Are my ducks ready to go outside with the big ones?

[lovelyducklings]

I have 3 full grown pekin ducks, 2 female and one male. I want to make sure the younger ones will be able to handle themselves around the Adult male duck, hes kind of aggressive.

 

[Isaac 0]

If your drake is aggressive the ducklings shouldn't be put in with him until they are almost full-grown, you can surely try putting them together, but I doubt it'll work.

 

[Flockincrazy]

I have 3 full grown pekin ducks, 2 female and one male. I want to make sure the younger ones will be able to handle themselves around the Adult male duck, hes kind of aggressive.


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How old are they. They look big enough

 

[TomCahalan]

Never. Your new ducksling look like they are both drakes. You can't have three drakes with two ducks. Factor in the age/size descrepancy, and you are setting these two juveniles up for a lifetime of suffering.

 

[Isaac 0]

Never. Your new ducksling look like they are both drakes. You can't have three drakes with two ducks. Factor in the age/size descrepancy, and you are setting these two juveniles up for a lifetime of suffering.

The green coming on the face isn't really a good indicator of sex with WH, females have it to until they molt back into white.

 

[TomCahalan]

The green coming on the face isn't really a good indicator of sex with WH, females have it to until they molt back into white.

Oh thanks, I didn't know that. Are they welsh harlequins though? That head pattern looks a lot like the restricted mallard allele (found in appleyards).

 

[Isaac 0]

They look like WH to me.