In Sept of 2007 I went to the Boston Poultry Show. I loved the call ducks and a breeder had four in a cage for sale.She was from MAINE and her calls were in the show including two of the ones for sale. There were two butterscotch (blondes) colored females, A gray male (Looking like a Mallard)
and a butterscotch male. She said she had to sell them in pairs as they were paired off. I took them home and after awhile let them in with the other ducks. They were fine with the other ducks and as a foursome really were content and happy. They look like four rubber Duckies in their shape.
HOWEVER as you all might remember this past Dec 2nd a hawk grabbed a female (named Butterfly) and I chased it down. I rushed her to the vet and she although injured seem to bounce back and be fine. She was always the frail one of the group but feisty. THEN about a month ago she got sick and died of some sort of infection or scar tissue in her neck. The hawk had given her some puncture wound She was the mate of the Butterscotch male whose name was Butterscotch.
After we got back from the vet without her Butterscotch was without a wife and not happy.
SO he stole away (and she went willingly for some reason) the mate female named LYNETTE. belonging to the Gray duck whose name is LLBEAN. So trouble in paradise began at that point with the two males fighting and fighting and fighting. I had to separate them since the one named LLBEAN is smaller and was getting beat upon.SO I decided I would call every call duck breeder on my list including the one in MAINE. Even when the gray was not even bothering the wayward couple (LYNETTE and Butterscotch) the male would chase him out of the flock. She would sit at the water dish like a queen and could care less about this. SHE had a female Call duck who was the same color variety called GRAY. I thought great that this would work out having a pair of the same and they would all get along again.So to get that girl GRAY from MAINE was interesting in itself asbrought the duck down to meet me at the Exit 6 truck stop.She was pretty plain and unattractive I have to admit but very friendly and used to being picked up.I put her in a cage next to a cage with the Gray womanless male duck and she fell in love. HOWEVER the male duck (LLBEAN) was not that interested in her and after a week seems to still want his own mate. (LYNETTE)In the cage together these two get along but he pecks her some and makes her wait until he eats and drinks first.YESTERDAY the weather was nice so I put them out in the duck run. THE TWO males got into a terrible fight and they still both want the ordinal duck vamp LYNETTE.HOW DO I GET THEM PAIRED OFF AGAIN to be happy once more as a foursome? The larger male beats the heck out of the gray male. THE GRAY male (who is the color of a wild mallard) wants his original mate back and no one wants that new little girl Plain Jane from MAINE.SO NOW This is throwing off the whole pecking order in the flock causing in fighting.
At one point my female Cayuga duck went over and tried to stop this fighting.
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Egg Swap (HOW TO get more babies in a hatch)by irwinke24,975 views
when's the next episode of ducks of our lives coming out!!!???
dramaaddict007 1 year ago