Hello everyone. I have posted a couple times now about the struggles of having one hen and one drake (we didn't have this set-up by choice!), and our drake over mating the female (who is way way smaller than him). He is truly relentless, and to make matters worse, when they are free ranging...
Hi hi - curious, is November typically mating season for some of your ducks? I have a pekin drake and a female mallard, and the past week my drake has all of a sudden EXCESSIVELY been in the mood. Typically i'll go in the backyard every once in a while to see him trying to mate, but now i can't...
In a bit of a pickle. We wanted to introduce a bigger hen to our flock as our insanely huge pekin drake has been been fairly rough with our smaller mallard hen. We picked up the third duck from a farm that had a big flock of ducks and we picked her - a beautiful cayuga - because her "brothers"...
Hi there - we just added a beautiful cayuga hen to our flock (we already had one pekin and one mallard). We got her from a family and don't know how old she is, but she seems to be full grown but likely less than a year old. My male pekin takes his "guard duck" job very seriously so we are...
Hi everyone - new duck owner here! We got two un-sexed ducklings and of course our huge jumbo pekin turned out to be a male and our small mallard we are pretty sure is a female. They are several months old now and the pekin is regularly trying to mate with the mallard, and I’m so worried about...