Male duck aggressive to only one female, Help!

[TheMallardDuck]

Thanks. Is that actually sitting on them? Or is she just trying to be a mother but she’s a first so she doesn’t really know?

 

[Miss Lydia]

I don't know what part of the country your in or if your even in the US but this time of year with the cold weather isn't an ideal time to let a duck brood and hatch. Take the eggs up daily use them they will keep laying them when the weather starts to warm if she wants to start collecting and go broody and you can have ducklings let her brood. But just because they lay an egg and lay by it doesn't mean she wants to go broody or be a mom.

 

[TheMallardDuck]

Yes it is cold here too. I just wanted to know. I guess she isn’t being that broody at all. FYI I’m in the UK.

 

[Miss Lydia]

How’s are things going?

 

[TheMallardDuck]

Very well. Now he absolutely accepts her into the house and we have a method. We put her in first and then we put the two others next. He doesn’t really try to bite her unless we are there. It’s like a ‘Don’t play with her play with me instead’ type of thing. He also tries to bite her a lot less. He might also be more less boosted by hormones as he has mated and now the girl is laying eggs, the other girl not the one who was getting bitten. I think he understands a bit more.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Awesome. It’s wonderful when they work things out!