Cmiller1122
Chirping
- Aug 25, 2022
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I see a lot of posts about drakes fighting eachother over mates, but barely any posts about my specific situation. My Peking drake was limping yesterday, and today my other two drakes (a khaki and a mallard/Rouen) were actively trying to kill him. I separated the Peking, but later found out that he was sticking his whole neck out of the fence and letting those two drakes attack and eat him. There was blood everywhere and Peking now has major bill wounds! and I’ve since then had to double fence the area. I’m just confused at why the Peking who was clearly injured would allow the others to attack him. Is it normal for drakes to “eat the weak one”?
Editing to reply to the most asked question:
These ducks were all raised together from two days old . We had too many males so we gave some away to a lady with a huge pond and we are slowly adding more hens but had to stop for the winter.
They free-ranged in our backyard and only go in the pen at night so the hens can lay eggs in one place. They have always been kind to each other even during mating. They have 4 watering holes and we give them supplemental scratch feed, oyster shell, and fruits and veggies often. We only have two laying females because the others still haven’t matured yet as they were added to the flock later and weren’t raised together. 7 ducks total: 3 male , 4 females (until spring when we can order more) . We have a Peking couple, a khaki couple, one mallard drake, and two female runners.
The only thing different about their lives was that Carl, the large male Peking had a limp and was having a hard time walking one day, and the next day the males were chomping at his head and throat. That’s when I had to separate them and then double fence because Carl kept sticking his head through the first fence.
Attaching a photo of Carl after we cleaned him up
Editing to add AGAIN: I took some advice and put Maxine (our female peking) in the isolated pen with Carl and they hopped in to pond and started humping….so I am thinking that this was about a female all along and the limp was a non-related incident. I think the other males wanted Maxine and knew she was Carl’s. Now I have to worry about if I will ever be able to have them all together ever again?
Editing to reply to the most asked question:
These ducks were all raised together from two days old . We had too many males so we gave some away to a lady with a huge pond and we are slowly adding more hens but had to stop for the winter.
They free-ranged in our backyard and only go in the pen at night so the hens can lay eggs in one place. They have always been kind to each other even during mating. They have 4 watering holes and we give them supplemental scratch feed, oyster shell, and fruits and veggies often. We only have two laying females because the others still haven’t matured yet as they were added to the flock later and weren’t raised together. 7 ducks total: 3 male , 4 females (until spring when we can order more) . We have a Peking couple, a khaki couple, one mallard drake, and two female runners.
The only thing different about their lives was that Carl, the large male Peking had a limp and was having a hard time walking one day, and the next day the males were chomping at his head and throat. That’s when I had to separate them and then double fence because Carl kept sticking his head through the first fence.
Attaching a photo of Carl after we cleaned him up
Editing to add AGAIN: I took some advice and put Maxine (our female peking) in the isolated pen with Carl and they hopped in to pond and started humping….so I am thinking that this was about a female all along and the limp was a non-related incident. I think the other males wanted Maxine and knew she was Carl’s. Now I have to worry about if I will ever be able to have them all together ever again?
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he doesn’t seem to be limping today, it looks more like a normal waddle. He seems a lot happier with Maxine with him. We are considering getting rid of our other two males…however they are extremely beloved pets and come in the house often so it’s a difficult thing to think about.
