aggressive drake

  1. KathiQuacks

    Sweet drake suddenly harassing all the females. Do I need to rehome him?

    Hello everyone. At the moment, we have 6 drakes and 5 hens. I know, the ratio is horrible. Each girl is paired off with a different boy, so there’s only one drake who has no partner, though he doesn’t seem to mind this. I assumed, with everyone else having a partner, there would be no issue…...
  2. A

    Do I intervene or let them work it out?

    Hi everyone, I currently have nine ducks, two of which are males. They always got along just fine, but now that they’re over 4 months old they fight. Anytime they are together there is a brawl, and my Pekin injured the Rouen during their last fight. I had to keep Ralph in the hospital wing for...
  3. gusandsienna

    Hello everyone! Need advice on my 2 year old female duck

    Hello everyone, finally decided to join this community! Turns out my 2 y.o. female duck can't walk after my heavy drake overbred her. This happened about a week ago, we found her inside their swimming pool, barely moving. Took her out and both have been separated since then. She had some...
  4. T

    Aggressive duck mating; drake attacking hen; pulling out feathers and causing bleeding

    Hey all! We have one drake and three females. He is very aggressive when trying to mate with the same duck. He pulls her feathers out to the point of exposed raw skin and bleeding skin. I crate him separately at night but I’m at my wits end and thinking of re-homing him. Anything else I can do...
  5. hadiws12

    Melatonin Treatment for a Call Duck

    I have an ~7 month old male call duck who has been aggressively trying to breed almost constantly for the last two months or so. I've had to separate him from the rest of my birds, and I'm trying to find a way to reintegrate him back into my flock without him beating the rest of the birds up. (I...
  6. B

    Aggressive male duck

    I have a 2yr old rouen male duck has just started being aggressive to anyone I don't know why he was sweet and loving until now he is only one now we just recently moved and now have a swimming pool first he would get in the pool with the kids and swim with them but he will attack the kids no...
  7. hlwoods

    Aggressive male Pekin- *need advice!*

    I NEED ADVICE! My flock consists of 6 ducks: 1 male pekin, 2 female pekins, 2 female Welsh Harlequins, and 1 female Buff Orpington. They were all raised together since they were 3 days old and then around 6 months of age, my male Pekin, Donald, decided he doesn't like the two Welsh Harlequin...
  8. Joanna Ryder

    abrasive male duck with specific female duck

    hello all this will be my first post :) so i have 7 ducks and 55 chickens, and yes they all have names and i can tell 95% of them apart ;) .... anyway i’ve had to separate some of the ducks due to one of the male ducks being extreamly aggressive with one of the females ... everyone else gets...
  9. ladykalee

    Aggressive Drake Please Help!

    I bought three ducklings in March and it turned out I had two drakes and one female. I ordered two more females to even this out a bit and now have the three originals at 5 months and the babies at 7 weeks. My older three get along fabulously. My created pekin male is the problem. He chases me...
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