My drake is a bit of a bully to smaller birds so I am a little nervous but luckily we can keep a close eye on all the animals. He’s usually ok with other animals but will chase smaller birds around.
So far we have 11 fertile eggs (I know not all will hatch) so I’m pretty excited yet intimidated by having more than 2 babies. I hope the dad isn’t a bumhole to them!
I have 1 Pekín (female) and a welsh harlequin (drake). Luckily we have a really big pen so we can accommodate for the ducklings. Our Pekín is very protective of her eggs if anything I’m mainly concerned about the drake. Even though we raised duckings once it was only 2 but now we potentially...
So I’ve raised 2 ducklings before and was able to keep them inside during the first few weeks since I know they need to remain warm but now those ducklings are grown and having babies of their own and I’m just confused on how much “intervening” I need to do. We live in So-Cal and it’s fairly...