Mixing ducks =good or bad?

[DuckLady]

I was truly honored to meet Flapper's human and then the following week to go to Seattle where we met up with more duck nuts and had a great time! You can find that in the following episode, including a video of all of us on Flapper-Cam!
I was also honored with a Flapper bite on my wrist. Ha ha ha.

The more ducks the merrier, I say. It is safer for your ducks if you have at least a 3 (ducks) to 1 (drake) ratio. 5 or 6 to 1 is better. We lost our Lucky Duck (the Cheerio catcher featured in the Flapper episode) to a gang pile of 2 scovy drakes and 3 runner drakes injuring her internally. If you keep the breeds about the same size, you can get away with a lower ratio, IMO. Or if your drakes are lightweight breeds (like runners) and your ducks are heavier breeds, like pekins, it won't be so hard on the girls.

 

[mlheran]

Ooooooh, I'm so sorry to hear about Lucky Duck, terrielacy!

She looked like a real sweetie.

Thanks for the info! I think I'm just going to keep it at the two girls for now, one of them is quite a runt so I want to get her started off well before I start introducing new friends. I'm also thinking of trying my hand at incubating some Magpie eggs, so at least that way my two girls will always be the oldest.

Thanks again!