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I hope you can find your guys a good home!
Rehoming can be challenging.
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Good luck!
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I have been in your exact situation -- I went to a runner duck breeder who lives about an hour away here in Iowa. I thought I probably had room for three ducks, however, I chose four adorable two-day-old ducklings: three of the four turned out to be drakes. Many people talk about chicken math, but duck math is real for me.

My drakes, because they grew up together, I guess, got along fine with each other. But, as they got older, I worried about the lone hen. So I went back to the breeder and bought the one adolescent hen she had available. Then, a few weeks later, two more that were clearly hens. Imagine my surprise when Quinn, the original girl. seemed jealous of the drakes' attention to the new girls (and, I would have bought more hens then but there were only so many of the right age available that weren't being used for breeding or egg sales). All went well the first year, although I knew I should have had more hens.

Time marched on. One of the original drakes fell victim to a predator. And the two remaining boys turned into over-sexed fiends. So, I went back to the breeder -- who had gotten more adept at sexing babies, and I chose three more "hens." I brought in more housing. I expanded the fenced pen that they use when I'm not home to watch over them when free ranging.

Strangely, one of the "hens" was much quieter than the other two. Yup, Lane was another drake. The breeder kindly offered to trade him for an adolescent hen, but he had grown up with Sloane and Blair, and the three had created their own subflock that interacts with the main group during the day, but sleeps in its own house at night.

I have now given up trying to make the numbers work; I know there should be more hens, but ... They seemed to have finally worked this out among themselves.
 
Callender Girl said:
I have been in your exact situation -- I went to a runner duck breeder who lives about an hour away here in Iowa. I thought I probably had room for three ducks, however, I chose four adorable two-day-old ducklings: three of the four turned out to be drakes. Many people talk about chicken math, but duck math is real for me.

My drakes, because they grew up together, I guess, got along fine with each other. But, as they got older, I worried about the lone hen. So I went back to the breeder and bought the one adolescent hen she had available. Then, a few weeks later, two more that were clearly hens. Imagine my surprise when Quinn, the original girl. seemed jealous of the drakes' attention to the new girls (and, I would have bought more hens then but there were only so many of the right age available that weren't being used for breeding or egg sales). All went well the first year, although I knew I should have had more hens.

Time marched on. One of the original drakes fell victim to a predator. And the two remaining boys turned into over-sexed fiends. So, I went back to the breeder -- who had gotten more adept at sexing babies, and I chose three more "hens." I brought in more housing. I expanded the fenced pen that they use when I'm not home to watch over them when free ranging.

Strangely, one of the "hens" was much quieter than the other two. Yup, Lane was another drake. The breeder kindly offered to trade him for an adolescent hen, but he had grown up with Sloane and Blair, and the three had created their own subflock that interacts with the main group during the day, but sleeps in its own house at night.

I have now given up trying to make the numbers work; I know there should be more hens, but ... They seemed to have finally worked this out among themselves.
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Wow haha I’m so glad that they sorted it out for themselves. Yes we feel really bad having to separate them since they grew up together and have always been together. Sadly we don’t have a choice. We are also trying really hard not to expand ;) as we don’t have enough room for more than 6! Still, buying 2 hens would make it 3 to 3 and that would still be too many males @.@. Hopefully ours will work it out themselves as well lol
 

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