Duck population crashed last night

[QuackerJackFarms]

And there's no way it could have been a neighbor target practicing?

That was my first thought too.

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

Oh and Welcome to BYC tempest. Where are you in KS?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Sounds fishy to me, do you have any neighbors who have complained about your ducks?

 

[dumb_cluck]

If it wasn't poison (either first hand or second) and it wasn't the feed, then I would guess it is a neighbor who wrung their necks. No marks, no saliva, no rectal bleeding.....makes me think that this is a strong possibility.

Sorry for your loss.

 

[Emmalion]

Ohh thats horrible. I wish I had answers but one of my pekin drakes died suddenly this morning. He was in the pen with the other drake and hen. My only guess at this point is that spring is coming and he was viewed as competition.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Ohh thats horrible. I wish I had answers but one of my pekin drakes died suddenly this morning. He was in the pen with the other drake and hen. My only guess at this point is that spring is coming and he was viewed as competition.

So sorry for your loss.

 

[Emmalion]

Thanks! So far no one else has died. I have been watching them like a hawk just in case it was some crazy viral infection.

 

[slink1211]

I am so sorry.

It is so shocking when they die and there seems to be no reason.

 

[tempestinkansas]

I am in Arkansas City Kansas, I have a teaching farm and garden at the Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum, it is baised on a 1900's Praire Farm and Garden. no one has ever complaind about them. I dont know what happend but I am medicatiing everyone just to be safe. I will be getting more ducks and chicks in march so much halk loss this winter. never really thought about poision guess it is a possibility we do have alot of mice running on the land

 

[m.kitchengirl]

Well, I hope it is limited to the ones you have lost already. What a sad thing.
Sounds like you are in a gorgeous place.