HELP!

[Brinly]

I need help my ducks have been dying from i don't know what i had 4 ducks, 2 rouen ducks a male and female, 1 young male wood duck and 1 young male welsh duck. About a month ago my male rouen duck just disappeared and my female duck her neck was ripped up and she was dead and my chickens wouldn't do that and I don't think it was a fox or weasel. Yesterday i found my welsh duck dead in its pond. If anyone can help me out that would be great so this doesn't happen to my wood duck.

 

[Chickiemom25]

try a trail cam to find the predator. Maybe a racoon?

 

[micstrachan]

So sorry. Sounds like a predator. Hard to tell what kind without more information. What predators have access to your birds?

 

[Brinly]

try a trail cam to find the predator. Maybe a racoon?

Yeah i could do that also i checked my fence and there are no holes, nothing.

 

[Brinly]

So sorry. Sounds like a predator. Hard to tell what kind without more information. What predators have access to your birds?

I have dogs and cats but my chickens aren't free range they stay in there outdoor coop this time of year

 

[Chickiemom25]

Yeah i could do that also i checked my fence and there are no holes, nothing.

you haven't really described your set up.. Are the ducks in a run with a roof and dig-proof floor? I have found one of my guineas attacked on top the chicken run at night.. I assume by a racoon or opossum as the throat was ripped out. They can scale fencing. Or maybe it was an aerial attack?

 

[Slike]

Based off what you described this is absolutely a predator problem. Raccoons and possums are both very adept at climbing, so depending on your set up they can just be climbing in over the top of the fencing if its like that. Raccoons are horrible, sick-minded things that enjoy killing and harming other animals just to sit there and watch, not always for the legitimate purpose of "needs to eat". It sounds like a raccoon to me; with possums they'll typically kill ALL of the birds that are together regardless of if they eat any off more than one of them.

 

[Slike]

Important question I forgot earlier since I'm just waking:

-What approximate area of the day did the various killings fall into? Night, Dawn/Dusk, Daytime?

I want to implore you to crate the remaining wood duck drake and keep him inside and safe until you figure out and deal with the problem. Removing the ability of the predator to get at him in the first place is the safest and surest thing right now until the predator(s?) is dead for certain.