Help! Ducks attacked by mink!

[casportpony]

Thanks, I'll try for that next feed (due in an hour)

It's probably okay to thicken up her gruel too.

 

[Lukemjm]

It's probably okay to thicken up her gruel too.

Ok, so like 1 part mix to 2 parts water?

 

[Lukemjm]

The ducks were able to eat a small amount of their regular food pellets floating in water. They each had around 5 pellets. It's progress!

 

[casportpony]

Ok, so like 1 part mix to 2 parts water?

Yeah, try that.

 

[casportpony]

The ducks were able to eat a small amount of their regular food pellets floating in water. They each had around 5 pellets. It's progress!

That is progress!

How does Carmella's poop look?

 

[biophiliac]

The ducks were able to eat a small amount of their regular food pellets floating in water. They each had around 5 pellets. It's progress!

 

[Morrigan]

I wonder if I could just set up a wire around the perimeter of the coop.... Also I wonder if my dog would have to learn about it the hard way. Lol

Both of my dogs, my relative's dogs, and all of the "free-ranging" dogs in my area learned the hard way. Most don't need a second lesson. It's an unpleasant surprise, but it won't harm them. I've accidentally touched the wire myself.

 

[Lukemjm]

Carmella took 60mL of the thicker food!

 

[Eggscaping]

About 150 feet from the Willamette river. There's also a nearby slough.

Interesting. We're in the St. Johns part of Portland (north) and have raccoons but are too far from water to get mink. I've seen them on the docks down in Lakeside, though. For awhile there was one who'd come down on the fishing dock and wait until someone caught a small perch or bluegill...then she'd prance forward and kind of bounce around. If you threw her the fish, she'd grab it and go under the dock. She was even in the paper, with a picture of her taking a fish from a fisherman. We found out later that she took them under the dock and stashed them for when she had a litter. Also found out that it got to stinking so much (cached fish in the summer!) they had to send a diver underneath the dock to clean it out. Ew! But she sure was a cute little thing!

 

[casportpony]

Carmella took 60mL of the thicker food!