Rescued Duckling... newbie

[Miss Lydia]

Lil stinker Fancy.

So sweet looking hope they all make friends and become 1 flock.

 

[Raenh]

I really hope they do to, I'm worried I'm interfering to much, trying to keep them from getting abused. They keep making that scared noise and then the one that fancy beats up on makes that loud hurting noise.

Atm I have the twins in spare room with food so they can rest a bit, theyve been doing nothing but running, crying, and running since the 2-3 hours in the car yesterday

 

[Raenh]

Ohkay, we're situated now. I have the twins comfortably in old rabbits cafe that i used for fancy and speedy, but they outgrew it. The twins are about half speedys size, and i thought she was small. The drake that was with them was smaller than fancy too...
Things are a little calmer now.

 

[Miss Lydia]

If there is a way to introduce with out fancy being able to jump them that would work good. Give them all time to get to know each other with out touching.
Or is the rabbit cage taking care of that?

 

[Raenh]

It is atm - fancy keeps trying to break into it though. Manged to fall in this morning because the board fell off the top to the side - i fixed that, its screwed down now.
They talk different from speedy and fancy. Probably because of me, speedy learned to communicate silently for the most part with me and only uses her inbred calls for fancy, and fancy had to adapt to both of us, so he does a mixture of silent for me and huffing/hissing to speedy. The twins have a bunch of different calls and vocals that i never heard from speedy...

 

[Miss Lydia]

I love the lil coos the females make probably Speedy will be talking like that soon. My drake only huffs and too.

 

[Raenh]

Is it normal for speedy and fancy to be aggressive towards the new ones. Even speedy is kinda beating up on the same one fancy does and i don't know why.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Yes it is they are intruders into this tight lil flock Speedy and Fancy have, main reason you want to keep them separate but where they can all see each other for a while so they can get use to the newbies. And of course they all go after the most timid. It takes time to integrate but it will work.

 

[Raenh]

New worry, found mold in speedys nesting coop.

Cleaning it out, what should i watch for?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Just clean it out good use can use white vinegar and water and let it dry out real good before putting bedding in.