Re: Aggressive domestic duck


"Jill" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Peggy wrote:
Hi,
I hatched a duckling out years ago..It also turned out to be a male.
I got him some girls and he kept going for me..
I found out when he got older that he thought I was his mate so did
not want any thing to do with the other ducks.

Sometimes they will revert well - sometimes they don't
Thats why Tina said "and see what happens"

I once hatched only one chick from a batch of about 8. Incubator..
So I reared it under a lamp and it turned out to be male. He spent all his
early life alone, as I didn't have anything of the same age to put him with.
He was a magnificent Sicilian Buttercup cockerel. When he matured I put him
with some hens. I thought he would be thrilled - he wasn't.
He beat them up so severely I feared for their lives and had to take them
away. He didn't seem to know he was a chicken - and how would he? He'd
heard them, but never seen one.
I won't do that again. I had no idea that rearing him alone would give him
an identity crisis.

Tina


As domestic ducks do not "pair bond" as the wild species do. there is no
reason why a drake should maintain a particular connection -- however
aggression is about dominance and if an animal has decided that a person
is there to be bullied they will.

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regards
Jill Bowis

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