Muscovy ducks becoming friends

[tessandherducks]

Hi all, in the summer I brought six Muscovy duck eggs of eBay and brought an incubator, 35 days later we had 2 lovely ducklings, unfortunately not to long after one of the duckling (pancake) died and I’m not sure what of : (.
Anyway this left a lonely other duckling called puddles, to insure that he wouldn’t be lonely when older I brought another 6 eggs and hatched these eggs getting another 2 sweet babies, now that the second 2 ducklings are older we have put the 3 of them together outside and they Don’t seem to really notice each other and don’t get too close together, their not fighting but just ignoring each other . The two younger once stay together and puddles stays to himself. puddles and One of the younger one’s called petunia are females and the other younger duck is called pip and is a male, I was just wondering if they Will all eventually be friends? and I was also wondering weather in the summers to come will pip breed with petunia and puddles or will he only breed with petunia since they are friends. If they don’t become friends their is a wild goose that often comes and hangs out with puddles : )

by the way they have been together for about 2 weeks and before that puddles was outside alone and the pip and petunia where in an outdoor enclosure.

I have uploaded some cute photos of them all!

 

[ruthhope]

Your muscovy are lovely.

You don't say where you are, but a few cold nights and your muscovy are likely to be all huddled up together to keep warm.

I expect that you drake will mate with bothe females -- muscovy drakes generally need 4 or more females, and so you may need to get more if your females are over mated.

My son had a muscovy female and two pekin females. The muscovy was very friendly but the pekins were more wary. It took more than a month -- closer to two months, before all three would huddle together in one corner of the yard, awaiting my son or I to come and feed them in the afternoon. They were bathing in a wading pool together a little before then. They were good about feeding from the same bowl from the get go and each happily slept in adjacent nesting boxes -- on one occasion all three laid their egg in the same box and quite often the muscovy and the larger of the pekins would both be in one nesting box when I got them up in the morning.

Give your muscovy time -- they will be friendly together even if the two younger ones are more closely bonded with eachother

 

[Miss Lydia]

The breeding season always seals the deal, your drake will make sure both females are his. My Muscovy drake is now down to 2 females [mine are getting old and passing away] but he doesn't over mate them and they are a very close little flock now.