Putting young ducks with older obes

[Pauline50]

I have a 7 week old female call duck and would like to know when it is safe to introduce them to a 1 year old drake and 2 hens.

 

[ruthhope]

I have a 7 week old female call duck and would like to know when it is safe to introduce them to a 1 year old drake and 2 hens.

Personally, I don't introduce females to drakes until the female is 6 months old. Some others in this forum have introduced at 4.5 months, but they know their drakes.

 

[Papaye]

Hi.

I have a 7 week old female call duck and would like to know when it is safe to introduce them to a 1 year old drake and 2 hens.

If a duckling is a female, I would wait for her to be 4-and-a-half-months-old before putting her together with a drake...

...During mating season specifically, I would not let a hen meet a drake if she is not at least 5-months-old!
(In fact, I would recommend to wait for mating season to end before putting a young hen together with a drake for the first time...)


...What breed(s) are your other ducks?
Are they Call ducks too?

 

[CoriM]

You would never want your female call to be with a standard drake unless you were 100% confident he wouldn't try to mate her, otherwise he would probably kill her.