Drakes with chickens

[Money Pit Zoo]

So after weeks of hoping for two girls, I now know I have two 17 week old Pekin drakes. And one has become aggressive to me, charging and biting when I walk away. I am trying to rehome them, but I am going to guess that will take awhile since most people don’t want a couple of drakes. In the meantime, my question is this: the two ducks free range with a bunch of chickens (they have separate coops however), is it a ticking time bomb for them to try and mate with the chickens? Should I keep them separated to protect the chickens?
Incidentally, does anyone in the San Antonio TX area want a couple of drakes???

 

[KathiQuacks]

Oh, definitely separate them.. they will go after the chickens, and it won’t be pretty. I hope you can find a home for the boys. Here’s the Texas state thread if you’d like to post there as well.

 

[sourland]

It's probably an accident waiting to happen. I'd keep them separated.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

is it a ticking time bomb for them to try and mate with the chickens?

Were they raised together with and imprinted on the chickens or separately?

Together and the same age/imprinted makes it a faster ticking time bomb than if they're not imprinted.. but yes, it's an accident waiting to happen and avoidable.

Have you already tried your local craigslist, either the farm and garden or the pet section?

Realistically.. though possibly not ideally.. someone might even take them for harvest?

 

[HollowOfWisps]

Most definitely keep them separate from the hens! In some cases it can work if they have female ducks, but with no females to keep them satisfied a drake trying to mate a hen is 100% inevitable. I say this as someone who has peacefully kept chickens and ducks together in the past. My drakes showed no interest in the chickens because they were occupied. However, I recently had a predator attack take out my entire flock besides two drakes and a female duck. I have female ducklings ordered, but put my two drakes in my butcher rooster pen separate from my hens and female duck. I’m not worried about my drakes with my roosters considering my drakes weigh 4lbs and my roosters are English orpingtons that are almost as tall as turkeys and weigh 13-15lbs.

 

[Money Pit Zoo]

Realistically, yes they are probably going to end up someone’s dinner. They are my daughter’s beloved duckies though and she understands why they must go, but she wants to try and find them a home. If the one keeps attacking me, however, I won’t feel too much pain eating them myself.