Male duck aggressive to only one female, Help!

[quackiemama]

Put them side by side or rehome the one female and just keep the couple that’s so bonded. Plenty on here have drake jail when their drakes are so crazy with hormones.Or being so aggressive to their females

I love "drake jail". I hope to never have to use it. LOL

 

[CrystaBub]

I use drake jail a lot! In fact I keep my drake jail, a little animal fence, accessible at all times b/c you just never know when it will be needed. It also serves as a hospital when needed

 

[chickens really]

Yes. I have a Jail/ Hospital too and you definitely can keep him in that till the Hens bond and I've also applied cardboard so my Drakes can't see the Hens. Then let him out a couple of weeks later to see how things go. I have two pens and my Drakes can't see each other. I free range separate times a day each group during breeding season.

 

[TheMallardDuck]

I will try to get a jail definitely. Could it also be boosted by hormones as he is at the age where his hormones go crazy.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Yes of course drake hormones are over the top. But @Table4Six really explained it best I think as far as the Mallard breed. He has chosen a mate.

 

[TheMallardDuck]

Is it possible next year he could choose her or do they partner for life?

 

[chickens really]

Is it possible next year he could choose her or do they partner for life?

No, do not partner for life like Geese...

 

[Miss Lydia]

He will have her for a mate this year, and if she goes broody he will run around with the other female. He still may pair up with her again next year hard to say. But they don't mate for life.

 

[TheMallardDuck]

The egg might’ve been the other female and she is kind of broody. I don’t think she knows how to actually sit on the eggs. She just sits there doing nothing while the egg is by her side. We’ve taken it to eat of course. Here is a picture of her which was kinda sitting on it. And the lonely egg picture is yesterday and not today’s egg.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Enjoy those eggs. ! She’s a cutie