Help my rooster is trying to mate with my ducks

[aart]

My rooster still mates my ducks

Mounting is not always for fertiliztion, could just be a dominance move.

 

[flwrldy]

Mounting is not always for fertiliztion, could just be a dominance move.

Ok I was thinking that too. Thank you!!

 

[loganreynolds13]

I think it's because the ducks are sexually matured and the hens aren't so he mates with them instead.

Chickens aren't the brightest animals so that's another reason too.

So how would you explain if the rooster were to be doing it even with sexually matured hens around.

 

[aart]

So how would you explain if the rooster were to be doing it even with sexually matured hens around.

Mounting is not always for fertiliztion, could just be a dominance move.

 

[Linda king]

Update! So they are going to be a-year-old my chickens and ducks, this week. My rooster still mates my ducks and so does the other female duck. At least it thinks it is.. I know they’re both hens because they both lay eggs.. one egg each every day. They’re Khaki Campbells.. It’s a mad poultry world.

Excuse me. This is an old thread but I’m sorry I have to ask. If your ducks lays everyday, how do they accomplish that since you also said you don’t have any male duck? Are they making the eggs by the rooster sleeping with them?

 

[NatJ]

Excuse me. This is an old thread but I’m sorry I have to ask. If your ducks lays everyday, how do they accomplish that since you also said you don’t have any male duck? Are they making the eggs by the rooster sleeping with them?

Female birds lay eggs even if a male does not mate with them.

Mating determines whether the egg is fertile or not.

For a chick or duckling to grow inside the egg and hatch, the egg must be fertile (a male mated with the female before she laid the egg), and then the egg must be kept warm in an incubator or under a broody hen for the right length of time (three weeks for chickens, four weeks for ducks). The chick or duckling spends those weeks growing inside the warm egg, and then hatches out of the egg.

 

[Linda king]

Female birds lay eggs even if a male does not mate with them.

Mating determines whether the egg is fertile or not.

For a chick or duckling to grow inside the egg and hatch, the egg must be fertile (a male mated with the female before she laid the egg), and then the egg must be kept warm in an incubator or under a broody hen for the right length of time (three weeks for chickens, four weeks for ducks). The chick or duckling spends those weeks growing inside the warm egg, and then hatches out of the egg.

Wow!!!! Thanks sooo much for the insight. Here I am thinking without males they can't create eggs . The issue I was really having was similar to op, what could cause a rooster to want to mount a duck and also a peahen

 

[nuthatched]

Excuse me. This is an old thread but I’m sorry I have to ask. If your ducks lays everyday, how do they accomplish that since you also said you don’t have any male duck? Are they making the eggs by the rooster sleeping with them?

Egg laying is just ovulation, males are not need for that process.

 

[Linda king]

Egg laying is just ovulation, males are not need for that process.

Makes sense now. Happens like human females making eggs every month naturally.

 

[nuthatched]

Makes sense now. Happens like human females making eggs every month naturally.

Exactly.