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Gloria, you can probably let them out supervised to make sure your chickens wont hurt them, there might be some sort of pecking order at first, but as long as they are not hurting them real bad they should be ok and will figure out where they stand in the coop.
I am guessing you have 1 hen and 3 drakes, what breed are they? The hens will QUACK loud while the drakes will have a raspy type quack, if you pick them up you might hear it, or pick them up and take them a little out of site of there friends and they will try to talk to them to find where they are at and you could hear it then.
Sometimes hens will get the curl, and sometimes the drakes will look like hens! I have never had a hen with a curl but I have had a drake that looked like a hen. He from what I understand, I got rid of him, was not fertile. It doesnt happen to often I dont think.
If they are infact all male, looks like your friend is willing to trade you for a hen, that would be a good deal and idea, come breeding season you might find your hen with missing head and neck feathers and tore up back feathers from breeding, but then again maybe not. One drake can cover quite a few hens. So that might be a good idea to add another hen or 2.
Good luck!
Thanks for your help. I let them out yesterday into the coop and run. They did really well. The chickens seem to just ignore them and go on about their business. Of course the ducks stay together. I guess they got our routine down pretty good because they went inside by their self last night. Didn't need me to help get them in there, which was great.
I hope I don't have 1 duck and 3 drakes, but I really think they are all 3 drakes. It's nice to know Miss Jayne will trade me a duck for one of my drakes. If that is the case that 3 are drakes. She's a good woman, that Miss Jayne!
