Argh! This kills me, esp with the 'letting loose' of ducks randomly-I rejoiced a lot when I saw about 3 pairs of pure wild Mallards returning to my area, but of course a neighbor said he hatched ducks last year and just let them go when they were old enough at a farmers pond!!!
And of TSC? Last year, horror of horrors, I went there and saw the ducklings out of water (or so it looked, it was full in the container but shavings had completely clogged up drinking space). I told a lady, and she lifted it up and *GASP*
there were two ducklings under the nearly full waterer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One was already dead, a Pekin, but the other was a sopping wet Mallard whose neck couldn't be straightened! I picked him up to see if he would live, then put him down and promptly got trampled. I picked him up and told the lady that he would die if left in there (mind you, I had neverrrrrr had ducks, and knew only a miniscule more than the lady, but this was terrible) So she let me take him home without buying 5 more to go along with him (we had chicks the same size)......It was very traumatic for me...(by the way, I wholeheartedly regret NOT buying 5 more to keep him company, because he does not recognize that he is not a rooster and tries to mate the hens he grew up with, even after I got him a duck-lady friend) Moral of the story? Hold TSC accountable for their treatment of chicks and ducklings!
(oh, and by the way, he is just fine, no crick in the neck, but he would not have been if he had been left in that crowded bin with other thrusting ducklings.)
(oh, and by the way, he is just fine, no crick in the neck, but he would not have been if he had been left in that crowded bin with other thrusting ducklings.)
