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Good time to add to my 2 ducklings?

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I have two 10 week old ducklings, Kenny and Dolly. I rescued them when they were 2 weeks old from someone whose child had bought them from a farm at a day old, then realised they couldn't be raised in a child's bedroom without an outside space :roll: We have chickens already, and were intending to get ducks before the end of the summer anyway so we weren't completely clueless, though we had to learn a few things quickly and buy a duck house!

 

Anyway, my question is, would now be a good time to get another 2 or 3 girls to add in with them? Before they get much older and while we are still keeping them in full view of the house where we can watch them? And will it matter what breed we get? The current 2 are a mallard and a white (supposedly crested) duck. The only breed of a similar age for sale in our area are India Runners, and this is the breed I wanted anyway, but wondered if they would all be ok together. Or could I get younger ones to put in if we can't get any of the same age?

 

Thank you for any advice :)

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I've just added two little ducks (10 weeks old) to my original 2 ducks and was surprised by how easy it was - a lot easier than introducing chickens. :D A couple of years ago I did have a go at introducing one single duck to my existing pair and that really did not work as she got horribly bullied (the existing ducks kept trying to drown her and made her life wretched so I re-homed her). This time as there were 2 and 2 it all worked just fine. I separated their house for the first couple of nights however, so that I could get some good shut eye without worrying that the new wee ones were being bullied as they can see at night, unlike chickens.

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