I also have a dominant female duck (Lillie) who nips at Sweet Pea. I'm wondering if the drake (Daffy) ignores her because she is too young for him to mate with him.
Everyone get meal worms every morning. She still stays on the fringe of the flock. I have 14 chickens to gineas, and 7 ducks. She doesn't put up with the chickens bothering her. The young rooster (Jeffery)stays in her area during the day. At night he sleeps on a perch along with the other...
I have a 3 and a half month old pekin duck. I hatched her in an incubator. I bonded with a young leghorn rooster. I now have the two of them in with the rest of the ducks and chickens. The chickens appear to accept the young rooster but the other ducks do not seem to want the young duck...
I bought, what looks like a leghorn rooster about a month ago. He is only 5 inches tall to the top of his head. He does not cluck has all his feathers and still peeps. I was told he was at least 6 weeks old when I got him. About the same time I got him I hatched a duckling and she is bigger...
I have a pekin and a mallard females, they suddenly stopped laying. I had two drakes and one got bit by a rattler and died about a month ago. Could this be the reason they stopped laying?
I have to ducks purchased at the same time. One is a Peking and the other is a mallard, both females. The Peking is 2 1/2 times the size of the mallard. The Peking (Lilly) has been laying for over a week. The Malard (Blossom) does not look big enough to lay. They are the same age. Is there...
This is the first time I have had chickens and ducks. I got all of them a day old. I named all 8 chickens and 2 ducks. the chickens appear to be all female. But the ducks I started calling Daisy and Daffney are now Donald (Mallard) and maybe Daffy. We are unsure of the sex of the White Puff...