Need help picking a special Drake for a special hen

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Our mallard drakes were very aggressive and they both wanted the same female duck all the time. She had her favorite though, the Cayuga/mallard cross that wasn't allowed by the mallards to have any fun with anything. We ended up dispatching the bullies. The cayuga cross took lead male and he is much gentler. We got 7 more ducks, 1 of which is a khaki male, 1 a pekin male. There were enough females for both the cayuga and the khaki... the pekin male hurt his leg and spent time recovering away from the flock. So now he usually just lounges around pretty chill and doesn't seem interested in mating at all because he hates walking on his bad leg ( though he is twice the size of the other 2 males so this I consider a good thing ).
 
Jenwisp said:
Our mallard drakes were very aggressive and they both wanted the same female duck all the time. She had her favorite though, the Cayuga/mallard cross that wasn't allowed by the mallards to have any fun with anything. We ended up dispatching the bullies. The cayuga cross took lead male and he is much gentler. We got 7 more ducks, 1 of which is a khaki male, 1 a pekin male. There were enough females for both the cayuga and the khaki... the pekin male hurt his leg and spent time recovering away from the flock. So now he usually just lounges around pretty chill and doesn't seem interested in mating at all because he hates walking on his bad leg ( though he is twice the size of the other 2 males so this I consider a good thing ).
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Ah, thanks for the mallard feedback. I've seen a few people comment on how their mallards were less aggressive in regards to mating, so it is good to have a well rounded perspective. It really does seem to be an individual personality thing.
 
Isaac 0 said:
It would be helpful to know your ratio of males, to females, as well as some pictures of what the birds are being housed in, during the day, and night. A small enclosure, with too many males, is suggested for someone who wants's a chaotic flock.



It seems as if a Call drake wouldn't be able to do much of anything to a larger-sized duck, but sadly that is not the case. Retaining more of their wild ancestors, call drakes can inflict a good bit of damage to larger-sized ducks.
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I Have one Drake and three hens that live with the Drake. Their run about 20 ft by 6 ft
Isaac 0 said:
It would be helpful to know your ratio of males, to females, as well as some pictures of what the birds are being housed in, during the day, and night. A small enclosure, with too many males, is suggested for someone who wants's a chaotic flock.

I have one Drake and three hens that live in one pen together. The other duck hen is in an identically sized pen with 7 chickens. Run is 6x20 ft. Coop is 4x4 ft. They get to free range the fenced in yard (.5 acres) a good bit.

I don't have a picture on my phone.

I am definitely open to getting more hens to keep the ratio appropriate.
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The only way I'd get another drake with only three hens is if you get rid of your first drake, otherwise you risk your drakes fighting and overmating all your hens. Alternately you need a lot more hens.

Personally I don't know that I'd keep a drake at all though, and trying to find one with the hope that it would even like or care about this specific hen its supposed to be *for* is a bit tricky. He might prefer one of the other girls and entirely ignore her, or he might not like any of them, or any other possibility. They've got a little too much individual personality for me to want to play matchmaker.
 
Agree with others it seems too small an area to have multiple drakes around. Also our drake Winston, a pekin, seems to be pretty decent to the girls, he only really seems interested in the other Perkins, but never any missing feathers or anything like that. Sometimes i will look out and see that 3 runner hens are trying to stack up at once but as said, not much comes of this.
 
LT71689 said:
The only way I'd get another drake with only three hens is if you get rid of your first drake, otherwise you risk your drakes fighting and overmating all your hens. Alternately you need a lot more hens.

Personally I don't know that I'd keep a drake at all though, and trying to find one with the hope that it would even like or care about this specific hen its supposed to be *for* is a bit tricky. He might prefer one of the other girls and entirely ignore her, or he might not like any of them, or any other possibility. They've got a little too much individual personality for me to want to play matchmaker.
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The two drakes wouldn't be together and the new Drake wouldn't be with the hens. He would just be with the special hen.
 
SolarDuck said:
I mean most of the time if a drake just has 1 hen it will result in over mating. I really think it would be a better idea to just get another hen to be friends with your hen
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Yeah I think I should get
SolarDuck said:
I mean most of the time if a drake just has 1 hen it will result in over mating. I really think it would be a better idea to just get another hen to be friends with your hen
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I probably should get another hen. But I also got a duck leash so now when the other birds are in the coop me and her can go for a walk.
 

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