Is my duck in love?…😂

[BlueO]

Hello everyone! So I have a young call duck about 5 to 6 months old. Her name is pancake and she is my tiniest duck she weighs 720 g. She has not started laying and has two call drakes who have not started breeding, but have been trying to impress her and attack each other. The only problem is she seems to be completely smitten over one of my other HUGE drakes! he is a very large golden 300 weighing 2.342 kg and he just grew all of his beautiful drake feathers. Earlier I had went on a three day trip and came back and his head was completely green. That was the first time I started noticing this strange behavior from pancake. When I took cheese(the very large golden 300) out, she started quacking very loudly for him, and I thought it was just because she noticed a duck was missing, but then I took out one of her drakes and she didn’t even care. I noticed every time I put him back she runs over to him and starts doing this cute little head bob(that I have been calling the flirty dance). since Cheese has not been getting any of his breeding hormones yet he just looks very confused when she does this. This is very funny and cute to watch, but I’m very concerned for when breeding season rolls around. Cheese would quite literally break Pancake. And I feel kind of bad for the other call drakes who have been trying so hard to impress her and all she wants is cheese.

Has anyone else seen this kind of behavior? Thank you!

Here’s a picture of them two eating canned corn together.

 

[KathiQuacks]

Is it a sideways head bob paired with a “reh-eh-eh” sound? ‘Cause that is the hen’s flirting behavior, yes. Very sweet, but you’re right, Cheese would seriously hurt her.

 

[Jenbirdee]

they are adorable but yes x2 what miss lydia said

 

[Miss Lydia]

Hello everyone! So I have a young call duck about 5 to 6 months old. Her name is pancake and she is my tiniest duck she weighs 720 g. She has not started laying and has two call drakes who have not started breeding, but have been trying to impress her and attack each other. The only problem is she seems to be completely smitten over one of my other HUGE drakes! he is a very large golden 300 weighing 2.342 kg and he just grew all of his beautiful drake feathers. Earlier I had went on a three day trip and came back and his head was completely green. That was the first time I started noticing this strange behavior from pancake. When I took cheese(the very large golden 300) out, she started quacking very loudly for him, and I thought it was just because she noticed a duck was missing, but then I took out one of her drakes and she didn’t even care. I noticed every time I put him back she runs over to him and starts doing this cute little head bob(that I have been calling the flirty dance). since Cheese has not been getting any of his breeding hormones yet he just looks very confused when she does this. This is very funny and cute to watch, but I’m very concerned for when breeding season rolls around. Cheese would quite literally break Pancake. And I feel kind of bad for the other call drakes who have been trying so hard to impress her and all she wants is cheese.

Has anyone else seen this kind of behavior? Thank you!

Here’s a picture of them two eating canned corn together.

It sounds so much like my Runner when she grew in her hormones before the drake same age did. She would present herself in front of my Muscovy drake who would just stand and look at her like she lost her mind and even my gander was asked for some loving thankfully neither saw her as anything but annoying if they had she would have been promptly removed from them. I hope Cheese has some big girls of his own to love on when he gets ready. And hopefully Pancake will get over him so she doesn't become a pancake.

 

[Coops Dad]

Three drakes? I hope you have more than one hen. Way more.

 

[Jenbirdee]

this is terrible of me i know but i just was thinking that pancake would be a pancake….

 

[BlueO]

Is it a sideways head bob paired with a “reh-eh-eh” sound? ‘Cause that is the hen’s flirting behavior, yes. Very sweet, but you’re right, Cheese would seriously hurt her.

Yes, it is the sideways sideways head, bob and the cute little squeaky quacks! And cheese would be kept separate if he ever showed any breeding behaviors like head, bobs, or dances.

 

[BlueO]

It sounds so much like my Runner when she grew in her hormones before the drake same age did. She would present herself in front of my Muscovy drake who would just stand and look at her like she lost her mind and even my gander was asked for some loving thankfully neither saw her as anything but annoying if they had she would have been promptly removed from them. I hope Cheese has some big girls of his own to love on when he gets ready. And hopefully Pancake will get over him so she doesn't become a pancake.

Haha! I got two Runner hens as a little ducklings and when they started growing up and my already year old Drake, who had definitely got his breeding hormones started biting her and she just fully splayed out! They were the first female ducks I had actually had so I was so confused. But then I got really excited because I knew she was a hen, which I didn’t know then.

 

[BlueO]

Three drakes? I hope you have more than one hen. Way more.

Yeah, I’m actually having a bit of a problem with drakes right now… I have five drakes and three hens but only one of the drakes is actually breeding right now. Once they begin breeding, I plan on hatching some of their eggs and getting females and then selling two of my drakes so that I can level this out. I feel terrible because I was going to sell one of my drakes as a duckling, but then his sister died so I had to get another duckling for him which I then found out was a drake and I didn’t want to end up with no ducklings so I kept them both. One of them has been a bit of a problem lately so once I’ve got ducklings from him, I’ll sell him pretty quickly. Only problem is finding a buyer…

 

[BlueO]

Sort of wondering if pancake is in love with cheese because her drakes are rather bland. I mean, I think they’re pretty but the most color they’ve given is a random blue wing feather or three green head feathers. They’re both black or very dark gray and have a little brown on their chest.