Will my two ducks welcome or become friends with two more ducks?

[Miss Lydia]

Apologies if I reply to all of the messages, I can’t figure out back yard chicken lol. Here they are though.

They are pretty have they met the Todd and Carol?

 

[Yardmom]

I hope your ducks are all doing well. Not all of your ducks are the same subspecies. Muscovies do not speak the same language as your other ducks. Most domestic ducks were derived from mallards, but Muscovies were not. When I had Muscovies they were more likely to hang out with the chickens than they were to hang out with mallard deprived ducks. I find it interesting that Tod and Douglas seemed more bonded than Douglas and Carol.
As far as if Tod and your new ducks will bond, only time will tell since mallards naturally break into breeding pairs in early spring, but flock up in the fall. In small domestic flocks ducks tend to flock up all year, but in some flocks with multiple drakes a breeding pair may go their own way all year long. This is more likely to happen when the ducks were not raised together.
With only 3 mallard derived ducks I would guess them to form a bonded treo. Carol will likely continue to do her own thing.

 

[Wendel_]

I started with Muscovy and they are so quiet. I was in for a big surprise when I got Runners and Buffs and Cayuga those girls love to make noise.

How long do you think it’ll take for the two to warm up to us. Unfortunately I’m busy throughout the day so I don’t think I’ll get to see them all the time. I also live on a small river do you think they’d swim away? Just not sure if they’d know to stick around. Todd and carol we’ve had since they were like a week old. The Cayuga is two years old and I’m not sure about the khaki.

 

[Wendel_]

I hope your ducks are all doing well. Not all of your ducks are the same subspecies. Muscovies do not speak the same language as your other ducks. Most domestic ducks were derived from mallards, but Muscovies were not. When I had Muscovies they were more likely to hang out with the chickens than they were to hang out with mallard deprived ducks. I find it interesting that Tod and Douglas seemed more bonded than Douglas and Carol.
As far as if Tod and your new ducks will bond, only time will tell since mallards naturally break into breeding pairs in early spring, but flock up in the fall. In small domestic flocks ducks tend to flock up all year, but in some flocks with multiple drakes a breeding pair may go their own way all year long. This is more likely to happen when the ducks were not raised together.
With only 3 mallard derived ducks I would guess them to form a bonded treo. Carol will likely continue to do her own thing.

This is very helpful thank you. Carol has been around Todd a bit more recently but they aren’t together all day like Douglas and Todd were. I think Todd is happy to have two new ducks though because he followed us when we put the new ones in the coop!

 

[Miss Lydia]

I believe I would keep them penned up for at least a week so they get used to their new home. As for the river we live about a small mt river I don't let my ducks go down to it to many predators.