🦆 The DUX has woken up! 🦆

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Update on the Dux: Did you know that wild wabbits are able to jump right over a tall person's head? - Trust me they can if an angry Momma Duck is chasing them.
Sunny had been scared by the Incubator-Gang's drakes many times yesterday (Friday) and today, i heart the angry quacks, pitta-patta from duck feet on the wooden patio-floor and she left her ducklings behind somewhere in the grass. In the end the little ones got so used to her momma running away, quacking that they even stopped calling for her. - »Why bother, she's coming back soon…(yawn!)«
But that quack this afternoon was different. It wasn't followed by a »pitta-patta« duck feet sound and it did not stop. Then something non-duck screamed in extreme fear! I ran outside in the direction where i knew Sunny was with her babies when something flew over my head, landed behind me and ran away, zig-zagging like a pinball.
Sunny wasn't done, there was another wild wabbit "threatening" her babies! Sunny was chasing that poor wabbit back and forth and up and down the hill, and when she finally grabbed its scut it jumped over the fence and disappeared in the tall grass.
😲
I was holding five of her ducklings this morning in her presence… 😱
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Then on the other hand, Sunny loves to eat kale, so do wabbits, maybe that was just food-envy? :confused:

Harry decided this evening that the Ducknagers are old enough to sleep in the dux-house. He just simply would not let them sleep on the patio. His protective instincts are extremely strong, but only towards the little ones: When the drakes chase Sunny, he doesn't care, but if another duck comes too close to the little ones he switches to »cobra-chicken mode«.
 
WannaBeHillBilly said:
Has anybody ever seen this behaviour from a Momma Duck before?
Sunny wants her ducklings out of the water, so she nudges them out, then grabs one of them by its neck lifts it up and sets it down on the ground.
@Pyxis @Magnolia Ducks @shawluvsbirds
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I have never seen that before Frank, that was quite interesting. Thanks for sharing.
 
Canadian Wind said:
I love how that last duckling is all "I'm out Mom! See??" then waits for Sunny to turn around and back into the water!
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I had the very same thought! :lau
I am not entirely sure, but one of the ducklings is a »Daddy's Child«, always drawn to Harry and not listening to what Sunny quacks. That might be this particular one.
 
Here is a video from yesterday evening, Sunny and her ducklings enjoy some relax-time on the open part of the patio when Laura and her almost ducknagers tried to join in. - Sunny is not allowing it! So they decided to raid Sunny's and Harry's food-bowl on the inside-patio. Revenge is a dish…
About one minute into the video you can see one of the ducklings through the railing outside in the grass with Harry Duckhini, that is the »daddy's child«
 
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WannaBeHillBilly said:
Here is a video from yesterday evening, Sunny and her ducklings enjoy some relax-time on the open part of the patio when Laura and her almost ducknagers tried to join in. - Sunny is not allowing it! So they decided to raid Sunny's and Harry's food-bowl on the inside-patio. Revenge is a dish…
About one minute into the video you can see one of the ducklings through the reeling outside in the grass with Harry Duckhini, that is the »daddy's child«
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So precious Frank!!
 
Luv Ducks said:
I have never seen that before Frank, that was quite interesting. Thanks for sharing.
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After thinking about your video Frank I did have a Drake that had to have done the same thing by taking the newborn duckling out of the nest to take it out to drown it. There was no way that it could have climbed out being newborn and ended up in the middle of my pen in a puddle drowned. He had to have picked it up in the same manner as Sunny. Strange what they are capable of doing.
 
WannaBeHillBilly said:
Has anybody ever seen this behaviour from a Momma Duck before?
Sunny wants her ducklings out of the water, so she nudges them out, then grabs one of them by its neck lifts it up and sets it down on the ground.
@Pyxis @Magnolia Ducks @shawluvsbirds
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😆 no i have not seen that, but it doesn't surprise me. I will say i noticed the Cayugas were a lot rougher with their ducklings than the calls. It's rough being a duckling. There are 1,000 ways to die in the dux yard, it appears not minding their mama could be 1,001
 

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