4 drakes and 1 duck! help!

[Trisseh]

maybe i’ll try that... but that would be atleast three different pens my parents will need to build

Do you free range your birds? It -might- work if the birds are out in the yard freely during the day and just having a house for the geese to go in at night. No pen necessarily needed. A good friend of mine does this with her birds, except the smaller birds don’t go out at the same time as the geese. During the day the geese are free to patrol her yard and put up in their house at night. If your other birds are penned and you have enough space to let the geese out, without the threat of major predators, you may he able to take a calculated risk. Although personally, I would add one type at a time and get it right before bringing in any new birds. Like, figure out your current duck situation, get the ratio settled out so you don’t wind up with a dead female from overbreeding, and then move on to your call duck pen. Remember that calls don’t stick around like the heavyweights, and they’re much smaller. Then, if everyone is copacetic and there are no homicides, and you still want to add geese, you can look into that. There’s nothing wrong with taking it slowly to make sure it’s right from the beginning. Avoid the heart break of your favorite little duck being torn to pieces because it got too close to the goose nest, when they’re all penned together in too small a space with raging hormones.

 

[Isaac 0]

I have quite a bit of experience keeping geese and Calls, they can't be housed together at night or serious damage will be inflicted to the Calls, this is especially true during springtime, but, in some case's (Like mine) they can be housed with each other during the day, that is assuming each species has an adequate enough space to roam, and you have a correct ratio for each species.

It all depends, but I wouldn't recommend someone keeping them housed/run together because there is quite a bit of work involved in doing so.

 

[Duck mommy 2019]

Do you free range your birds? It -might- work if the birds are out in the yard freely during the day and just having a house for the geese to go in at night. No pen necessarily needed. A good friend of mine does this with her birds, except the smaller birds don’t go out at the same time as the geese. During the day the geese are free to patrol her yard and put up in their house at night. If your other birds are penned and you have enough space to let the geese out, without the threat of major predators, you may he able to take a calculated risk. Although personally, I would add one type at a time and get it right before bringing in any new birds. Like, figure out your current duck situation, get the ratio settled out so you don’t wind up with a dead female from overbreeding, and then move on to your call duck pen. Remember that calls don’t stick around like the heavyweights, and they’re much smaller. Then, if everyone is copacetic and there are no homicides, and you still want to add geese, you can look into that. There’s nothing wrong with taking it slowly to make sure it’s right from the beginning. Avoid the heart break of your favorite little duck being torn to pieces because it got too close to the goose nest, when they’re all penned together in too small a space with raging hormones.

I have quite a bit of experience keeping geese and Calls, they can't be housed together at night or serious damage will be inflicted to the Calls, this is especially true during springtime, but, in some case's (Like mine) they can be housed with each other during the day, that is assuming each species has an adequate enough space to roam, and you have a correct ratio for each species.

It all depends, but I wouldn't recommend someone keeping them housed/run together because there is quite a bit of work involved in doing so.

it doesn’t even matter anymore. the people who were suppose to watch and take care of my drakes just told me one of them is dead.

 

[Isaac 0]

Sorry for your loss, , what happened?

 

[Duck mommy 2019]

Sorry for your loss, , what happened?

he got killed by a raccoon yesterday they said, but they didn’t notice until today. he was only even at the farm for a few days. i’ll be going and taking my other duck back

 

[MGG]

I'm so sorry! Thats horrible. Sounds like thet aren't watching them very well if they didn't even notice until today. Sorry for your loss.

 

[Trisseh]

Sorry to hear about your poor boy.

 

[TomCahalan]

it’s not really my fault i ended up with so many drakes

Of course it is. You need to take responsibility for your flock composition. Ducks don't just randomly find their way into your coop. If you take on the responsibility for an animal's life, you have a duty to give it a decent life, or a decent death. Treat your animals with respect.

 

[Duck mommy 2019]

Of course it is. You need to take responsibility for your flock composition. Ducks don't just randomly find their way into your coop. If you take on the responsibility for an animal's life, you have a duty to give it a decent life, or a decent death. Treat your animals with respect.

i didn’t know they were all drakes, and i would never kill my own ducks. that’s not respect.