@Table4Six Your hen is absolutely beautiful.
I thought about that after replying to your last post. I mean, I'm not at home so that I can go outside and listen to him, but I do think he has a voice that's a bit raspier than the girls. And I also looked up young drake coloration, and yeah, you're right! Enterprise is a drake!
I mean, even thinking about his behavior makes sense. He's very protective of the hens. The pictures I shared were from a couple weeks back when we were cleaning their enclosure. I was with them because hawks are a very real danger at my house - we have at least two resident hawks in the area and I think some eagles nest near our house - so I stayed with them in their temporary enclosure. We don't have a fence up and no leash laws locally mean there's a lot of dogs that roam around too. One of the hawks made a fly by, and he was the one who kept watch the entire time. He even kind of stood over them.
Just this morning my daughter also noticed him posturing around the pen. He was puffed up, walking in a circle around the pen while the others were all laid down or foraging.
There should be a German word for that feeling one gets when they are informed that they've been misgendering their favorite duck for ten months.