Lol another question !!! lol to many drakes

[J99]

Ok good , it’s cold here so They need that light for now but I’ll come back from vacation about March 11th so soon after that I’m putting them outside
They are quickly out growing this tote
I’ll move them to the outside bigger brooder soon then to the cage beside the other ducks that way they can hear each other at least
We will see
How long before you just left them
With the big ducks for good?

 

[Miss Lydia]

That’s is something you’ll just have to watch for. The adults may want to bully then again the babies might. I always let them work out their differences unless someone is getting hurt. Your not going to want your young females being mated by your drakes until they are at least 4 months old close to laying age.

 

[J99]

Ok great information guys , I don’t know what I would do without this group and you wonderful people this last year I’ll tell you

 

[Miss Lydia]

We always want others to enjoy their lives with their poultry and anyway we can help then that is what we strive for. I enjoy my poultry so much it’s important to me to help others have that same experience too. Keep us updated on it all please!

 

[thumper650]

Thanks for thinking of me @Miss Lydia. My experience has been that there’s no telling how things will work, and safely experimenting with seeing how your ducks will get along. You’ll read of many different experiences of ducks getting along with chickens, or 2 drakes that get along well. I think the temperament of individual ducks comes into play. And what works in winter, may not in mating season. We’re getting more sunlight, and I’ve noticed my boys getting a little more nippy with each other. Here we go again!

 

[Beaglegal]

I had a thought , if I end up with five drakes and two ducks , can I put the two ducks in with the chickens and house the five drakes together alone without any females? Will they get along then?
I’m just trying to figure out a way I can keep all of my ducks , and in harmony

I have chickens that choose to live among my ducks. The ducks occasionally pull feathers on the chickens butts and all the ducks laugh but that was about it until earlier this week.

My drake was shaking a hen by the neck because she was sneaking an egg into the clutch of duck eggs and he was defending the clutch. She wouldn’t leave the nest so I had to lock the ducks out of the barn for an hour while she finished. He could have possibly killed her. I’m guessing a female duck wouldn’t do that, but they do bully the chickens.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I haven't seen that behavior but my chickens do like to lay their eggs with the duck eggs if they see one. My ducks will grab butt feathers too if one gets too close.

 

[J99]

Well as I said earlier my two females and two males have lived with my chickens since birth until two months ago when my drakes started raping my hens and it was a horrible violent gang rape the girls were even biting them , they killed two of my hens and brutally wounded another before I knew what was happening , so I moved my ducks away in their own pen

now I have three babies I was wondering
If , IF they are boys
I may put my two girl ducks that were raised with these chickens their whole lives back into the coop again and put all five boys together after the babies grow up

hopefully they are girls and I don’t have to
But if I do, @thumper650 you think it’s ok ?

 

[thumper650]

Five boys together may be ok. No girls with them though! Last year my four drakes that live together were separated into “teams” by a small fence. If team pekin could not see team runner, they would attack their teammates. Like at night when they were in their houses. So I stopped putting them in their houses, they stayed in their secure, divided run and were fine.