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- May 27, 2020
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My nearly three year old Mallard bantam still won't allow the blue fawn drake I introduce to them two weeks ago to breed any of the female ducks.
He breeds the mallard hen he came with, and attempts to force the rouen hen to copulate (this rouen is the absolute best friend of my dominant mallard hen)
The drake is about 8 months old, and i want to breed him to my grey mallard, to start a founding stock for pet quality blue fawn mallard bantams, but this hen is already 3 years old pretty much, so I do not want to waste too much time while her fertility is still good. Also this hen has not layed yet this year, and will likely start soon, will this likely change things? when the drake mounts a hen, the dominant hen comes over and bites him on the breast area and tugs on him, as if to pull him off the hen. she will intimdate him if she sees any sort of courtship body language out of him, but as of now he only seems to whistle at "his" young mallard hen(same age as him, 8 months) The dominant mallard will aggressively follow the drake and nip ant him when he tries to mount the rouen hen, if he gets to mount or not. She is generaly dominantly agressive to him, but is not this way to her favorite friend (the rouen) and is slightly less pushy of the young mallard hen.
Will this behavior likely change soon, when should I expect him to be able to actively breed all three duck hens, he as only been in the flock for two weeks, (they were quarrentined away from the flock) Should she be more receptive after she starts laying for the year, do I likely have to wait until during fall when hens choose new drakes? Will this just sort itself out in a few weeks-months once the call drake and his mallard hen are more established? Do I have to take him away and do the 10 days of seperation and do a re-inroduction and hope that time around he is dominant?
Also, If a blue fawn drake was bred to a snowy hen, would that still produce some blue fawn ducklings? or just greys that are het snowy?
He breeds the mallard hen he came with, and attempts to force the rouen hen to copulate (this rouen is the absolute best friend of my dominant mallard hen)
The drake is about 8 months old, and i want to breed him to my grey mallard, to start a founding stock for pet quality blue fawn mallard bantams, but this hen is already 3 years old pretty much, so I do not want to waste too much time while her fertility is still good. Also this hen has not layed yet this year, and will likely start soon, will this likely change things? when the drake mounts a hen, the dominant hen comes over and bites him on the breast area and tugs on him, as if to pull him off the hen. she will intimdate him if she sees any sort of courtship body language out of him, but as of now he only seems to whistle at "his" young mallard hen(same age as him, 8 months) The dominant mallard will aggressively follow the drake and nip ant him when he tries to mount the rouen hen, if he gets to mount or not. She is generaly dominantly agressive to him, but is not this way to her favorite friend (the rouen) and is slightly less pushy of the young mallard hen.
Will this behavior likely change soon, when should I expect him to be able to actively breed all three duck hens, he as only been in the flock for two weeks, (they were quarrentined away from the flock) Should she be more receptive after she starts laying for the year, do I likely have to wait until during fall when hens choose new drakes? Will this just sort itself out in a few weeks-months once the call drake and his mallard hen are more established? Do I have to take him away and do the 10 days of seperation and do a re-inroduction and hope that time around he is dominant?
Also, If a blue fawn drake was bred to a snowy hen, would that still produce some blue fawn ducklings? or just greys that are het snowy?
