mating season

Its my first spring (getting close to 1 year mark having my ducks) and I have 4 sibling runner drakes. They've done well together all year (they'll be 1 year in march or may) but now its gotten warmer in one day and they all switched up and are fighting hard together. The most submissive one...

Hi there! It’s been a while since I’ve posted on here. All my ducks are doing well and two of my hens have started laying! Fred, my Drake, has been good to the hens so far. He’s started to mate with them but he hasn’t been aggressive toward them. Sometime last week he’s started chasing me...

Hello, I am not the adult of my family and raise my ducks for being pets, They are three call duck drakes and they hatched in July of 2017 They have been fighting a lot lately (as expected for mating season) but I'm growing more and more concerned with their health and well being. Often times...

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...

We have a small flock of silver Appleyards (5 ducks/1 drake), and we're having some issues with our drake (Angus). At the end of May, we lost our other drake (Piglet), and, as expected, that shook up the whole pecking order balance. This is our first full year with ducks, so we're not sure...

We have recently moved to Grenada and acquired 1 peacock & peahen. We picked them up 2 days ago with 1 egg. Yesterday there were 2 more eggs. We have secured them in a shaded area My questions are:- How long do we need to keep them secured prior to letting them roam free? How would I know if the...

Im getting 3 female indian runners. They're going to be ducklings when I first get them so I have time before they lay eggs but i just need some tips since I've never owned a female before!! I have a pekin male here already. (yes they're going to be separate until they're bigger) I just need to...

Our ducks are an year old. Our 8 females have been consistently laying an average of 7 eggs a day since they started laying in January. Most days we would get 8 eggs. However, their production has been going down, 5-6 eggs is normal now; 8 eggs is rare. Today we only got 4 eggs. There hasn't...