Two Drakes and a Hen...

[Peep-Chicken]

I bought two female ducks a couple months ago for my lone drake. It now appears one of them is a male!
Two drakes and a hen probably won't work out right?
I do not have the space to add more females.
I don't know what to do now because all of my ducks are pets and not many people want drakes.

 

[gamebirdsonly]

Two drakes and one hen not good. If the drakes are like any I have had the poor hen will literally will be bred to death.

 

[gal5150]

Unfortunately, not likely to end well with the three of them together. It's so hard to rehome beloved pets, but it's even harder to live with the trauma of seeing one or more of your pets savage another. It is hard to rehome drakes but I would get started placing ads now. So sorry you ended up in this pickle.

 

[AtropineCaffein]

Truly, I have played with how many ducks to drakes and the ratio REALLY REALLY needs to be 1 drake to 4-5 or more ducks. At one point we had 6 drakes to about 15 ducks and that was NOT enough. We had to cull a bunch of drakes to keep the ducks from getting killed. They had also set their sights on one duck and were wearing her out to the point of injury and exhaustion.

We are now SERIOUS about 1:4 at the minimum. I hatched out 3:3, then bought 14 female ducklings. I have two drakes and about 7 ducks already (we recently lost two from predation). I plan to cull a couple of the three youngling drakes.

There are various dynamics that can come into play--we have two factions of ducks, each with a drake, and the drakes are more into counting coups by trying to mate with the other drake's ducks. They are also older and slower.

But with your group, you REALLY REALLY need at least 3 more ducks and one less drake IMO.

 

[chickens really]

Or get rid of the Hen and keep the Drakes?...They will breed each other once mature...

 

[Peep-Chicken]

Ah that's what I thought, thanks everyone.