Bully duck

[Mshafer01]

I recently added a 3 yr old call female to my flock. She is super skittish with people and my other ducks attack her. I have her separated with my black runner female and they get along fine. It doesn't look like normal pecking order behavior. 1 duck grabs her wings and pulls. I am getting 3 ducklings and 2 goslings (all 2 days old) in a few weeks and was wondering if I keep her with the ducklings and she accepts them, will they be her flock and provide enough protection until everyone settles down.

 

[FowlProtector]

I think you’re dealing with some tricky integration dynamics. The aggression your adult call duck is feeling from the others might be because she’s feeling territorial or dominant. If you introduce her to the ducklings and goslings slowly and with close supervision, they might become her protectors. But you’ll need to watch them closely, making sure the new call duck feels safe and not stressed out. It might take some time for everyone to get used to the new flock structure.

 

[Mshafer01]

Ty. I took a week off work to be with the new ducklings so I can see how it goes

 

[ruthhope]

I recently added a 3 yr old call female to my flock. She is super skittish with people and my other ducks attack her. I have her separated with my black runner female and they get along fine. It doesn't look like normal pecking order behavior. 1 duck grabs her wings and pulls. I am getting 3 ducklings and 2 goslings (all 2 days old) in a few weeks and was wondering if I keep her with the ducklings and she accepts them, will they be her flock and provide enough protection until everyone settles down.

I agree with @FowlProtector , you’re dealing with some integration dynamics. I recommend always having a period of see-no-touch when integrating new duck into a flock. I use a minimum of 1 week with the newbies partitioned off from the flock during the day and sleeping in fenced off compartments or dog-crates in the duck house. My son has tried and been successful just adding a bonded pair of female pekins to his three pekins [2 females and a drake]. But I think he was lucky. We also spent about 5 weeks integrating another female. She was accepted by the female pekins within a week but it took a lot longer for the drake to accept her. He had to remain separate from the females at night for 5 weeks.

Wing biting is certainly pecking order behavior

 

[Mshafer01]

I did set up a separate area today. It's a small coop with a runner right beside the other run so they can see each other. My female runner is in there with her because she is very calm. We will just have to have everybody together when I'm with them and separate when I'm not until they settle down

 

[Mshafer01]

Update...let everyone out to use big pool and female call (we named her Missy) came out and got in pool. My bully duck (whose name is Salty) tried twice to go after her but my pekin (named Coconut) chased her off and stays by Missy now so I guess it's gonna work out. She still has her own area but we put a baby gate up that has a cat door small enough to keep other ducks out. In picture from front to back, Coconut, Beetle,
Wee-man, Peanut, Missy and Salty is in pool.