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Thank you all for your replies. I separated them again last night and she got attacked again as soon as they were let out this morning and is currently hiding under a bush. Our 3 runners are not related, but hatched together in our incubator, have been happy together for their 3 years and...

Very odd indeed!! That's a good thought that there maybe something wrong with her - it's brought back a distant memory for me of a friend who had a young chicken being picked on by the others. It turned out that it had a tumour on it's head.

I really don't think it is. I know how vicious duck sex can seem, but he is truely chasing her away and guarding his other girls. He's not trying to pin her down to mate, just attacking and feather pulling. We've kept ducks for nearly 10 years and I've never seen anything like this!

No, these are proper attacks and he chases her away whenever she gets too close to his current favoured girls. She is definately being ostracised

We have 4 ducks - 1 elderly female campbell, 2 female runners and 1 male runner. They have all lived happily together for 3+ years, but in the last few days the runner drake has started attacking one of the female runners! It is nothing to do with mating and he chases her and grabs hold of any...