Need advice/assistance with depressed duck

[Silvester]

I have a slightly diverse flock, 3 roosters, 3 hens, now 7 month old chicks, 2 Pekin drakes, a Pekin duck and 2 Rouen drakes. One of the roosters and the two Rouens are often aggressive toward one another, but the two drakes tend to team up against him and come out on top. The two Rouens don't seem to interact much with the Pekins much more than pecking order stuff.


We've been hit with a bit of a heat wave this past week and when I got home Sunday after a day in the park I found one of my Rouens dead. I'm guessing that he just expired because of the heat, being a dark color and often getting chased about...



I've made it a point to get extra waterers and create some additional shade in the run in hopes of preventing any more heat issues.



My real problem is that the surviving Rouen drake seems to be depressed. I got both of the Rouens together, but in a separate batch from the rest of the birds and they stuck together like glue, never more than a couple feet apart for the past year.... With the one gone, the survivor has no one to play with or help fight off the other birds and he's taken to sitting by himself as far away from the rest of the flock as possible; I have the two halves of a dog crate set out for shade and he seems to have sequestered himself in one - I put a separate food dish and waterer there for him, but I'm not sure what else I can do.


If I can't get him to be more intergrated with the Pekins, I'd rather find him a new home where he might be able to make new friends.
I'm afraid he is going to die of a broke heart or get over picked on by the other males and get hurt.



Does anyone have any advice?

 

[Amykins]

I'm more concerned that you have predominantly males. It's not good to have your birds fighting constantly, and I'm kind of surprised that your poor lone female hasn't been mated to death! My heart breaks for your little Rouen. With his buddy gone he really is all by his lonesome.

 

[Silvester]

I'm not happy about the disproportionate quantity of males either, but it was luck of the draw...
I bought 4 pekin chicks and a week later 2 rouen chicks, one of the pekins caught a chill at about week 6 and perished and the rest played out as it has...

With the chickens, the lady at Tractor Supply checked each one and said they were all female. :-(
I have a friend that is likely to take the biggest jerk rooster for slaughter in the next week or so. I have my fingers crossed that the new batch of chicks is mostly females, but I'm not a lucky person - so I'm not holding my breath. :-(