Overly Aggressive Drake

[meggiedoodle]

Hi everyone! I have an Australian Spotted drake who is extremely aggressive towards me. I have read other posts about flipping him and holding his bill and such but nothing seems to work with him. He follows every step I take biting at my feet and when I bend over to pick up the eggs, he proceeds to bite my hands. What do you guys think? He is the only drake, so no worries with too many males. He has five girls around, but he's not overly aggressive towards them either. Is he just protective? Anything I can do to fix the problem?

Thanks!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Hi everyone! I have an Australian Spotted drake who is extremely aggressive towards me. I have read other posts about flipping him and holding his bill and such but nothing seems to work with him. He follows every step I take biting at my feet and when I bend over to pick up the eggs, he proceeds to bite my hands. What do you guys think? He is the only drake, so no worries with too many males. He has five girls around, but he's not overly aggressive towards them either. Is he just protective? Anything I can do to fix the problem?

Thanks!

Sounds like hormones are getting the best of him, did you raise him as a duckling? try this when he comes after you, you turn around and go after him put your hand over his back and his neck and hold him down just like another drake would do if he got hold of him, I see my drake doing this to his son quite often

and it works everytime. don't let him up till he stops fighting. It may take some time to get the message across but I think it will if your consistent with this approach. Good luck and let us know how it goes.

 

[meggiedoodle]

Hi! Thanks for the reply! Yeah I raised him from a duckling, and what's weird is that he was the one that I handled the most. He had angel wing as a baby, and I fixed it for him, which I thought may have played into it at first--he didn't like being taped that much. He is over one year old now, and he's progressively gotten worse as he gets older. I will make sure to try it and see how it goes! Hopefully it works; I don't want to have to get rid of him if I don't have to. Thanks again for a possible solution!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Being persistent is the key here, I also raised a drake from hatch and boy was he a terror when he hit puberty, but he is just a really good drake, but it didn't come over night so don't give up on him just become the dominant drake so to speak. keep updating on progress.