2 ducklings aggressively ganging up on my adult duck

[CayugaDuckMomOfTwo]

Some might know my situation, but long story short I lost one of my two beautiful, sweet Cayugas, Grace. Frankie has been grieving, and so I got her 2 friends for companionship. We tried to get 2 ducks, and hopefully that's what they are, and not drakes. Regardless, they are almost 6 weeks old so I've started integrating them with Frankie (10 mo old). The ducklings gang up on her and push her around the yard aggressively. They kick her out of sharing peas in a bowl, and the kid pool. I don't know how long I should let this behavior go on, or if there is hope it'll change over time. Frankie is nothing but sweet to them, and tries so hard to be friendly. It seems like the ducklings are getting more pushy by the day.
Any advice helps, thank you.

 

[Brooke_R]

Some might know my situation, but long story short I lost one of my two beautiful, sweet Cayugas, Grace. Frankie has been grieving, and so I got her 2 friends for companionship. We tried to get 2 ducks, and hopefully that's what they are, and not drakes. Regardless, they are almost 6 weeks old so I've started integrating them with Frankie (10 mo old). The ducklings gang up on her and push her around the yard aggressively. They kick her out of sharing peas in a bowl, and the kid pool. I don't know how long I should let this behavior go on, or if there is hope it'll change over time. Frankie is nothing but sweet to them, and tries so hard to be friendly. It seems like the ducklings are getting more pushy by the day.
Any advice helps, thank you.

I don’t know how to help but I’m sorry for your loss. I love their names. Please tell me to ducklings are Mallory and Brianna
Although they sound more like Brianna and Brianna

 

[Isadora]

Some might know my situation, but long story short I lost one of my two beautiful, sweet Cayugas, Grace. Frankie has been grieving, and so I got her 2 friends for companionship. We tried to get 2 ducks, and hopefully that's what they are, and not drakes. Regardless, they are almost 6 weeks old so I've started integrating them with Frankie (10 mo old). The ducklings gang up on her and push her around the yard aggressively. They kick her out of sharing peas in a bowl, and the kid pool. I don't know how long I should let this behavior go on, or if there is hope it'll change over time. Frankie is nothing but sweet to them, and tries so hard to be friendly. It seems like the ducklings are getting more pushy by the day.
Any advice helps, thank you.

When you say you've integrated them, did you just put them together without an introduction? That's usually where a lot of problems start, especially when there's not a whole lot of ducks in the picture.

 

[Quatie]

When integrating ducks, I always start with the look but no touch method. They are separated by fencing so they can get use to each other without hurting one another. You want to do this at least for a week, some take longer. Eventually they will lay down near each other along the fence.

I would actually say it is a good thing the little ones are more pushy. The adults can be pushy too and can sometimes seriously hurt the smaller ducks. To ease the problems set up two water and food locations, then they can't control all the food and water.

 

[Anime2lover]

When integrating ducks, I always start with the look but no touch method. They are separated by fencing so they can get use to each other without hurting one another. You want to do this at least for a week, some take longer. Eventually they will lay down near each other along the fence.

I would actually say it is a good thing the little ones are more pushy. The adults can be pushy too and can sometimes seriously hurt the smaller ducks. To ease the problems set up two water and food locations, then they can't control all the food and water.

Some might know my situation, but long story short I lost one of my two beautiful, sweet Cayugas, Grace. Frankie has been grieving, and so I got her 2 friends for companionship. We tried to get 2 ducks, and hopefully that's what they are, and not drakes. Regardless, they are almost 6 weeks old so I've started integrating them with Frankie (10 mo old). The ducklings gang up on her and push her around the yard aggressively. They kick her out of sharing peas in a bowl, and the kid pool. I don't know how long I should let this behavior go on, or if there is hope it'll change over time. Frankie is nothing but sweet to them, and tries so hard to be friendly. It seems like the ducklings are getting more pushy by the day.
Any advice helps, thank you.

Those behaviors are natural when introducing ducks, but you can lessen it by doing the see but no touch like mentioned above.

 

[CoriM]

Everything that Quatie said. I've introduced two sets of ducklings to my older girls and both times the ducklings chased the big ones, and intimidated them. Initially I always keep a see-through fence between the two groups. I let them graze in the yard together under my supervision so that they get used to each other. I don't allow the little ones to chase the big ones - as much as I can control it. Two water dishes and two food dishes. Little by little I give them more time together. It takes a couple months before they are fully comfortable. I just started letting my babies sleep together with my older ones, and took down my fences, and they are just over three months old. My last set was 4 months old when I fully incorporated the groups.

 

[CayugaDuckMomOfTwo]

Thank you all for the advice. I did the pen "look but don't touch" approach for a while. I'm glad Frankie, the adult, is being nice due to size, but hoping this gang up behavior comes to a halt. The ducklings go back in their brooder at night for another week or two. They have several kid pools and water bowls, but great advice for having multiple food/treat bowls too! This is only their 3rd no fence supervised meetings. I'm just a concerned mom. Thanks everyone. Hopefully it'll work out

 

[CayugaDuckMomOfTwo]

I should mention also that Frankie gets super excited to see them come out, and spends a lot of time next to their pen. Bless her heart, she even tries to forage next to them and makes soft giggles to be apart of their group. She even laid down with her neck stretched out over one of the pools, hoping one of the ducklings would play the same "game" her and Grace would play of dunk each other's head and giggle the whole time. I know it's a dominant behavior, but they were weird and loved taking turns dunking each other.

 

[CayugaDuckMomOfTwo]

I don’t know how to help but I’m sorry for your loss. I love their names. Please tell me to ducklings are Mallory and Brianna
Although they sound more like Brianna and Brianna

I went with Demeter (goddess that grieved over the loss of her daughter) and Kijora (duck god that cursed those that didn't respect a duck's soul if killed). I like where your head was at. Best show ever!!

 

[cheezenkwackers]

I recently introduced my two 7-week old duckling with my three adult female ducks. The youngsters do the same thing to my big ducks. But, every day it’s a little better. Mine are now sleeping together but I wouldn’t say they like each other. So, what your going through is normal and they should eventually get along.