I’m so sorry for your loss! Ducks have woefully inadequate defenses against predators. We do our best to protect them, but they are still at the bottom of the food chain and it sucks. I very much hope that the rest of your ducks are ok and that you are able to fix the gap where the hawk got...
Hopefully, our neighbor’s chickens are ok. Sadly, the only weapons we have in the house are cheap steak knives. While I’m relatively sure that the barn is secure, at least as far as owls go, I will now have to resort to being painfully paranoid rather than simply extremely cautious when they are...
So, we’ve had idk how much snow over the past couple of days. I’ll estimate a foot, maybe more. Anyways, I arrived home from work to a stunningly beautiful winter wonderland. I eagerly went to let the ducks out so that they could check out the snow and filled the cement mixing tub with water so...