Help!!!

[Duckbreeder2020]

My 11 ducks didn’t fit so I put them in with my chickens and the chickens have to much space. So I put in my ducks and the chickens are pecking at my ducks. What can I do to keep the chickens from hurting my ducks?

 

[Yardfulla poopers]

Are they in the brooder together or in a coop? I don't think they should be in a brooder together.

 

[Duckbreeder2020]

Are they in the brooder together or in a coop? I don't think they should be in a brooder together.

They are in an outdoor area big enough for a couple of dogs. They have plenty of space for each other. I have 23 road Island Red chickens with 5 Pekins 2 White Cresteds and 3 Buff Orpington ducks. The ducks stay together in a big group. They each have a huge space and the coop in the size of a medium sized shed

 

[Duckbreeder2020]

The ducks are 9.7 weeks old and the chickens are a year old almost

 

[Yardfulla poopers]

My bet is that since the chickens were there first, they are working on a new pecking order. That sounds like way too many birds in one space but I don't know your dimensions. Mine all free range but share a coop and it tends to be the ducks going after the chickens more often than the chickens going after ducks.

 

[Duckbreeder2020]

My bet is that since the chickens were there first, they are working on a new pecking order. That sounds like way too many birds in one space but I don't know your dimensions. Mine all free range but share a coop and it tends to be the ducks going after the chickens more often than the chickens going after ducks.

We live on a 135 acre farm with foxes and who knows what, we also have 7 dogs. So they can’t be free range. The enclosed area is the size of a small house and the coop as I said before is the size of a medium sized shed. Your probably right though, the chickens may be pecking because they were there first.

 

[aart]

I said before is the size of a medium sized shed.

How big is that in, feet by feet?
Get your tape measure and camera out.
Dimensions and pics would help immensely.