kesrchicky16
Songster
- Dec 13, 2016
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My Alpha drake picked a fight with my Alpha roo and got some injury around one eye that necessitated a good clean bath to rehydrate and allow him to tell his face. The first 2 trips into the bathtub for clean water, warmth and being allowed to to his thing went well.
I decides the girls feathers looked like crap so They should get a good bath to since it was warm today. 2 at a time they joined him in his private hot tub of foreplay. LOL. He was one tuckered out boy but they all seem more accepting of him as flock head now.
They came as 3 separate flocks each with at least 1 male. The first group of 6 i did t know to cut flight feathers since they were just coming into adolescence. 2 ducks flew away and the mature female was stolen by a coon. That left my Alpha and his 2 ducks. Group 2 was 6 runners and a Peking male. Well 3 of those runners turned out to be male too. Peking was killed fighting a fox but put up enough fight the fox ran away while he succumbed to his injury. I rid my farm if the other 3 because that was just too much testosterone. The last group was mature females an a black Swedish × Rouen ducking. His nuptial feathers are beautiful. (He got a bath too but alone.)
Well see how things go but they seem more cohesive now.
Side note my Alpha is a runner as well and I hadn't held and female runners until today but they are tiny. I thought Indie was small (and is compared to my Peking & Rouen.) But he takes 2 hands to control. I caught 1 girl and had full control with 1 hand. They are not much broader then a chicken.
I decides the girls feathers looked like crap so They should get a good bath to since it was warm today. 2 at a time they joined him in his private hot tub of foreplay. LOL. He was one tuckered out boy but they all seem more accepting of him as flock head now.
They came as 3 separate flocks each with at least 1 male. The first group of 6 i did t know to cut flight feathers since they were just coming into adolescence. 2 ducks flew away and the mature female was stolen by a coon. That left my Alpha and his 2 ducks. Group 2 was 6 runners and a Peking male. Well 3 of those runners turned out to be male too. Peking was killed fighting a fox but put up enough fight the fox ran away while he succumbed to his injury. I rid my farm if the other 3 because that was just too much testosterone. The last group was mature females an a black Swedish × Rouen ducking. His nuptial feathers are beautiful. (He got a bath too but alone.)
Well see how things go but they seem more cohesive now.
Side note my Alpha is a runner as well and I hadn't held and female runners until today but they are tiny. I thought Indie was small (and is compared to my Peking & Rouen.) But he takes 2 hands to control. I caught 1 girl and had full control with 1 hand. They are not much broader then a chicken.
But I am hoping he has grown out of it because the last 3-4 months he hasn't been interested in anything but lowering his head to make them move away.
