Is my female duck ready to mate? Behavior ?

[Isaac 0]

Yes.

 

[Jase 2020]

Yes.

So you think that their will be a chance of fertile eggs

 

[Isaac 0]

So you think that their will be a chance of fertile eggs

Yes.

 

[Jase 2020]

Yes.

Well my daughter will be impressed

 

[Jase 2020]

Yes.

my female has been head bobbing like she is going to peck the floor and fluffing up with her beak opening and closing is that normal flirting behaviour

 

[Jase 2020]

That's her laying down

 

[Jase 2020]

Are they mature enough to successfully produce fertile eggs?

She has been laying down on the floor loads today

 

[Moments]

This is a pretty old thread, hopefully replying will put it to the top of the list again - it's the first I have seen that describes my duck's behavior. My duck hatched in February and I am certain she is a she - quacks, no drake feather.

My little Tootsie keeps coming up to me, my daughter and the dog and flattening herself out. She'll come up to us, kind of sit on the ground and stretch her neck as flat as she can then make a noise that is somewhere in between a quack and a purr. When you pet her back she hikes her tail straight up. Initially I thought she just wanted some lovin' from us but now I am thinking it's a different kind of lovin' she is after. If she is laying eggs she is not doing so in the hen house. She now roams during the day with the chickens because she was wearing a path pacing when they'd fly the coop. For the sake of her sanity I had start keeping the coop door propped open so she can come and go with them.

Hoping someone can finally (definitively) tell me what she's saying/wanting, as the hardware store that I bought her from said they've never seen that before (I showed them a video of it). So I have that question, and then am also wondering, if she is wishing to mate can I take her to play at a drake's house for a day or does it not work like that? Oh, and I guess I should also ask, if I managed to pull something like that off and hatched a drake later, would I have to worry that future ducklings would swim in circles or have inbred issues? {that could be a dumb question but I honestly don't know}

I sincerely appreciate the help!

My female is 3 under 3 months and has been doing this. She either lays on ground with head out and waits or at the side of the pool neck stretched out and head sitting on the side. One of our drakes who was in the pool gently started nibbling at her head until another broke it up. I read they're not ready til about 5 months. A few weeks ago one of my drakes looked like he was trying to mate, on the females back in the pool and grabbing the back of her head with his beak. I was assured by someone who's been raising ducks for decades that they're too young to mate which I figured but was wondering if it could be something like practice behavior. She said play can sometimes look like an effort to mate but definitely looked like everything I've read so I dunno.

 

[Miss Lydia]

They do play mate or my Runners and Buffs did. My Runners and Buffs were also mating at 4 months old and laying at 4.5 months old.