6 week old ducks... OH MY!

[newduckie]

My 6 week old Pekins have found their voices so I knew it was time to figure out who was male and who was female. I got a blue marker and a red marker and caught each one . Marked their feet either red for girl and blue for boy. OH WOW.. I have 5 boys and only 1 girl.. what do I do now? This is not what I wanted to happen.

 

[newduckie]

I want to keep them but worry they will over take her. I have 3 older females and one older male already. Also 5 babies that are less than 4 weeks old so not sure what they are...

 

[bock]

They will hurt the female, so I would sell most of the males.

 

[froggie71]

Even with the older girls you have too many boys. We have 5 drakes with 12 girls (not counting our 3 new ducklings). We will see 3 drakes go after 1 duck at the same time. We see the boys go after each other to hurt each other quite a bit now that the hormones are raging. We've had 1 bad drake fight so far. We too have too many drakes.