drake behavior

This isn’t really a problem - I’m more confused than anything, and would love some insight. My drake, Cherry, loves his pond, and I don’t blame him. It’s around 5 / 6 acres worth of water, with tons of mud, pondweed, fish, bugs - a duck’s dream. He also loves his girls. I got Cherry 2 hens of...

I have a Rouen male around 5-6 months old. The last couple of days when he's foraging, I've heard him make this sequence of squirty fart sounds like he's trying to poop but nothing comes out...four or five little squelchy sounds in a row. I've also noticed he's started displaying mating behavior...

Meet Vanilla, a year old fawn runner drake. He's king of the duck world in the flock. Granted he's the only drake now and only has one female, Chocolate, but don't let that distract you. He used to have to vie for her attention. Had to fight his friends to prove he was the big drake. But that's...

I have 2 drakes, Bumblebee and Honeybee. We hatched Bumblebee alone out of a egg, and then got Honeybee 6~ months later. Bumblebee keeps trying to mate with me and it’s frustrating. i heard its a lonely thing but for some reason Honeybee’s presence did not help. Females are not an option, and...

I have 3 female ducks, 3 hens, and 1 duck drake. Unfortunately, the drake is in his first mature spring, and harasses all of the girls– including the chickens. It has been quite stressful for me, and all of the females, in attempt to defend them from his advances. I will be moving soon and will...

Hi, all! I'll try to keep this short... after one of my older Runner girls passed last spring, we got three new female ducklings, which we raised separate from the remaining two (a female and a drake) Runners until they were old enough. (All three ducklings were supposed to be Runners, but one...

So I currently have 5 Khaki cambells. 3 Hens, 2 Drakes. I also have 10 Pekins. I plan on keeping 6 ducks all together, 1 Drake and 5 hens. So my question is which of the two Cambell Drakes should I keep? One of them has a light yellow-green bill and two hens that follow him around, the second...

It doesn't happen every day, but maybe once a week. My Drake goes flappy, gets the zoomies, and tries to stick his breast into the water bowl. There's a lot of beak opening and running in circles. He has two water sources out of the coop that he can fit his whole body in and get way more zoomie...

So today was my first attempt at mixing my 4 new female ducklings with my 2 current adult ducks (one female pekin, one male khaki Campbell). The ducklings are nearly 2 months old now and fully feathered. For the last 4 weeks, the ducklings have been living in their own temporary pen within the...

I have young muscovys who when they get pet by me or its like a high energy moment, they start like 'vibrating' or 'shaking' their head before like pouncing at me or or other ducks. Its mostly the drakes that do this. Is this just them trying to dominate another duck/me or are they just in that...

I have a Rhode Island Red hen who is about 4 years. I moved about a year ago and unfortunately i lost 2 female ducks to predators we didn’t know were around. That left my one male duck with my flock of hens. He has shown a lot of interest in my Rhode Island Red hen, Lucy, and started trying to...

I’ve not been able to find anything about this online, but my adult male Pekin who is healthy and normally sized and can make the normal male duck noise as well will sometimes make a weird noise that I can only describe as a “honk”. He opens his bill wider for the honk and it sounds almost like...

Hello All, I have seven knew ducklings and I would like to know the best way to introduce the younger ducks to the two older free range ducks I have. I intend on free ranging all of them once the little ones get old enough. I took three female Pekin ducklings out yesterday and sat with them...

Okay so i’ve got a bit of weird one. So i had originally, in one pen, 1 mallard drake and 2 Pekin drakes. And in the other pen 3 Pekin females and 1 Black Swedish drake (all of these are young ducks i just didn’t want to put them in with all the males cause that’s a lot of testosterone, you...

I have a male and a female pekin, and a male and a female indian runner (4 total) The little guy(indian runner) is just so pesky to my female pekin and has been pecking at her everytime she tries to eat or drink. He tries to mate with her but he’s so much smaller than her so he never achieves...

hello! My 6 month old Pekin Drake has recently started chasing me everywhere! We have introduced a new female to the flock recently, now there are 3 ducks and him. Suddenly, he follows me closely everywhere, nips my toes and heels and is surprisingly less afraid of the hose :/ I treat it...

I have a call cross crested possibly drake unsure he is around 9 10 weeks old now and have noticed when holding him his head starts vibrating while im patting him then nudges my hand with his beak when i stop patting or will put his beak up my sleeve all while vibrating.... He wont come to me...

Hello BYC members, As always I'm in need of your expertise! I've posted a video of my three Pekin ducks, I hope you all can hear them as well, Mr. Rooster was rooing right in my ear. Can you all tell if my ducks are drakes? I started seeing these feathers curling up right before their...

Hi everyone! I've been reading these forums for months, but now I have a problem I could really use some help with!! I've had 1 drake and 3 hens (all Pekin) for about 6 months. Last week, two of the hens started laying eggs! It's winter, and these hens didn't lay eggs during the summer, so I...

Hello! I've got three ducklings (two which are sexed female and one straight run chocolate ancona) and while I'm certain two of them are female, I can't be 100% that my chocolate ancona is not a drake. I know that the coloration is sex-linked and the odds are in favor of a hen but the breeder I...