Any Hope??

[chickens really]

You could try putting the females in a dog kennel and bring them near the drake, Them qaucking and talking might ecourage him to come back or you could set a live trap and bait it with some food and see if he is hungry enough to enter the cage. Hopefully he comes back ! I know how crazy mallards can be sometimes.

Yes..Try it? Might work?..Mallards come here to get my Call hens each spring and my Drake tries to leave too..

 

[TheMallardDuck]

You could try putting the females in a dog kennel and bring them near the drake, Them qaucking and talking might ecourage him to come back or you could set a live trap and bait it with some food and see if he is hungry enough to enter the cage. Hopefully he comes back ! I know how crazy mallards can be sometimes.

Good idea but we have problems with that. I don’t know if the drake is still in the pond and I can’t set a trap as it’s a protected area by police. Both methods might seem weird to the police and the fence is high so the drake wouldn’t be able to get out unless he flies.

 

[chickens really]

Good idea but we have problems with that. I don’t know if the drake is still in the pond and I can’t set a trap as it’s a protected area by police. Both methods might seem weird to the police and the fence is high so the drake wouldn’t be able to get out unless he flies.

Call animal control and explain the situation? Maybe they can get the gate open to allow you to get the Drake?

 

[TheMallardDuck]

Call animal control and explain the situation? Maybe they can get the gate open to allow you to get the Drake?

There is no gate, just a fence surrounding the area, and we don’t know if he is still in there.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Can you go up to the fence with the two females in a crate and call him maybe shake a can of feed and see if he responds.

 

[chickens really]

There is no gate, just a fence surrounding the area, and we don’t know if he is still in there.

Oh well..It is what it is..

 

[DuckyDonna]

Just curious, where are you?

 

[TheMallardDuck]

Just curious, where are you?

England

 

[DuckyDonna]

England

I have nothing to add but other members might have ideas since we know your location now. I hope someone can help you.

 

[TheMallardDuck]

I don’t want to do any risks to try and get him out. I love him with all my heart and this isn’t me saying that I don’t care for him enough. But I’m sure that somehow he will live. He is protected in that pond and the area must have loads of bugs he loves as no one can get in. If one day he flies somewhere and sees the female ducks, hopefully he returns. If not, he has grown up and now a man of his own. I miss him greatly but I don’t want to drag him back home. He seems to be doing great.