why are my ducks fighting with each other?

[Quacking ducks]

Hi, 2 of my female ducks keep fighting with each other as well as a drake and female and also my 2 drakes. Does anyone know why they are all fighting? what should I do?
Thank you

 

[Duck mommy 2019]

Hi, 2 of my female ducks keep fighting with each other as well as a drake and female and also my 2 drakes. Does anyone know why they are all fighting? what should I do?
Thank you

what’s your male to female ratio?
what do you mean by fighting? neck grabbing?

 

[Quacking ducks]

2 drakes 6 females. Yes they are grabbing neck, head and chest. Normally they are pretty nice. it's only been the last couple weeks that I've had trouble with them. I would post a video of them, but I don't know how.

 

[Duckbreeder2020]

2 drakes 6 females. Yes they are grabbing neck, head and chest. Normally they are pretty nice. it's only been the last couple weeks that I've had trouble with them. I would post a video of them, but I don't know how.

Sound like breeding. I have no idea why the females are fighting though.

 

[Duck mommy 2019]

they are mating, my girls mate with each other

 

[Trisseh]

My one girl was super irritable while molting this year. Pulling feathers out of the other girls, grabbing the drakes and dragging them around, and just being overall miserable. She’s improved now that she’s all finished.
also, mating behaviour is not always about procreation - sometimes it’s a dominance thing.

 

[Duckbreeder2020]

My one girl was super irritable while molting this year. Pulling feathers out of the other girls, grabbing the drakes and dragging them around, and just being overall miserable. She’s improved now that she’s all finished.
also, mating behaviour is not always about procreation - sometimes it’s a dominance thing.

It could be. It does sound like it’s breeding though, otherwise I don’t know why the males are doing that to the females. The females are probably dominating and the males are probably trying to breed.

 

[Quacking ducks]

They are fighting from the front not the back though...

 

[Duckbreeder2020]

They are fighting from the front not the back though...
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Hmmm. They could be fight over territory, I didn’t think ducks did this but apparently they will

 

[Trisseh]

It could be. It does sound like it’s breeding though, otherwise I don’t know why the males are doing that to the females. The females are probably dominating and the males are probably trying to breed.

Maybe I misunderstood the OP but my understanding is the females doing the grabbing and fighting? Not sure where the OP is located but here everyone has wound down for winter and no mating is going on at all.
Could just be pecking order rearrangement, could be irritability for one reason or another; if the drakes are still trying to mate but the hens don’t want any of it they’ll fight back. Mine do anyways.
@Quacking ducks i see your girl is wearing booties in those pics. Were they separated for any length of time due to an injury or other reason? That sometimes upsets the hierarchy too.