Ducks and their sexual aggression.

[lina500]

Oh those hormones, if you'd feel better separating him then by all means do. Drakes are so aggressive when mating some worse than others. and seems first 1-3 yrs they are at their worst. Here mating season is over in the fall. How about your geese do they try and intervene? my geese will pile around the offensive drake and can sometimes run him off, they don't like any hanky panky going on in their yard. If he is injuring them then he dif needs to have some time out.

I wish the geese would intervene! Sometimes they stand around squawking, but mostly they just act like big babies. They're even scared of the tiny disabled chicken that lives in our yard.

Today I put the drake on his own for a few hours, and within five minutes of letting him out he was attacking one of the girls again. He seriously does not stop unless he is napping, it takes up the great majority of his day and the ducks have bald spots on their necks where he holds them down. One of them is very unhappy about it, too. I will feel bad locking him up for the next month, but I have seriously reached my limit of how much abuse I can stand to see him give my girls.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I wish the geese would intervene! Sometimes they stand around squawking, but mostly they just act like big babies. They're even scared of the tiny disabled chicken that lives in our yard.

Today I put the drake on his own for a few hours, and within five minutes of letting him out he was attacking one of the girls again. He seriously does not stop unless he is napping, it takes up the great majority of his day and the ducks have bald spots on their necks where he holds them down. One of them is very unhappy about it, too. I will feel bad locking him up for the next month, but I have seriously reached my limit of how much abuse I can stand to see him give my girls.

I believe if any of my drakes were acting like that they would be locked up too. My geese rule over everyone chickens/ducks all but 1 drake who finally put them in their place.

 

[lina500]

The drake has gotten so aggressive that he goes after the geese and always wins, they just run away. The geese make a lot of noise but never seem to have much fight in them. They're scared of the drake, the disabled chicken, the neighbor's rooster, and one of our female ducks 50% of the time. The only one they can really lord it over is our small female duck.

 

[Miss Lydia]

The drake has gotten so aggressive that he goes after the geese and always wins, they just run away. The geese make a lot of noise but never seem to have much fight in them. They're scared of the drake, the disabled chicken, the neighbor's rooster, and one of our female ducks 50% of the time. The only one they can really lord it over is our small female duck.

If you have a gander and I am pretty sure you do, just wait for breeding season that drake may get his comeuppance then. I don't let the geese grab any ducks or chickens when I am around I use the water hose in a surprise attack to get their attention off of them, but My drake only has to come around where they are and they all move away. Your geese are young I think things will change once they become adults. My adult gander will even stand up to Mr. Drake during goose breeding season.