly candled a dozen before Mama chased...
We're taking on 5 females and 1 male Saxony soon. But my husband and daughter are both like "But the Cayuga is soooo pretty!" And she got her puppy dog eyes from him and I'm sucker. So I'm wondering if I could add a female Cayuga to the flock. I don't want a drake because I don't want to mix...