I need some help. I have 2 runners that are almost 1 year old and are fantastic. This spring I got 2 Welsh Harlequin ducklings to add to the flock. I have been trying to integrate them for weeks and it is not going well. When they were smaller, my chocolate runner would stare at them through the fence and she would start to shiver and then she would attack the fence to try to get to the chicks. I mean she really hated them. Now they are 7 weeks old and about the same size as the runners and they have turned the tables. Yesterday they cornered my chocolate runner twice and attacked her. I had to intervene. They wont let the runners in the pond either and I can’t have them in the house together at night.
I‘m not sure what else to do. They have been living together in the same house separated by fencing for 4 weeks and they are not getting used to each other. My blue runner just hides in the mint patch all day. I hate that my runners are so unhappy. Do I just need to give it more time? Is there something different to do? Or do I just need to remove the harlequins?
I‘m not sure what else to do. They have been living together in the same house separated by fencing for 4 weeks and they are not getting used to each other. My blue runner just hides in the mint patch all day. I hate that my runners are so unhappy. Do I just need to give it more time? Is there something different to do? Or do I just need to remove the harlequins?
