baby duck with lots of problems

[Julie Birb]

Funny stories about your animals eating human food everyone! We can't even go outside with food because the chickens beg for it, unless it's for them we keep it inside or else they steal it from us. They've jumped  into my lap when I'm eating ice cream out side and while they enjoyed that, I did not.
Thanks everyone for the info for when to introduce over night togetherness for the babies and adults. 

Funny. Silly opportunistic birds.

 

[Julie Birb]

We had a bunch of turkey and ham left once and decided to feed it to the animals I gave most of it to the dogs, cats and bantams but my boyfriends chicken lived in the duck pen because she was huge so I tried to throw her a big piece to tear up next thing I know my roomates huge male muscovy comes tearing across the yard and snatches it from her and proceeds to try to swallow this huge bit of meat that's bigger than his head and I am thinking crap how am I going to explain to Katie that her duck choked to death on a piece of ham...so I hop the fence and Chase him into the coop and almost tackle him to get it away from him. He's not too amused and he stands there glaring at me and hissing until I tear it up and throw a much more manageable size bit to him and then I toss the much smaller pieces to the other ducks and chickens in the pen. Every summer I buy a watermelon or two and will sit out with the birds cutting it up and sharing it with them .

That is hilarious, not the potential choking part, but the whole scenario the way you wrote it.

 

[Julie Birb]

My chickens will eat anything. Any leftovers are fine. The ducks watch them eat and then they dive in too. Meat, eggs, homemade bread, cookies, your sandwich if you don't watch it, chicken in any form, cereal hot or cold, and even pizza.

I had a hen who would jump 2 feet in the air for a toasted marshmallow. Lol

Ha!! That's cute. 2 feet is pretty high. Aren't chickens kinda springy?

 

[Julie Birb]

I'll never tell them they are cannibals.  What they don't know won't hurt them.  

I took Jeffrey out in the yard today and the chickens froze in their tracks looking at him.  They didn't peck him I think they were afraid of him.  

Patty

Good that won't. In this case, ignorance is bliss.

I bet your birds have never seen a turtle before. You could tell them he is a distant cousin since he came from an egg. What did the ducks think?

 

[Julie Birb]

Uno has his little boy curl.  I just noticed it today.  It's so cute and he is flaunting it.


Patty

Awe, I love that. What a sweetie. Have Robbie or Josh photo him. Is he still dating Que Sera?

 

[napdognewfie]

Carrying food in the yard was how I found out Henrietta loved marshmallows. Only toasted and not raw. I found out how high she could jump when I tried to hold it up out of her reach. Im 5-1 and she was a big chicken. Lol

I had a little bantam named Blue Feet who went to animal education opportunities for over 10 years. She was the only chicken a lot of people seen alive and not on their plate. We had her at a block party and my best friend was eating a hot dog. I was holding Blue Feet and standing next to her. Just as she took a bite from one end, BF reached over and chomp! She got a huge bite from the other side and was very pleased with herself.

Information: Don't drop cookie crumbs on your feet if you are wearing sandals. Ducks will try to dabble between your toes for every last crumb. Lol

 

[Halloweengirl13]

That is hilarious, not the potential choking part, but the whole scenario the way you wrote it.

This is Rawful the butt-head himself the other birds are Valkyrie my mallard and my as yet unnamed male muscovy duckling

 

[Halloweengirl13]

This is so cute.  Angry Bird is a chicken and did she sit on the eggs and hatch the ducks?  Your ducks and chickens get along so well.  Mine just ignore each other.  Thanks for sharing this precious pic with us.  

Patty

She only hatched 3 of them, one hatched a week before hers and the others a day or two after, I was trying to get the ducklings out of the house cause they were getting stinky so I put them with her she was still in the accepting phase between broodines and mama hen and she was thrilled to bits to have more.

My other Japanese hen Ishtar is sitting on and successfully covering 7 duck eggs .

I have 30 something duck eggs in the incubator so if any more hens go broody they are getting upgraded to duck. I have two bantam cochins and a Golden Sebright that will go broody a few times a year. And a young Silkie. My blue cochin Nimue hatched some ducks for me last year.

 

[Julie Birb]

Carrying food in the yard was how I found out Henrietta loved marshmallows. Only toasted and not raw. I found out how high she could jump when I tried to hold it up out of her reach. Im 5-1 and she was a big chicken. Lol

I had a little bantam named Blue Feet who went to animal education opportunities for over 10 years. She was the only chicken a lot of people seen alive and not on their plate. We had her at a block party and my best friend was eating a hot dog. I was holding Blue Feet and standing next to her. Just as she took a bite from one end, BF reached over and chomp! She got a huge bite from the other side and was very pleased with herself.

Information: Don't drop cookie crumbs on your feet if you are wearing sandals. Ducks will try to dabble between your toes for every last crumb. Lol

What a super sweet story. I love Blue Feet. So funny how she helped herself. Silly dabbling toe ducks. I had no idea they would do that.

 

[Julie Birb]

This is Rawful the butt-head himself the other birds are Valkyrie my mallard and my as yet unnamed male muscovy duckling

The names. Love them. Rawful is crazy. Is he nice to Valkyrie? She is cute. I am sure you will come up with a fun name for Scovy boy. Let us know.