Do we have Golden Layers???

[PATOS]

If they got some Indian runner duck in them you might be in luck. I don't know about other duck-species but for my Indian runners killing mice is a favourite past-time-hobby.
They silently wait where they have seen them coming from/walking by...wait for hours.. and then peck! peck! peck! Right on the head.

do you have pictures?
This makes me hopeful
my ducks are a team and they are strong- I was fantasizing about razor blades taped to their bills or friken laser beams....

 

[YodaBat]

crazy ducks

Why are our ducks so silly.

 

[Loopeend]

do you have pictures?
This makes me hopeful
my ducks are a team and they are strong- I was fantasizing about razor blades taped to their bills or friken laser beams....

No, they do it so quick. You often wonder why they suddenly lying around a certain part of the garden for a long time staring to something. Then a sudden bunch of feathers/dust/quacks happen and voila; dead mouse. They then go in the hole with there beaks in the hope to reach baby-mice. They rarely find them. But they enjoy killing/chasing stuff. They do no need blades/laser beams; they already are velociraptors.
We don't have mice (and moles) anymore now. Except for IN our house.
But boy how ferosious they can be against smaller animals.

 

[YodaBat]

Than you- I do take the credit after god of course- jajaja
I have never studied and observed anything this much! I spend hours and hours with them- I still get up at night and watch them in the duck house as they sleep and shift around...I know each duck and we capture 1 every week or so to touch and examine every duck part-ha ha
I currently am battling mice in and around the pen- no evidence of mice/rats in the duck house itself...mmm
I want to kill those pests....

War has begun!

 

[YodaBat]

first pic is our ducks young
the 2nd pic is of the black headed duck is the papa



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Oh my babies they grow so fast

 

[YodaBat]

War has begun!

We are doing night raids with our dog Denver.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/do-you-trust-me-¿.1299729/

Denver rocks!

 

[YodaBat]

No, they do it so quick. You often wonder why they suddenly lying around a certain part of the garden for a long time staring to something. Then a sudden bunch of feathers/dust/quacks happen and voila; dead mouse. They then go in the hole with there beaks in the hope to reach baby-mice. They rarely find them. But they enjoy killing/chasing stuff. They do no need blades/laser beams; they already are velociraptors.
We don't have mice (and moles) anymore now. Except for IN our house.
But boy how ferosious they can be against smaller animals.

Velociraptors!!!!! jajajajajjajajajajajajjaja I told Patos the same thing. Imagine yourself a cricket and ducks are hunting you.