Strange duck behaviour..

[shawluvsbirds]

Oh. I can see how that's true . I'm wondering if one of my ducks has no gender, sometimes she will lay an egg, other times she will hump her husband not sure if she is right in the mind, y'know.

Lays eggs. . female.
Just a frisky one.
I have plenty of call drakes for my girls and they still hump each other. . I think it's somewhat a dominance thing too. . But they sure do get with it for whatever reason you like to believe.

 

[FluffTheDuck]

Lays eggs. . female.
Just a frisky one.
I have plenty of call drakes for my girls and they still hump each other. . I think it's somewhat a dominance thing too. . But they sure do get with it for whatever reason you like to believe.

She definitely is frisky.. and MEAN to her boy. She will hide somewhere for HOURS and he will be out there screaming and running everywhere. I'll come out and pick him up and look too and I'll quietly hear a quacky laugh when I walk by something.. and when I can see her she'll bust out of her hiding spot so bad, the poor boy gets scared to death, realizes "he" found her, then he will "sing" his head off. I have a very, very interesting flock.

 

[FathertoFeathers]

So... We have 4 ducks - Fish and Chips and the newbies Cheese and Quackers.

Fish and Chips are 6 months old and Cheese and Quackers are 3 months old.

Today, my daughter and I were sitting outside enjoying the weather and playing with the ducks. April (my daughter) picked up Chips and set him on her lap. He bit onto her finger, and she laughed, but he had really latched on ... She's got a bit of a finger hickie now.

Anyway, he started stomping his feet immediately, and then gyrating. My 15 year old daughter jumped up out of her chair as soon as she realized she was being humped, releasing her finger with a SNAP from Chips' beak shutting and he landed on the ground. He didn't run.. he just stood there, peering up at her sideways like .. "Would you please sit down so we can continue".


We are a little freaked out. I mean.. a lotta bit, but... These are our first ducks. We have nearly daily gender reveals. Fish has been a girl and then a boy, then he grew sex feathers, then they fell out and now they are back.. Cheese we are 90% sure is a girl.. unless she's a boy.. But we think she might be a gender.. or not.. and Quackers we are pretty sure is a boy, unless he's a girl.. which is entirely possible.

I tried sexing them as chicks - that got me no where, but one duck lovingly shot a stream of poo directly into the open mouth of the Tractor supply lady who was trying to help me sex them.. We don't go there anymore.

So.. Here's my other problem.. If i have 3 boys and a girl I can't keep them. I think they would kill her. I don't know what to do.. they are VERY well loved little boys.

Also - noises - so Fish and Chips quack, low and sometimes they sound like farts. Quackers ... and the irony of this isn't lost on me... Doesn't ever make a noise. Cheese - Sounds like a laughing hyena ALL the time. (Actually she only does it when she can hear me but not see me.. when I'm not home, she's quiet.. or so my husband and housekeeper have said).

I have a female duck (not positive on the breed. I think she's a mix) who just doesn't say anything. There is no noise the comes from her at all. I think Quackers and Cheese are females and Fish and Chips sound like males. But with ducks sometimes its hard to tell.

 

[FluffTheDuck]

I have a female duck (not positive on the breed. I think she's a mix) who just doesn't say anything. There is no noise the comes from her at all. I think Quackers and Cheese are females and Fish and Chips sound like males. But with ducks sometimes its hard to tell.

X2 with gender options..

 

[shawluvsbirds]

She definitely is frisky.. and MEAN to her boy. She will hide somewhere for HOURS and he will be out there screaming and running everywhere. I'll come out and pick him up and look too and I'll quietly hear a quacky laugh when I walk by something.. and when I can see her she'll bust out of her hiding spot so bad, the poor boy gets scared to death, realizes "he" found her, then he will "sing" his head off. I have a very, very interesting flock.

Sounds like it.
The funniest thing here is the way they seem to mock us every time we laugh. It's like an echo. . ha ha ha. . quack quack quack. .

 

[FluffTheDuck]

Sounds like it.
The funniest thing here is the way they seem to mock us every time we laugh. It's like an echo. . ha ha ha. . quack quack quack. .

Definitely!

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Definitely!

It's especially funny when they are in their houses at night. . and your just sitting there talking and all of the sudden they start up like they're eavesdropping and laughing at you.

Either that or they are telling each other bed time jokes.

 

[FluffTheDuck]

It's especially funny when they are in their houses at night. . and your just sitting there talking and all of the sudden they start up like they're eavesdropping and laughing at you.

Either that or they are telling each other bed time jokes.

The same female pooped as soon as I stepped on the ground, she pooped RIGHT where I was gonna step. Well of course I slipped, then she violently laughed at me!
Uhgh! Ducks are embarrassing me!

 

[Jemima Duck]

Loving everyone's anecdotes, not sure if my own drake is sane either... I was kneeling down on the grass one day in my garden, hunting for worms for my female ducks, when all of a sudden something is pulling my hair! -Then I feel two feet scratching my back! Bloody Gerald the Drake is using my hair as a rock climbing rope up my back! I have since had to put him in his place, though he still gives me evil looks when I give his girls slugs, it's almost like he's jealous. Ducks are weird...

 

[FluffTheDuck]

Loving everyone's anecdotes, not sure if my own drake is sane either... I was kneeling down on the grass one day in my garden, hunting for worms for my female ducks, when all of a sudden something is pulling my hair! -Then I feel two feet scratching my back! Bloody Gerald the Drake is using my hair as a rock climbing rope up my back! I have since had to put him in his place, though he still gives me evil looks when I give his girls slugs, it's almost like he's jealous. Ducks are weird...

Ducks are weird indeed!