Dumped Easter Ducks

[FunnyBunnies12]

Mine are getting bunnies end of this week, which I HATE because these babies are taken away from their mom way to soon, I've asked their ages before, 4wks old!! They are still nursing but yet just starting to nibble on pellet. Then Ducks/Chicks next week or two. I'm trying to get all my feed and wood pellets before they come in because I HATE seeing them like that because it's so tempting to "Save them all".

 

[gofasterstripe]

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I hear you on that 1...thats how I ended up with most of my rabbits back home. I had 10 rabbits and 2 guineapigs that I had to rehome before I moved over here, It broke my heart big style and I cried for days over it. BUt I did bring my 2 cats over with me...cost me a small fortune to get them here. My plane ticket was (converted into dollars) $450, 2 cats plane tickets, plus health checks, documents and boxes $2,300, to have my cats with me...PRICELESS!!

 

[FunnyBunnies12]

Hey, they become your fur kids, well either fur, feathered, scaled, whatever. I worry about that decision when my dh contract is over in Afghanistan, he had to sign on for another year but we've been talking about the what if, I just hope where ever we go we can take the ducks, if we can't take all at least my 2 adults that got me started in this, my special needs girl Oreo. She has really imprinted herself on all our hearts of her determination and perserverence as well as providing me beautiful babies. My bunnies, they are all middle age or older, my oldest one is 10+yrs old she is having some issues and I don't think I will have her very long, then there are others I was suppose to have fostered temporarily but got stuck with them. Regardless of the outcome I hope and PRAY my dh and I can have our next house on a pond/lake, that is both of our dream/goal, may have to be a foreclosed home because homes on lakes/ponds are $$$$$. I am in the process of getting sub-permitted for wildlife rehabbing and I thought about water fowl in my license/sub-permit that way I can rehabilitate them on my pond/lake. I've done squirrels and just LOVE them to death, they are so entertaining and comical and believe it or not affectionate when they tame up. But when I was in a wildlife conference for wound management they had different wildlife and water fowl there(Cadavers) and that is when I thought how much I'd love to rehab water fowl plus any future oil spills be able to help out.

So any babies hatched yet or still zipping?

 

[aussiedude248]

I think easter ducks should not be illegal. But I think dumping them should be its not just wrong but its animal cruelty as well. But for example if anyone has ever bought from metzers and investigated there site you read that prices jump on all ducks and geese in the Spring time which I think is a smart idea. But if I owned a Hatchery I would send a packet to the customer before getting there Chicks,ducks, or geese stating that they have to have proof of a safe home atleast have a receipt of any building materails and a picture of the shelter they bought or built and explaning the care for them and the illegal things that you cant do with them, one of them is dumping them on a lake. if they cant fill out the form or cant show proof of a safe shelter then they dont qualify for the order. It might sound wrong for the form but its also wrong to dis-own a living creature!

 

[bock]

It is terrible, and hatcheries play their part in it too. It is how they make money. When I was trying to find a hatchery to get my chicks from, I didn't even consider a few hatcheries because they were selling assorted easter chicks and ducklings at a lower price

. I did not want to support a business that does that. I got my ducklings from Metzer last year, they were awesome and I would not hesitate to order from them again.
When we go to visit family, there is a holding pond by the highway on the outskirts of a city between our house and theirs. When you look down there, you can see probably around 30-40 ducks and geese crowded on the shore. I cannot understand how they even survive, the water is filthy, and there is no source of food. In this case, I do hope somebody feeds them, otherwise they would starve. I really want to go on a rescue mission and save as many as I can.

Two years ago, I rescued two Chinese geese from my grandma's neighbors house. They had moved away and left the geese with no food in a dirty little pond. We caught them both, put them in a dog cage, loaded them in the back of the 4runner, and took them on the 300 mile ride home.