We moved our duck outside, he turned mean!

[barnababy]

I don't think you should try putting ducklings in with a hormonal drake the ducklings won't make it. The ducklings need to be at least adult size and then females may have to be kept away until at least ready to lay so he won't mate with them too early. What breed is Nibbles?

The behavior your seeing is very normal especially with drakes so don't take it personal. But you can start training him to act nice .
Take the broom out with you when you go into Nibbles area when he starts for you put the broom between you and him don't let him come any closer if he tries hold him down by putting one hand at base of neck and the other where tail and back meet. hold him down on his belly till he quits fighting. You will be acting like a dominant drake to him. This all may sound hard but believe me it works my drake was a had full till I was told how to train him and it worked. For some reason having on different shoes gets them going too, I wore flip flops out the other night and my drake started biting my toes. A few shoves off and he was okay. So wearing the same shoes may help with the feet biting. When I wear my rubber boots I don't have this problem. Big thing is be persistent.

My Drake is exactly the same when I rescued him and adopted him into the house he was the sweetest thing and terrified of my two female Pekin and once I put him outside he like to rough house with a dog and the dog now lives elsewhere and he is the biggest spider in the bites like I think he thinks he's playing but now he's getting just aggressive flat out and if I wear anything that he can get to skin on my feet or my hands anywhere he attacks like horribly

 

[Miss Lydia]

My Drake is exactly the same when I rescued him and adopted him into the house he was the sweetest thing and terrified of my two female Pekin and once I put him outside he like to rough house with a dog and the dog now lives elsewhere and he is the biggest spider in the bites like I think he thinks he's playing but now he's getting just aggressive flat out and if I wear anything that he can get to skin on my feet or my hands anywhere he attacks like horribly

@barnabay are you working on training him? I came home from the feed store today and my drake started attacking my legs as soon as I walked inside the gate. I held him down 2X first time didn't work after 2nd time he walked off like he had come to his senses. lol ..They just have to know we are not going to put up with their foolishness.

 

[AmandaMBG]

I agree you guys just need to put your drakes in their place. They need to know they can't mess with you. And you really shouldn't keep any duck alone but I think you realized that. We just introduced a little drake I rescued from a local fishing pond to my three girls (he's around 10 weeks or so I'd guess) they loved him immediately and he follows them around everywhere. That is with all girls though. I would have never introduced him so young if I already had a boy. He will be sooo happy when you give him some girls

 

[purslanegarden]

Thanks for this info. We used to have a drake that did this and didn't know why. We just ended up wearing closed-toe shoes whenever we went out to feed them! Now I'll know more about how to prevent it if any drakes begin showing this behavior (though the comment about wanting to get back into the flock is so sad, hope you/OP can get him some friends soon)

I do agree it would seem strange for the duck raised in the house with constant human interaction (basically his family or acquaintances) to suddenly be put outside with rare human interaction.