Quackattack717
Songster
Hi there! So I have a small flock, my first two ducks were muscovies (although we bought them under the impression they were Pekins) we love them. We love their personalities and how unquie they are. But they’re so so so so mean to our lone Rouen (or mallard, we aren’t sure what she is now), her sister was taken by a hawk a little over a month ago so she’s all alone besides the chickens and Muscovies, who are really mean to her. We have two WH moving outside this week but Shadow (the lone duck) is really mean to them. This week will be their first week in their new enclosure since the hawk attacks. They been cooped up everyday while we worked since Spunky (shadows sister) was taken. We built them a 32ft by 25ft enclosure. It takes up most of what was left of our yard. We have 7ft post and bird netting over top! I’m worried they’re going to be even meaner to Shadow & possibly hurt her because they area is going from total free-range, to a smaller area they can’t escape from... but they’ll be safe from flying predators but they don’t understand that! We plan to have multiple sources of water and food to help keep them separate. It’s a pretty large area. Will my muscovies ever quit being huge assholes to everyone? Mostly to shadow but they are assholes to the chickens too! They just reached mating age, I don’t know if that has anything to do with it. Sometimes my female Muscovy is meaner to shadow than the male. I just don’t know! It worries me, we love all of our flock, we just want them to be a flock and get along with each other!!