Duck social groups and separation....

[Ness44]

Hello everyone,
It’s been a while since I was last on, I’ve been busy retrieving my ducks who have started to fly away this is mainly due to the mating season and the fact I didn’t realise they could fly Appleyards can’t but Miniature ones can apparently. So the main issue is this, original mum duck, daddy duck and an older male hand out in one group. The younger female with two younger males in another. Our other young female has not come home but I have my fingers crossed . The remaining young female and one of the young boys are paired although she still gets pestered by the other young male and both young males will often try to gang up on the older female but she is well protected by her group. So, the question is do I keep the one young male who seems to have paired with the young female and just rehome the troublemaker or do I just rehome both young males? I don’t want to leave her on her own will she prefer to stay with her paired young male or would she just join in with the other group if they both go? What would you do? Sorry for all the confusing detail!!
Thank you all,
Vanessa

 

[Duck mommy 2019]

Hello everyone,
It’s been a while since I was last on, I’ve been busy retrieving my ducks who have started to fly away this is mainly due to the mating season and the fact I didn’t realise they could fly Appleyards can’t but Miniature ones can apparently. So the main issue is this, original mum duck, daddy duck and an older male hand out in one group. The younger female with two younger males in another. Our other young female has not come home but I have my fingers crossed . The remaining young female and one of the young boys are paired although she still gets pestered by the other young male and both young males will often try to gang up on the older female but she is well protected by her group. So, the question is do I keep the one young male who seems to have paired with the young female and just rehome the troublemaker or do I just rehome both young males? I don’t want to leave her on her own will she prefer to stay with her paired young male or would she just join in with the other group if they both go? What would you do? Sorry for all the confusing detail!!
Thank you all,
Vanessa

are these your first ducks? we just got ducks last year and have learned ducks don’t “pair”. it’s best to have either all of one gender or 3 females per male.

 

[Knighstar679]

are these your first ducks? we just got ducks last year and have learned ducks don’t “pair”. it’s best to have either all of one gender or 3 females per male.

Sometimes they do pair. Mine have paired off. Courage is paired with Willamina, and Houdini is Paired with Ebony. While Courage is top duck they really only muddle around with their paided duck. It sometimes has to do with who they grew up with.

But like wise many ducks can adapt to new social dynamics as well.

 

[Ness44]

Sometimes they do pair. Mine have paired off. Courage is paired with Willamina, and Houdini is Paired with Ebony. While Courage is top duck they really only muddle around with their paided duck. It sometimes has to do with who they grew up with.

But like wise many ducks can adapt to new social dynamics as well.

Thank you so much, I’m starting to realise there isn’t really one rule to follow with ducks I have decided to keep the original 2 males and a nice small holding nearby is taking the 2 younger males! My missing girl flew home this morning so I’m not taking any chances, thanks again x

 

[Ness44]

are these your first ducks? we just got ducks last year and have learned ducks don’t “pair”. it’s best to have either all of one gender or 3 females per male.

Hello and thank you for your post, I have decided to keep the original males and rehome the young ones, sad to see them go but now the missing female is back I don’t want to take any chances, evening out the numbers should help fingers crossed