So, the simple answer is yes, but there are some considerable caveats to that.
Ultimately, neither animal is really in very much danger.
But that doesn’t mean you should be complacent.
If you want them to bond and share a space, you’re going to need to monitor them quite carefully to make sure they are behaving properly.
Let’s look further into this.
Do ducks get along with goats?
In general, yes, ducks do get along with goats.
Ducks are, for the most part, docile, and don’t tend to seek confrontation with other species—especially bigger animals like goats.
However, at the same time, the very fact of their ability to fly does tend to make them a little bolder than other animals of similar size.
The most important thing is that every individual animal has all of their needs met.
Think about everything they need—obviously, the most important things are food, shelter, and, for goats, company.
If the duck feels its food, or its living space, is threatened by the presence of the goats, then it may start to resent them.
The same is true of the other way around.
So, make sure that both groups of animals have adequate food and living space, and you should have no problem getting them to live peacefully together.
But these two species are very different, fundamentally, so there are considerable risks you need to be aware of.
Are goats aggressive towards ducks?
With a properly domesticated and docile goat, raised in the correct way, there should be no issue with aggressiveness.
However, this isn’t always the case.
As I said, goats are unique in that individuals of the species have a lot of variation in temperament.
While it’s rare, you may have a goat who simply won’t tolerate ducks at all.
However, for the most part, a goat should not feel threatened by a duck, and the duck, given adequate feed, should have no reason to bother the goat and provoke it.
How they are raised will, however, make a huge difference.
In terms of aggression from the goat, you’re almost certainly going to see it from a male, if you see it at all.
Typically, if it is not a male you plan on breeding, then the best way to curb aggressive tendencies is to castrate it at a young age.
If the male does have much less testosterone in its system from the castration, aggressive tendencies will be more or less eliminated.
The other thing, though, is how you introduce the two to one another.
If you take a group of mature goats and a group of mature ducks and put them together later in life, they might get on each other’s nerves considerably more than if they were socialized at a young age.
In any case, there is plainly a lot to consider—the best-case scenario is having the two groups mingling from as early as possible, getting used to one another.
You should have no problem with aggression if you do this.
Can goats and ducks share feed?
They can share some types of food, and they will enjoy a lot of the same snacks—like fruits or vegetables, or even some kinds of seed.
However, this is one area where you should generally try and separate them.
Feeding together is one thing simply in the sense that they are more likely to annoy one another.
Beyond that, though, the two species naturally have quite different nutritional needs.
So, the simple answer is no, they shouldn’t have the same diet.
They can certainly share some food, but they have different needs that you should be well aware of.
Can a goat kill a duck?
Yes, it certainly could, although this is very unlikely.
Again, this kind of aggression is quite simple to curb, if you follow the steps mentioned above.
A goat would never seek to deliberately kill a duck in these circumstances.
That said, they could well do so by accident, although in admittedly extremely rare cases.
Ducks are much faster than goats, and so would most likely get out of the way of any attack.
In any case, whenever you first introduce the two to each other, make sure to keep a close eye on them as much as you can for the first few days.
This is where most of the problem behavior will crop up.
So, while both creatures are generally pretty docile, at the same time, you always need to be fully aware of how they are acting.
There are a lot of factors that will contribute to their behavior, both generally and towards other animals.
As a good rule of thumb, as long as both goats and ducks want for nothing and have all their needs met, there’s no reason they shouldn’t get along.
Always take each case individually, though, and don’t go in sure of anything.