1 Drake excluding and bullying my other Drake, what should I do?

[Bec]

I have a 3 year old Drake and a group of babies (4-5 months old) In that group there is 1 drake and 3 hens. The 3 year old drake won;t let poor Aubry anywhere near him and his girls! He chases the poor guy all over and poor Aubry has to sleep off by himself.
The older Drake, Willis, has always been out of the backyard with my goose, but when she went broody he was lonely so I let him in with the younger ones. Now all he does is breed and push Aubry away.

What should I do? For now I have him out of the fence with the goose again, but will he ever be allowed back in?

 

[greatestgrammie]

I use to have Peking Ducks. . . . long story short I ended up with 2 Drakes and 3 Hens.
One Drake was older. . . he had all of the girls though the younger Drake would follow like a love starved teenager but was always "booted out of the competition".
Of the 3 Hens,there was one particular Hen the older Drake seemed to prefer sooooooo I seperated them,putting the Older Drake with his preference and put the younger Drake with the 2 other Hens.
This worked great during mating season which for ducks seems to be all the time but heavier during the spring/summer season. When things settled down I allowed them to all be in the same pen and they seemed to keep the girls I gave each of the Drakes and they settled down.
Before seperating them,when the older Drake would mount a Hen,the younger Drake would take this time to pick on the Hen being mounted which caused damage to the Hen's head so seperating them resolved this issue.

 

[FenDruadin]

Drakes don't like competition, and three hens is not really enough to share.

Unfortunately, you will probably have to keep them separated, although some folks have good luck combining them eventually, so you could try again in a few weeks.

Good luck!

 

[goosedragon]

The strongest drake gets the ducks, just natures' way of improving the flock. There is a chance that as time goes on your young drake will return the favor and outcast the old drake. Either way your ducks are being bred by the best drake.

 

[Bec]

Thanks for all the advice! I went ahead and put him out and put one girl with him, but my this morning, she was back in , he is still out!

I will have to figure something else out!

 

[Becky89*]

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Same with my two Drakes Sebastion and Prince aka Father and son! Sebastion would always have the girls but then Prince would try to "have fun" with one or two when Sebastion's back was turned it never worked Prince was always chased away. I bought Prince a girl friend and they always stayed away from the other ducks after that Sebastion never even tried to take Melanie away from Prince.