I hatchted 2 runner ducklings last year but sadly one died which left one lonely so i had no choice but to put in a single chick with it to get it to calm down. The duckling grew up fine but when him and the chick reached maturity, the chick turned out to be a cockerel and was harrassing all the female ducks so we had to get rid of him.
The other ducks wouldnt accept the drake so he followed the hens and turkeys around instead but he started acting like a turkey, the way that turkey hens fight with each other - he started doing that. So we seperated him into a pe with a single female runner to trya dn get them to bond. He went mad stuck inside the pen so we let them out and he has bonded with the duck. But now he attacks all the hens and other ducks, hes so bad he chases everything out of the garden and he had half his feathers pulled out by the other drakes. We decided that we have to get rid of him, (hopefully to someone with just female ducks but chances are looking slim right now) but first i decided to try and get the female runner to go broody and hatch some more runners and she has laid about 6 eggs in a nest so far but the drake seems to be trying to sit on them?
He might just be sitting in there to keep out the rain but it looks like hes sitting on the nest. What on earth do i do with him?
Could he just be confused as to what he is after being raised with a chick?
I have hen and duck eggs in the incubator right now but it looks like only 1 duck egg is going to hatch which means it will be raised with chicks aswell, will he turn out like that weird drake?
Sorry its so long and has anyone else had problems like this?
thank you for any help
The other ducks wouldnt accept the drake so he followed the hens and turkeys around instead but he started acting like a turkey, the way that turkey hens fight with each other - he started doing that. So we seperated him into a pe with a single female runner to trya dn get them to bond. He went mad stuck inside the pen so we let them out and he has bonded with the duck. But now he attacks all the hens and other ducks, hes so bad he chases everything out of the garden and he had half his feathers pulled out by the other drakes. We decided that we have to get rid of him, (hopefully to someone with just female ducks but chances are looking slim right now) but first i decided to try and get the female runner to go broody and hatch some more runners and she has laid about 6 eggs in a nest so far but the drake seems to be trying to sit on them?
He might just be sitting in there to keep out the rain but it looks like hes sitting on the nest. What on earth do i do with him?
I have hen and duck eggs in the incubator right now but it looks like only 1 duck egg is going to hatch which means it will be raised with chicks aswell, will he turn out like that weird drake?
Sorry its so long and has anyone else had problems like this?
thank you for any help
