Duck Addicts Anonymous (DAA)

[Daphne_loves_mealworms]

It appears that one of the neighborhood cats did my ducks a favor.

 

[Daphne_loves_mealworms]

Raspberry and Puddin' spam.
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So stinking cute!

 

[Painted Calls]

Surely as hormones die down it'll get better.
What seemed to help me was kind of mixing up their territory. Like For example Maybe you let the new ones out to free range and put your others in the jail house for a day.
That way your newbies can kind of learn the ropes and be more confident.
Or when you get ready to introduce them you could put them in a completely neutral pen together in a different spot and see how it goes.

I opened the whole thing up yesterday. They fought for about 15 minutes with me griping and breaking it up the whole time. I was most afraid for the little girl, but it was the drake everyone jumped on. Even the chicken joined in on jumping him prison gang style. It was ridiculous. As soon as they'd all get off him, he'd go after one of them and it was on again. Little Raspberry just sat back and watched.

Don't mind dirty pool - I swear I clean it every evening.

They aren't allowed in the pool. Funniest part is that Pud (smallest brown) was never allowed in the pool either. Now she is.

 

[Bakbuk]

I opened the whole thing up yesterday. They fought for about 15 minutes with me griping and breaking it up the whole time. I was most afraid for the little girl, but it was the drake everyone jumped on. Even the chicken joined in on jumping him prison gang style. It was ridiculous. As soon as they'd all get off him, he'd go after one of them and it was on again. Little Raspberry just sat back and watched.

Don't mind dirty pool - I swear I clean it every evening.

They aren't allowed in the pool. Funniest part is that Pud (smallest brown) was never allowed in the pool either. Now she is.
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Duckies are crazy. Just nuts.

 

[Painted Calls]

So stinking cute!

Thank you!!

 

[Canadian Wind]

Don't mind dirty pool - I swear I clean it every evening.

I can see the ducks' feet in the water. It is NOT dirty! LOL!

 

[Painted Calls]

I can see the ducks' feet in the water. It is NOT dirty! LOL!

Good point!

 

[Daphne_loves_mealworms]

I opened the whole thing up yesterday. They fought for about 15 minutes with me griping and breaking it up the whole time. I was most afraid for the little girl, but it was the drake everyone jumped on. Even the chicken joined in on jumping him prison gang style. It was ridiculous. As soon as they'd all get off him, he'd go after one of them and it was on again. Little Raspberry just sat back and watched.

Don't mind dirty pool - I swear I clean it every evening.

They aren't allowed in the pool. Funniest part is that Pud (smallest brown) was never allowed in the pool either. Now she is.
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I’m glad that Pud can take advantage of being a part of the “in crowd”, at least for now! Of course the chicken joined in on the beat down! Silly birds!

 

[Painted Calls]

Progress!

 

[Daphne_loves_mealworms]

Progress!

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Everyone resting together peacefully?