Beaglegal
Songster
My drake decided this spring he no longer liked 2 of my ducks and started trying to ostracize them. The behavior escalated until they both went broody on the same nest. They hatched and raised 1 duckling between them who happens to be male. I tried to reintegrate them after the duckling was bigger but he kept beating on one of the mothers. I separated her and the duckling to another area. There is a chicken yard between the 2 duck yard. They were upset at at first but have adapted pretty quickly. The drake then began to beat on the second mother. Last week I brought her over to join the other to and she won’t stop obsessively trying to get back. She’s not eating that great and she losing more feathers. She gets along with the other 2 but spends all day trying to squeeze through the fence to get back. Once she escaped and got back over to the drake and he chased her back out. She doesn’t seem to get that he doesn’t want her. The other female ducks ignore her now, no one over there is her friend now. I’m just not sure how to help her adjust and worry she is going to drop dead from stress