Topic of the Week - Drakes and Drake Behaviour

[casportpony]

Pardon the double post. I was doing some research, and I found that prolapsed penises happen a lot in drakes that have the duck plague (Duck Viral Enteritis, or DVE), which I thought was interesting. I wonder why that is?

I wonder that too.

 

[chickens really]

Pardon the double post. I was doing some research, and I found that prolapsed penises happen a lot in drakes that have the duck plague (Duck Viral Enteritis, or DVE), which I thought was interesting. I wonder why that is?

Believe me I know it all..He is healthy and produces fantastic Ducklings..He has no illness.

 

[chickens really]

Oh sorry if you thought that was aimed at you. That was just a general type post for the whole thread

No I just replied..

 

[chickens really]

Also I did ask if it could be sexually transmitted and they totally didn't believe that is the case at all..It was scary thinking all the thoughts I had..

 

[chickens really]

Anyways ..I did not find it funny..

 

[Jenbirdee]

I tried having a drake with my girls a few times but none of them worked out ~ the first 2 freaked out my youngest daughter (when she was a teenager) and she thought he was killing the girls ~ she kept running out back and screaming at them ~ and the last one we tried wouldnt allow my oldest disabled hen into the coop during a freezing rain storm and she was shivering covered in ice ~ that was it for him~ no more drakes here since

 

[Nero70002]

IF I had 2 call drakes to 3 normal females do you think I’d be able to keep them together? Or would I have to keep the hens separate or would have to do 1 or 2 hens per drake?