Update: I rounded up all of the females and put them in a pen. They don’t seem to be getting along. Not sure if I will be able to keep them all in there or not.
We have had really good success with them and surprised they have made it this long. We wanted to give them a chance of living a good life and not become food! Lol
We assume coyote may have gotten them. They were here one day and gone the next. That’s one of the hazards of free ranging, but we found our ducks are actually safer on the water with a pier than on land especially at night. We are in south Louisiana. Mating does calm down for a few months, but...
Sadly we recently lost two of our females. We will figure out a way to separate them as that’s the hardest part since they free range 100%. Sure wish they would make something you could put on the females or spray on them that would deter those darn males! Love our two males when it’s NOT mating...
We have 2 male pekin ducks, 3 female pekin and 2 Rouen female ducks. Then we have wild mallard males that constantly fly in. And that’s part of the problem. The wild mallards help the male pekin ducks mate and they constantly are mating one particular female to where she has feather loss. The...