I just made a new post as our new duck is not integrating well. I had not seen your reply here before and just wanted to acknowledge it. It's weird as it's not breeding season and they had a good two weeks of getting to know her through a fence.
oh my gosh, this is exactly what I was thinking when i saw people in various places talk about putting new ducks in the coop at night, but I hadn't come up with the hilarious and accurate way of wording it that you have :D
I've read a lot of threads on here about integrating a new duck into the flock, but most of them honestly are very short, not a lot of comments, and often highly situation specific. If this already exists somewhere else feel free to point me in that direction, but if not, I'd love for us to...