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[counturchickens]

I am planning to add to my flock by adding a couple of ducks, either call ducks or East Indians. They will have a seperate house, but share the wir (there is lots of room). Question is, when I do the intros, can they move straight in or do I need to follow the new chicken routine?

[coppers]

When I introduced my 2 ducks to 2 elderly hens a while back (they had been living completely separately) I let them all out to free range and watched with baited breath. I expected the hens to be spiteful towards the ducks, as they would be to new hens. Maybe I was very lucky but there were no problems at all and they all ate from the same lot of thrown corn. If you get the picture? They went back to their own eglus and pens afterwards.

 

I recently found myself down to one hen and one duck and I wanted them to be together so that they could be company for one another. They are roughly the same size. The hen, Lupin, is in a cube with 3m run whilst Daisy duck is in a walk in pen with an eglu classic. Each morning I now carry Daisy over and pop her in the cube run with Lupin. I was worried about this, expecting Lupin to be territorial, but again all has been fine. If anything, Daisy is the boss which I didn't expect at all. They free range when I can physically be out in the garden with them. When it starts to get dark and they are both in the cube run, Lupin goes up the cube ladder to bed and I open the cube run door and call Daisy out. She then waddles over to her pen to spend the night. She learnt the drill after just one evening! It is working really well and they are so cute together in the cube run.

 

When my garden renovations are completed they will have both of their homes joined up so they will have lots of room but they do seem okay at the moment in the cube run. It shouldn't be for much longer.

[Chortle Chook]

My little ducks get on just fine with my chickens and did so from day one. Like coppers I just let them free range together from day one. Initially I think the chickens were a bit surprised and did not quite know what the ducks were but there was no nastyness. Now I'd say that my ducks have the upper hand though why I just don't know as they are such harmless little critters. The only thing I'd suggest is that as your chickens are standards, then East Indians might be a better size to go with them, than call ducks which are more bantam chicken sized.

[mollyripkim]

Same here, I let my two little call ducks FR straight away with my bantams, if anything the girls were a bit wary of the ducks. Poor Cilla and Esme, both black chickens suffered as the ducks initially kept running after them and trying to get underneath them. Turned out the ducks had been hatched under a black hen, it sorted itself out as the ducks got older and the girls had plenty of places to get away from them, they never once pecked the ducks though. Now they are a happy little flock together.