Ducks that don't Die Horribly?

[Miss Lydia]

I am so very sorry, Ruth I know how much you love your ducks I am heartbroken for you. We just never know why these things happen, they are so good at hiding their illness until they are just about gone or already when we find them. I don't know what feed to serve but Most likely something else was going on. I doubt you feed junk.

I feed https://www.kalmbachfeeds.com/collections/poultry

Same thing Happened with Opie he was biting my boots and acting like normal and I found him the next morning in the corner of his coop dying. He was going on 14 but sure didn't act old.

 

[ruthhope]

I am so very sorry, Ruth I know how much you love your ducks I am heartbroken for you. We just never know why these things happen, they are so good at hiding their illness until they are just about gone or already when we find them. I don't know what feed to serve but Most likely something else was going on. I doubt you feed junk.

I feed https://www.kalmbachfeeds.com/collections/poultry

Same thing Happened with Opie he was biting my boots and acting like normal and I found him the next morning in the corner of his coop dying. He was going on 14 but sure didn't act old.

I loved that great lump of duckiness, @Miss Lydia! He is the only one that was a member of the family rather than well appreciated livestock in the backyard. Daffy was the only one who wanted a cuddle. All my other ducks have been raised properly at a distance with ducky company, and prefer not to be picked up. I can pick all of them up as they are nosy and come to see me whenever I in the garden [and peer in the sliding door windows given the chance] but they don't like being picked up and make that clear when I have the temerity to do so. They are all normal ducks the way they should be!!! Daffy was different. I had thought he would grow old with me -- living to a ripe old age like yours. Even my husband misses him -- he went out to pay his respects to Daffy on the morning he passed, before my son and I buried him, as husband was going out on an errand.

But @Toad9000 should note, Daffy died naturally in his coop. Not a horrible death. None of mine have died horrible deaths!! My son's ducks were attacked by a husky that got over the fence into his back garden, but all survived and son now has a 6ft high pen to protect his flock should the husky get back into the garden. It did once but was thwarted by the pen. The ducks have adapted well to being restricted to a 10' x 20' pen after their prior life of free ranging. So, I am hopeful none of my son's will die a horrible death!