Help Please!!!!

[Sue S]

I’d try them all together before bedtime just to make sure the ducklings don’t get picked on but yes def get them started with integration. Beautiful ducks!

I tried the other day to let them hang out together but my male Rouen wasn't having it, he went after my Pekin duckling ( he's a male also, maybe that's why ) & pulled on his wing & had a mouth full of feathers before I could get them apart. I was only about 5 steps away when it happened ( he's quick!! ) so, for now the ducklings ( that are getting so big, so fast !) are in the run during the day til they get a little bigger & fight back when their bully "brother" picks on them!!! They still freak out when I get near them but I've takin everyones advice & they are calming down a bit they don't freak out when I pick them up now, as long as I don't look at them!!!!!

 

[Miss Lydia]

How are the females with them?

 

[Sue S]

Also, I was told that Goose ( orange beak ) is definitely a pekin & I thought Strawberry ( pink beak ) was a white layer but someone said she is a Aylesbury??? I never heard of that breed is it the same as a White Layer???

 

[Miss Lydia]

If you got your ducklings at a feed store I doubt you got an Aylesbury. White layer or Pekin are most likely.

 

[Sue S]

How are the females with them?

2 of the female don't pay attention to them but my 1 female Fluffy is top hen/duck & she follows Larr Bear ( my male ) every where so when he attacks she attacks

 

[Sue S]

If you got your ducklings at a feed store I doubt you got an Aylesbury. White layer or Pekin are most likely.

Yes, I got them at TSC & was told they were both Pekins when I got them. What do you think Strawberry is??? Since she has the pink beak.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Try them together and see what happens with out the drake in the mix. Best way to get them together and friends is to keep the drake out of the picture. He shouldn’t be with the youngins for a while anyway.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Everyone I have seen on here says pink bill means white layer.

 

[Sue S]

Try them together and see what happens with out the drake in the mix. Best way to get them together and friends is to keep the drake out of the picture. He shouldn’t be with the youngins for a while anyway.

I've tried only letting the females out with the ducklings & the females freak out when Larr Bear ( the male ) is not out with them. All they do is sit & quack!!! I thought about putting my 2 "easy going" females into the duck house at night ( supervised the 1st night ) with the babies so they can hopefully become friends? Do u think that would be ok?

 

[Miss Lydia]

I do. They hopefully will help integration go better once your ducklings can be old enough to be with your drake.