Urgent help about ducklings

[DottyDillys]

I have a 3 week old duckling and someone brought a few day old abandoned mallard duckling to us yesterday. I thought it would be company for our only hatched duckling but unfortunately it is really aggressive to it and I cant keep them together. I was planning on getting a companion for ours and thought this would be the answer. Will my older duckling always be aggressive as I will have to rehome otherwise???

 

[PippinTheChicken]

I don't have ducks but maybe if you get a few more ducklings the older one won't be as agressive?

 

[neo71665]

If the mallard was from a wild flock, you are US based, its a felony for you to have it without the proper license.

 

[SolarDuck]

If the mallard was from a wild flock, you are US based, its a felony for you to have it without the proper license.

X2, if it is a wild mallard, you need to find a wildlife rehab you cannot just keep it.

 

[gimmie birdies]

We have wild turkeys in our area, one time a turkey hen mated with our tom and laid her eggs in with our domestic turkey eggs. When they hatched you could tell the diff. I asked a game and wild life about it. He told me if the turkey is in my coop, it is domestic, if is outside of my coop it is considered wild. I no longer have any turkeys. The turkeys in our area are not natural, someone dumped a bunch. IDK if that is the reason the Wild life guy didn't really care or not.

When I was a little girl I had a brown roan female duck. I went to the beach with the duck and let it play with the other ducks, but when it was time to go home I called it and it hopped in my box and we went home. Some people saw that, and called fish and wild life on us, and my dad said "How many wild ducks do you know come when it is called and hops in the box you brought?" We didn't get bothered anymore after that.

 

[TheDuckGuy]

I have a 3 week old duckling and someone brought a few day old abandoned mallard duckling to us yesterday. I thought it would be company for our only hatched duckling but unfortunately it is really aggressive to it and I cant keep them together. I was planning on getting a companion for ours and thought this would be the answer. Will my older duckling always be aggressive as I will have to rehome otherwise???

Just practice and put them in a separate see through cage or something and let them connect AFTER you contact wildlife services

 

[Nicip]

Mallards have a different way of being in the world … they are, by wild instinct, less docile than domestics. Be careful your mallard doesn’t hurt your duckling … more time near each other and separated might bond them… if not, a bird rescue might be a better place .