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If they are being overly aggressive then you did the right thing in separating them again. What’s funny is my young Runners 7 months and 5 months old now push around the adult females lowering their heads an making them get out of the way so eventually those 3 girls maybe a force to reckon with.
 
Beautiful ducks. Are your two old ones silver appleyard? I had a mother duck and her two young ones out back into the flock, and two of the others tried picking on the younger ones, but the mother made sure they were left alone
 
My 7-month-old kids, especially the 2 drakes, are very aggressive toward my old girls and my little drake (2 1/2, 1 1/2 and the little drake is 1 now). They deal with it. I've got them all together and mostly they act ok. The only thing I have to watch is the 2 young drakes ganging up on one of the older girls raping them but I'm not filling the pool much this time of year so I think that is under control too. I know this will be a huge problem in the spring but I'm making some plans for that.

Last year when I got my little chocolate drake he blended into the flock perfectly. I sat and watched and everyone was fine and at night he marched right into the big pen with all the girls just like he'd always done it. I was nervous and went out later to check that there was no fighting. It was fine, everyone was asleep and settled in. I guess I was really lucky. He was about 3 months old when I got him.

It's funny how the new group of 4 sticks together all day mostly even though they are all together in one run. You might find your 3 do the same thing. At night those 4 march into the small pen and the other 7 go into the big pen all by themselves. I don't have to do anything but stand there until everyone gets situated.
 
Miss Lydia said:
How are things going today @Dirtygun
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I let the adults out to free range without any problems today with Eagles. The Young ones were let out in the pen with the kiddie pool and they did well. I did put both the young and old together for about an hour and the drake only went after the young ones a few times, but did not make them huddle in the corner of the pen as before. I still keep the separated at night and will keep doing so for a while.

I find it amusing when I go in the pen with the young ones, the older ones come walking up to check out what is going on, no matter where they are in the pond. I do give the meal worms for their trouble.

One question, can you feed too many meal worms? I give both sets a few handfulls during the day and as a treat for coming in to the house they get a few in their water. The young ones are eating their regular food quite well.
 
Miss Lydia said:
If you can afford them have at it! Mine love them I have a 22 oz plastic container that my 34 get 1x a day along with a handful of dog kibble. That sounds like progress!! Keep up the good work!
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I purchase 5lb at a time from Amazon $20, least expensive I have found, our Tractor Supply has 20lbs for $70+. I also feed them Purina duck pellets from Tractor Supply @ $16 for 40lbs. My adult ducks eat very little since they free range, the young ducks eat quite a bit. Any suggestions?
 
I love my ducks34 said:
Beautiful ducks. Are your two old ones silver appleyard? I had a mother duck and her two young ones out back into the flock, and two of the others tried picking on the younger ones, but the mother made sure they were left alone
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Yes, all the ducks are Silver Appleyards, I decided on Appleyards for a couple of reasons, I just like the way they look in the pond, kinda like huge mallards. The other is they are a threaten breed and I like the idea of helping the breed along.
 

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