Jessi1210
Chirping
I have a 4 month old Muscovy drake- felix.
Lately he has been charging after us (the humans who live here) and biting.
He had a brother- however poor Henry injured himself and passed away about a week ago
He's in a large enclosure with 6 chickens and 6 other ducks- they are younger than him, males and females.
He attempts to make the chickens and usually only attacks when we try to break that up.
However now he has started charging me when I go in to feed or water them he used to be so docile!
I know some of it could be sexual aggression i assume. And I know I need to have at least 3-4 females per drake. Which is why I purchased the other 6, I hope that they were girls. It's looking like at least two are, maybe four.
(It's hard to find sexed ducklings here)
They are too young for him to be mating 2 of them are about 3 months and the others are a little over 2 months.
Is there anything I can do to curb his aggression? It's becoming a real problem.
Lately he has been charging after us (the humans who live here) and biting.
He had a brother- however poor Henry injured himself and passed away about a week ago
He's in a large enclosure with 6 chickens and 6 other ducks- they are younger than him, males and females.
He attempts to make the chickens and usually only attacks when we try to break that up.
However now he has started charging me when I go in to feed or water them he used to be so docile!
I know some of it could be sexual aggression i assume. And I know I need to have at least 3-4 females per drake. Which is why I purchased the other 6, I hope that they were girls. It's looking like at least two are, maybe four.
(It's hard to find sexed ducklings here)
They are too young for him to be mating 2 of them are about 3 months and the others are a little over 2 months.
Is there anything I can do to curb his aggression? It's becoming a real problem.