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ShelbyCiave
Chirping
My barn is small and was already separated to keep the drakes from attacking my pig and hens all night. So now, I rotated the delisting drakes into the smaller house away from the barn and the 8 new ducklings into the other half of the barn because they needed more space and i didn’t anticipate taking on the extra 4. I’ll take pics and post them.It is hard to picture what you've got going on in your run/pen. Can you not make another area in the barn. It doesn't take much to divide areas to keep them apart. Can you send pictures?
My boys and girls are separated with a welded wire fence between the 2 groups in their outdoor run. There are food buckets and water for each group. At night I put the girls in one pen and the boys in the other.
I've got 12 girls and 4 boys and the boys just don't know how to act which is why they are apart. I had a couple of girls snatched almost bald-headed and I knew I had to separate. Hopefully in the fall once the mating season is over they can all be together which is a lot less work. I guess I'm just used to it. Last year was worse. I had 4 sick girls, then the boys and the rest of the girls all in separate runs and pens.