Duck with Dissociative Identity Disorder

[Seven_Hale]

I have a Pekin drake that lost its companion (twice) as a ducking. He ended up around chickens for the first few months. He even survived a raccoon bite that has given him the name ‘Scarface’. It was a traumatic first few months for the little guy.
Finally I was able to get some other ducklings (it’s how I ended up with a dozen- or so I tell myself LOL) but then he’d have nothing to do with them. He’d only stay with the chickens he came to the farm with. In the barnyard, the coop, everywhere they went, he went. When the ducklings were outside, he would completely shun them. As they got older, he SLOWLY warmed up. They are almost a year now, and he will FINALLY stay with his own, but every now and then I see him trying to chase down one of his old hen friends and will even tried to mount them. (It’s not really often, but...)
Will he ever just be a duck? Or am I going to have to quarantine him and his company away from my chickens so he doesn’t hurt any of them?

 

[2 many chickens]

Yeah, I'd keep him away from the chickens and put him with his own kind.
Drakes can really injure a chicken trying to mate them.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Not only injure but kill,chickens are not made for mating with a drake. He’ll bond to the ducks give him time.

 

[Seven_Hale]

That’s what I was afraid of. I hate to pen them up when their is so much room for them to wander, (they generally have free reign of many acres) but I just don’t see how else to get him to completely reassociate with just the ducks.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I had to do this with my geese, My gander was hatched here by a Muscovy ducks and of course he bonded to her And the other female Muscovy's. It wasn't too bad a situation because being water fowl they mated and no one was hurt. Then I decided to bring in a female goose for my gander. Well he wanted nothing to do with her would run her off every time she tried to follow him. He only wanted his ducks. So I had to separate him with the female goose I even had to put up a barrier so he couldn't see the ducks. It took close to 3 months before he finally decided she was the love of his life. Breeding season sealed the deal. It takes time but now my gander hasn't anything to do with the ducks And all my flock forages on little over Half acre together, this is ducks chickens and geese. So once your drake accepts the ducks as his flock and breeds with them He will probably forget all about the chickens you just have to give it time.