Hi, so let me start this off by saying, I have no idea how it happened. My sister has a golden doodle and usually doesn’t listen to me when I say to supervise him. I thought that my duck coop was completely predator proof but her dog got in and killed half of my flock of ducks. He didn’t eat them, just did it for fun. Anyway, I had mother ducks in there with eggs, all duckling that were in there are gone, but the mothers were burying their eggs to hide them from her dog because he typically eats their eggs if given the opportunity, like a gate left open. There were feathers everywhere, eggs strewn out of the coop, and it just looked destroyed. I went out and found all of the eggs I could and candled them, then I placed them in my incubator to see if any hatch. What are the odds I get any ducklings, I felt like them dying to protect their eggs would have been for nothing, so I thought I’d help them finish hatching their babies.
Thanks in advance!
I included a photo of the ducks some have passed due to her dog and others are still alive, they used to free range before my sister got her dog:/
As well as a photo of the last four remaining, this was the next day, they were still very skittish.
Thanks in advance!
I included a photo of the ducks some have passed due to her dog and others are still alive, they used to free range before my sister got her dog:/
As well as a photo of the last four remaining, this was the next day, they were still very skittish.
