Adding a second rooster - really tame but larger than my first one!

[Isadora]

yeah I'm pretty salty about it haha, I had arranged to pick them up and everything.

That was so rude of them.

 

[kerryb90]

That was so rude of them.

I thought so too!

 

[Monique Saun]

I've only been with chickens for a year but I've read that a male duck can literally rape a chicken due to the fact that ducks have an actual penis compared to roosters that don't. You may want to Google n check into that just to be sure. I'm sorry that person sold the breeding pair on you. That's just not right

 

[kerryb90]

I've only been with chickens for a year but I've read that a male duck can literally rape a chicken due to the fact that ducks have an actual penis compared to roosters that don't. You may want to Google n check into that just to be sure. I'm sorry that person sold the breeding pair on you. That's just not right

so far no issues that I've seen with my drakes being aggressive with my chickens, my drakes are of a more mellow breed and they all comingle nicely. good to watch out for, though - I had no idea!

and thank you, it was extremely frustrating because I was REALLY looking forward to adding them to my flock!

 

[Isadora]

so far no issues that I've seen with my drakes being aggressive with my chickens, my drakes are of a more mellow breed and they all comingle nicely. good to watch out for, though - I had no idea!

Just wanted to reiterate the concern about the drakes with the chickens. It's not so much a temperament issue of the drake's being aggressive with the hens... It's more of a physical incompatibility. Male ducks have an actual penis, whereas roosters do not. Chickens are not physically capable of mating with a drake. If a drake mates with a chicken, he can at the best injure her, and at the worst injure her badly enough that it kills her. There was actually a recent thread in the injuries/emergencies section of the chicken forum on it:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/duck-mated-chicken-chicken-injured.1455528/