Flock questions

[FluffTheDuck]

Alright. I need to get this straight and see if this will work.
I have:
Two male Pekins
Two female Pekins
One male black Swedish
One female blue Swedish
One male Cayuga.
Aka 4 drakes 3 hens
Will this work?

 

[bruceha2000]

I know little about raising ducks but I think a description of the housing and ranging layouts would be important information to determine if they would work.

 

[FluffTheDuck]

Hmm I don’t know the exact dimensions of their pen because it was already there when I bought the place.
I’ll take a photo?

 

[FluffTheDuck]

 

[Mrs. K]

Maybe, I think that you are stretching the possibility, and I would have a plan B...C...D.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Having kept pekin, Swedish and Cayuga at the same time.....I really think you need ....

A. Less males
B. Separate pens (pekin males are huge and very pushy about mating)

A Swedish will be smallest and definitely not able to withstand so many males.

Is there a reason you plan on so many males?

 

[FluffTheDuck]

Having kept pekin, Swedish and Cayuga at the same time.....I really think you need ....

A. Less males
B. Separate pens (pekin males are huge and very pushy about mating)

A Swedish will be smallest and definitely not able to withstand so many males.

Is there a reason you plan on so many males?

Okay.

I already have all these ducks. And if males start bad bad fighting (worst case scenario fighting) there is a neighbor nearby with a pond who takes in ducks. So I will give my youngest male Pekin to her. She locks them in at night and feeds them and if she has too many males she buys more females. If an even worse case scenario happens after the Pekin gets donated I will also donate Oliver the Cayuga to her.

 

[chrissynemetz]

I would be afraid that many drakes would seriously over mate your females. Ducks are VERY frisky boys

 

[Mrs. K]

If you are confining birds at all, the least number of boys is best. They just do not get along, no matter if they are raised together.

 

[FluffTheDuck]

Okay. I have two duck pens so I can put all my Pekins in that one and the others in the other?