Duck keepers who also have chickens.

[Anime2lover]

Google duckens... seriously! I was in shock at what I found. Apparently it can happen. There were some that looked like ducks with chicken feet and vice versa.

I have.

 

[house.of.ducks]

My cute little balls of peeping fuzz have arrived View attachment 1785176

They're so cute !! I've never kept chickens before but good luck and they are absolutely beautiful.

 

[AquaDuck]

Google duckens... seriously! I was in shock at what I found. Apparently it can happen. There were some that looked like ducks with chicken feet and vice versa.

That's terrifying

 

[AquaDuck]

Your ducks are gorgeous, and the new little ones are cutesies! I'm sure you're gonna love your new chickens. I started with chickens and added ducks 4 years ago. I have mine in the same area and coop and they don't interact much, just sorta live peacefully together.

Obvious differences are that chickens like to climb and roost, and are MUCH less messy. They like to dust bathe and aren't fond of water and rain.

 

[Thunderduck9]

My ducks and chickens do fine together,my rooster loves to hangout with the ducks and screams his lungs out if they go in the creek and leave him behind,he will walk all around the house calling them its funny as hell.

 

[Anime2lover]

My ducks and chickens do fine together,my rooster loves to hangout with the ducks and screams his lungs out if they go in the creek and leave him behind,he will walk all around the house calling them its funny as hell.

That does sound funny XD, mine could care less about my eucks.

 

[laurenhomer]

Hello - not sure if this is the right thread but I figured I would start here. I’ve currently got 4 hens, 3 three month old pullets and sadly today only one 1 year old Pekin drake. Last night I lost the other Pekin drake to an awful attack (suspect it was a raccoon). All winter the three ducks (lady duck was grabbed by a coyote earlier in the year) and 4 chickens lived together in the coop - before that and once the ice thawed the ducks lived in a separate pen right next to the chicken coop. After finding the poor lone ducky survivor this morning I put him in the chicken coop to be safe - theirs is much more predator proof. Well - as you might imagine the integration isn’t going all that well and I feel badly for the duck. He had a few spats with the low ranking adult leghorn (we call her a**hole) when he first went in to sort of establish boundaries and seemed to be a little aggressive toward all the chickens. I watched for a while and made sure there were some spots where they could get away from each other. Tonight when I went to check on them he was just standing sadly in the corner and would open his beak and hiss if any of the girls got near him. He lived in there with them all winter but had his ducky buddies and just seems very lost with out them. He was the low man in the ducky tribe and the poor thing took a lot of abuse from his aggressive drake room mate. Do you think in time he’ll get along with the hens or will he be aggressive with them? He’s probably still in shock after witnessing the awful attack but he did drink and I heard him in the coop on the grandpa feeder earlier this morning when he first joined the girls. Has anyone else gone through this? Any advise? Thanks

 

[Anime2lover]

Hello - not sure if this is the right thread but I figured I would start here. I’ve currently got 4 hens, 3 three month old pullets and sadly today only one 1 year old Pekin drake. Last night I lost the other Pekin drake to an awful attack (suspect it was a raccoon). All winter the three ducks (lady duck was grabbed by a coyote earlier in the year) and 4 chickens lived together in the coop - before that and once the ice thawed the ducks lived in a separate pen right next to the chicken coop. After finding the poor lone ducky survivor this morning I put him in the chicken coop to be safe - theirs is much more predator proof. Well - as you might imagine the integration isn’t going all that well and I feel badly for the duck. He had a few spats with the low ranking adult leghorn (we call her a**hole) when he first went in to sort of establish boundaries and seemed to be a little aggressive toward all the chickens. I watched for a while and made sure there were some spots where they could get away from each other. Tonight when I went to check on them he was just standing sadly in the corner and would open his beak and hiss if any of the girls got near him. He lived in there with them all winter but had his ducky buddies and just seems very lost with out them. He was the low man in the ducky tribe and the poor thing took a lot of abuse from his aggressive drake room mate. Do you think in time he’ll get along with the hens or will he be aggressive with them? He’s probably still in shock after witnessing the awful attack but he did drink and I heard him in the coop on the grandpa feeder earlier this morning when he first joined the girls. Has anyone else gone through this? Any advise? Thanks

Afraid I have not. Thpugh I suggest getting him some girls on his own, and keeping him permanently in the predator proof coop.