ruthhope
Free Ranging
You are so right, @fatty and friends. I was called at the beginning of May by a guy who had "2 white ducks sitting under his truck" in a light industrial area near my home. I went over and there were two juvenile pekin drakes, very frightened and skittish. Clearly abandoned. I returned at night and caught them. Poor wee boys were all soft feather and bone and had no fight in them once in my net. They were filthy very dehydrated and undernourished. They wouldn't have lasted much longer as there was no water source except the hose of a workshop that hosed down cars before resale and the temps the next day were nearly 100F.
I had them in quarantine in a dogcrate in my Florida room for 4 weeks until they were cleaned up, fattened up and ready for rehoming. No takers for two now beautiful juvenile pekin drakes. They are integrated into my flock of rescued drakes now, but I still need to find them homes as I have no more room for further rescues in my coop as the pekins need to sleep in dogcrates. My muscovy [also rescues] are mean to the white ducks at night excluding them from food and water [if not in their own crates, the white ducks provoke the muscovy by pulling their wing feathers.]
