- Aug 16, 2015
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HI,
This is not our first time with keeping chickens but it may as well be. We have a good sized parcel in a rural area with a relatively big pond. We a couple of Serama hens years ago and that went well until they were taken...presumably by air, but it was never decided.
I was looking on craigslist the other day and saw were someone was giving away 3 hens and a duck...and before I could say 3 hens and a.......she was off to pick them up.
So a couple of weeks ago we got that crew (3 hens and a drake) now we have 3 barred rock hens (one is obviously a mix) and 3 Pekin ducks (1 drake and 2 hens). We got the two ducks 2 days ago because the Drake...who has spent his whole life with chickens is afraid to go in the pond (he thinks he's a chicken?). We figured: if we got some hen ducks, he would remember where he came from and be a duck again.
Well this afternoon we saw the Drake mating with one of the ducks.
Now I need to know how this is going to work.
This is not our first time with keeping chickens but it may as well be. We have a good sized parcel in a rural area with a relatively big pond. We a couple of Serama hens years ago and that went well until they were taken...presumably by air, but it was never decided.
I was looking on craigslist the other day and saw were someone was giving away 3 hens and a duck...and before I could say 3 hens and a.......she was off to pick them up.
So a couple of weeks ago we got that crew (3 hens and a drake) now we have 3 barred rock hens (one is obviously a mix) and 3 Pekin ducks (1 drake and 2 hens). We got the two ducks 2 days ago because the Drake...who has spent his whole life with chickens is afraid to go in the pond (he thinks he's a chicken?). We figured: if we got some hen ducks, he would remember where he came from and be a duck again.
Well this afternoon we saw the Drake mating with one of the ducks.
Now I need to know how this is going to work.
