We recently added some new ducks to our flock. They share the coop with the chickens at night (although the chickens stay up on the roosting areas and the ducks stay down below).
I have noticed that some of the chickens are starting to lose feathers on their backs and have some bare patches...
We have started to adjust our flock of ducks so that we have a good male to female ratio as in the past we became male heavy and they were abusing our female and unfortunately another male.
We have a pure mallard female who landed at our farm and decided to stay, a male Pekin, and two female...