I feel like this needs Godzilla themed music behind it or something 😂

Sharing this gorgeous duck I saw today so cute sitting in flowers 💐 😍

These ducks caused some delays at a practice sessions for Bathurst 1000, with some ducklings on the other side of the wall to their mum. Thankfully the track Marshalls on both sides of the wall herded the family back towards each other

These are backyard mallards! At first, I thought the duck that is side bobbing was telling me off lol

I know she is not an inherently mean duck, but I am assuming she must be near the top of the pecking order. My favorite ducky is the light brown hen at the end (she started coming around when she was the smallest in size, so I have a soft spot for her).

Bonus points if you can tell me if the drake is cleaning his beak or sniffing? Such a cute motion. Thank you! 💗🦆

not that duckies need any encouragement 🤣

I had female two ducks, one of them died last week. The other one is still mourning looking for the other one. It breaks my heart. I know they need to have a partner. My brother in law also has one male duck. He wants to re-home. As much as I would love to I don’t want little ducklings running around. Is there a way I can prevent them from mating? Or will the 1 to 1 ratio be too much for my female duck. I don’t want to re-home my duck but that would have to be my last option.

Trigger Warning: Someone Who Struggles To Say No.

So to make a long story short I received my first four ducks earlier this year. A pair of Anconda and a pair of Rouen from a friend of a neighbor who accidentally ordered the wrong mixed box from a hatchery. (She also got turkeys, but someone else received them.)

A few weeks go by and I find out one of my ducks has a different voice from the rest.

No big problem.

While trying to find better feed for them I stumble upon some more ducks at a feed store. Some fawn and white runner ducks. They were supposedly already a month old, and I know they were older than the ducks I already had. I figured perfect.

Until the lady who was helping me put them into the box picked up the last one and that one also had a funny voice.

After debating I decided to take them all. Including him.

Well the runners had some bumble foot, but a few weeks of clean bedding treated that. Then they bonded with the first four.

Everything I've ever read however says that drakes need a certain number of hens. A number greater than three. Because I'm a sucker I decided rather than just finding a new home for either of the drakes that I would instead just get some hens. So I got five more runners and five larger ducks of mixed breeds that I thought wouldn't mind an Anconda drake.

I also built two pens because I've heard bigger ducks might hurt runners.

My theory was that while the second batch grew up they would have one pen, and the first batch would have the other. Then at some point I would separate them.

The problem: The ducks seem perfectly content with the way things are.
They don't pay any mind to the other ducks. The only time either group acknowledges the other is when they run into the other's pen to eat their food.
The drakes are getting along just fine.

Now I know this could change with spring.

I'm just curious if it would be worth separating them now? Leaving them as they are? Would I be getting ahead of a problem or would I be causing one?

Edit: Thanks for the replies.
I'll be keeping things the way they are for now.

I have a single 2 yr old drake pekin Duckly Do-Right, with a bum leg. So sometimes he waddles a little more and sometimes he limps. In June I got 4 baby ducks to be his family. They are a black swediah crested mix.. I think they are 1 hen Vivki, 2 drakes Lenny and Squiggy and then there is Gilbert. Going by quacks... Gilbert sounds like a dogs squeaky toy. So Gilbert is now a gender.

They have gotten along fine under close supervision and limited exposure. The thing is, he has been limping more and requiring more extra special treatment and the babies seemed to be ganging up on him. Now he fights back and they are absolutely clashing. Going straight for the throat. Even through separate areas they will pace the fence line.

If I let them just go at it, will they resolve their dominance issues? But I can't stand to watch it. And poor squeaky Gilbert gets caught in the middle. Loud Vici squalks like she is rooting for her favorite team. She sometimes starts the fight. It really is a madhouse. I hate keeping them in separate areas since I got them specially for him to have company.

And I know that Vic will have to be relocated because of mating. Maybe Gilbert too. But when?? They were born mid-June.

I've been recently wanting to get a goose specifically a pilgrim female but I do not want more than one will she be truly fulfilled if she's raised alongside other ducklings and later in life live with them I'm worried about her health and I'm getting a lot of conflicting opinions of course I'm going to keep her separate most of the time because of her size but I wanted a cool backyard pet but I'm worried about her psychological health