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RE: Amazing Nature Contest - January 2020 - 4 A Story With Teaching.
Never realized the drakes will kill all the ducklings like that making the female ready to mate again soon.
Perhaps once the eggs are laid remove him from the enclosure giving the female time to raise the young.
Being an older guy I would go in with gloves on he will most probably attack if he is this aggressive already.
We had a female duck when young, no drake so found chicken eggs for her to lay on when broody. She raised 4 of the original 7, three died with her trying to teach them to swim when we were not looking.
Too bad @joanstewart, these ducks are able to swim from 3 days of hatching and they look beautiful swimming all together following their mom. Unfortunately we have to learn the things of animals by watching them, observing their movements. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Animals do strange things, some don't have young when we have droughts, others kill their young if born deformed. Males in different special are known to kill the young of another males offshoot to procreate, not often they kill their own to procreate again so soon. Hope you find a way to continue breeding without the killing field....