2019 Spring Ducklings are here!

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Nothing scarier than to look out your window and seeing a rabid raccoon walking up your driveway screaming. My dh took care of that one. Then had another encounter with one also .. I don't take a hike or walk without a gun. Eastern NC just had a bear with rabies.

Just learned from the folks around us that it is the same situation here in WV!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I also meant to say so sorry. So much work and attachment. Sorry you had to see and hear that. Funny but my Buffs were always the most susceptible to predators.

It might be their friendliness that adds to their vulnerability. My buffs are super-friendly and the drake is like a little teddy-bear, i could hug him the whole day and spoil him with worms, but it wouldn't be good for both of us. The white layers are bitchy! They even jump their brooder-companions now. Nona, my smallest Runner duck is afraid of them.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Ohhhhhh WBHB I'm so so sorry! How did it get in????

It didn't! We came back home late and the ducks were still outside…

 

[SailorNoMore]

I am sad for what you have gone through. I hope that between you and the neighbors that you all destroy enough of the raccoons to make the survivors find another location.

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

It might be their friendliness that adds to their vulnerability. My buffs are super-friendly and the drake is like a little teddy-bear, i could hug him the whole day and spoil him with worms, but it wouldn't be good for both of us. The white layers are bitchy! They even jump their brooder-companions now. Nona, my smallest Runner duck is afraid of them.

was it your drake or one of the two hens?

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

was it your drake or one of the two hens?

It looks like the racoon took "Violeta", the all-time smallest of the Buff-Orpingtons, the one with the violet legband. So i'm down to two ½ drakes for 15 ducks, guess i can forget about fertile eggs…

 

[Miss Lydia]

Two half drakes?

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

Which half I wonder. Top, bottom or split vertically??

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Two half drakes?

Which half I wonder. Top, bottom or split vertically??

I did not mean it literally! - Limpy simply doesn't understand the concept of mating, when Nona flattens out for him and tries to seduce him, he runs around her rasping concerned as if he is afraid that she is sick. And the little Buff Orpington drake is way too young…

 

[Texag87]

I do not know how runners reproduce . Bandit is mostly the same way. He will mate from time to time but not as often as our KC. Give Buffydrake a little time. You will have fertile eggs by the end of summer.