Duck ate a rat?!?!

[Deester]

Cool. My duck regularly eat toads. They fight over them.

Denise

 

[suzy4027]

Oh. My. Gosh!!! My 2 stupid WH's can't even catch fireflies!! Lol. They're pretty aggressive with any other animal, so who knows? Maybe they'd step up if a rat shows its face! That's pretty amazing. Awesome job, little lady!

 

[Ytka]

Catching rats has become normal for her. But just now she caught a sparrow! I was glad that it got away quickly. It's funny because this duck is our one with a sweet personality. She acts like a little dog with us, and we have to protect her from the other ducks. And apparently she's a bird of prey?!?

 

[aa3655]

That's incredible. I NEED one of those!

 

[Muscovynmore]

My favorite is when the ducklings catch mice. They always look so pleased with themselves . . . and somehow they can always gulp those things down.

Mother Muscovies will often kill decent-sized snakes. They probably just eat the smaller ones.

 

[kukupecpec]

How amazing that you caught it on camera!

ChaCha eats mice. I was really worried the first time she ate one, but when she didn't die I figured she was supposed to. She's usually REALLY good about not eating things she's not supposed to (except my woven hay-like baskets.... apparently it's ok to eat those because they look like grass LOL) so glad to know this is totally ok!

 

[Amykins]

ChaCha eats mice?! Daaaaaaang. I don't think Wobbles could catch one of those lil' suckers, let alone eat one. Someday I'd love to see a side by side comparison of my calls next to your jumbo crested Peke, I think the juxtaposition would be hilarious!

 

[kukupecpec]

ChaCha eats mice?! Daaaaaaang. I don't think Wobbles could catch one of those lil' suckers, let alone eat one. Someday I'd love to see a side by side comparison of my calls next to your jumbo crested Peke, I think the juxtaposition would be hilarious!

ChaCha isn't even full size! She's smaller than most of the Pekins i name diapers for anyway. It's funny! I think she must have had growth problems, but wet love hey weirdness anyway lol
She does struggle to catch them! But when she does, it's gross lol

 

[Tevyes Dad]

ChaCha isn't even full size! She's smaller than most of the Pekins i name diapers for anyway. It's funny! I think she must have had growth problems, but wet love hey weirdness anyway lol
She does struggle to catch them! But when she does, it's gross lol

Maybe some light on ChaCha's size... I assume you don't know ChaCha's lineage since you rescued her. ChaCha looks like the same kind of duck as Tevye to me. Tevye was bought from Metzer where they sold him as a "White Crested" (I am guessing that this is because he wouldn't be a purebred Pekin.) Metzer claims they don't have the problems typical to crested ducks. I don't know how much this is true or to what extent the problem has been relieved, but I would assume if it is true, they bred together whatever source ducks they could to get as good and consistent outcome as possible. To me Tevye looks like a crested version of a German Pekin which is similar to an American Pekin but stands more upright like a runner. According to Metzer their Pekins weigh 7-13.5 lbs (Snow was 11 lbs so spot on) And their Jumbo Pekins weigh 9 - 13.5 lbs. Their White Crested only weighs 6 - 7.25 lbs. (I am not sure what Tevye's current weight is - I am getting a baby scale in the next few days - but I would be very surprised if he was much more than 6 lbs and he's a drake - He is long and VERY fluffy, but not real heavy).

 

[Amykins]

HAAAA Gentila, I love your new avatar photo! Silly Entie.

I honestly didn't know Cha2 was so small. Even so, when you have call ducks "small" takes on a whoooole new meaning. I wan into a Pekin coming out of the vet's a while back and he was huge to me! Before then mallards and Pekes were just...duck-sized. Now they're gargantuan by comparison!