I would even carry them to a swimming place if they can't walk there on their own! There's noting better for duck-legs than exercise in water without all the weight pushing down on their feet. My drake Limpy spends entire days in the pool, it seems to help him.
I second Howard, the duck. Gotta have a white duck named Howard, even though that movie is absolute dog crap.
When I get new ducks. I usually build onto our existing pen..but what you’re doing is fine..just that they all fully aware of each other...because ours were separate we could let the new ducks out for a bit and if the wanted back we’d do that. It depends on the ducks and how they are interacting..if you see them bullying when you do let them socialize, then a few more days, but we had a tri, the only spent two nights alone..they were ready...good luck..keep watch..you’ll know when it’s time
They struggle when being held, last time we had pekins we kept them in for almost a week and they wanted to be in the bushes not their coop, we had to chase them in their coop for almost a month. The new pekins don't like being held at ALL and are not calm whatsoever, when I went to pick them up they tried flying out of our arms and almost fell out of our reach.
