Our duck is mounting our chicken

[chickens really]

All of mine breed year round.

Lol...Actually impossible...

 

[casportpony]

Lol...Actually impossible...

How so? If not possible, why do I have duckling's hatching every month of the year?

 

[chickens really]

How so? If not possible, why do I have duckling's hatching every month of the year?

I won't get into it..Although you have more than one set of breeders correct?

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

My ducks season is January through December. I live in a warm climate but sex is fun every day 365. Currently having to chase my 6 month old gander off the ducks, all the ducks. He has no interest in the goose, and I thought geese had a season......

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

I would think that things would be different in the North but it is green all year here and rarely, very rarely gets below 0C. Maybe twice a year and then just a few hours. I would think that changes behavior. I don't raise chicks, so can't comment on that. Just that mounting is an every day activity. I collect and eat the eggs or my friends do every day. Currently no drake so except for the gander it is same sex sex.

 

[chickens really]

I would think that things would be different in the North but it is green all year here and rarely, very rarely gets below 0C. Maybe twice a year and then just a few hours. I would think that changes behavior. I don't raise chicks, so can't comment on that. Just that mounting is an every day activity. I collect and eat the eggs or my friends do every day. Currently no drake so except for the gander it is same sex sex.

He is young and coming into his sexuality. Not breeding season.

 

[casportpony]

That’s right...our duck is mounting our chicken. We witnessed it after work today when we went to let them out to free range, as we do everyday. We have read that this can be harmful, even deadly, to the chicken. Is this true? What can we do to prevent him from mounting the hens

I had one that I raised with chickens and he never took a liking to his own kind (that is not a mistake i will not make again, ). I tried locking him up with ducks, but once I turned him loose he went and found his favorite hen.

For several years he spent most of the day following his favorite around and at night he slept under the tree she roosted in.

I never saw him mate her, but he probably did, and sometimes he would stray and go after other hens. He was sneaky guy, he most often went after the ones sunbathing or laying eggs.

Injuries? Yes, they can happen and I do have one that was injured and I will get some pictures of her for you to see.

Deaths? No deaths here, but other members have said it can happen.

If he likes ducks too you might be able to break him of the habit by locking him up with more ducks.

Edited to correct spelling.

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

You are correct. He is also coming into his Aholeness. Bit my husband on the butt yesterday. I told him not to turn his back with a red shirt on. I laughed and earned the silent treatment. From my husband not the gander, the gander is Never silent.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Although some geese do breed in other times of the year Chinese will breed and lay eggs in fall of the year read it on the goose forum.

 

[chickens really]

Hello...
For anyone interested in this?
Young Ducks are sexually active. From about 4 months of age till the second season. This is true with all poultry really. Hens breed Hens. Drakes breed anything that they can. Kiddie pools are exciting places.
Breeding season has nothing to do with sexual hopping as many do when young. Ducks have a season. Birds molt and Drakes in eclipse do not breed and hens that are done laying after a season do not get bred.