It has been so long since I have been on here but as soon as the events unfolded yesterday I thought I have to post it on BYC!!!!
We have a neighbor with a small pond in his backyard. It is fenced in but he never shuts the gate. He bought some ducks. Big white ducks and some mallard looking ducks. Well one hen (if that is what a female duck is) hatched out 11 chicks. She prances them all over the place. They visit my yard most of the day eating grass and waiting for my garden to get ready. I am sure they will destroy it. But I will worry about that later.
Anyway the owner does not feed the ducks anything. So I had a bag of cob corn left over from deer season and I have been shelling it and feeding them every evening when I get home. So now they wait for me. The secret got out and now the big white ducks and the other female mallard looking ducks come with them. So yesterday I drive up and there is a flock of ducks in my yard waiting on my arrival. They greet me at my truck as I get out. I went inside and headed to the basement where I keep the corn.
I come out the basement door and holler for them. My wife hollers for me to come up there one of them has something on it's neck. I get up there and it has a six pack plastic thing around it's neck. I shell some of the corn and when it eats it chokes because the corn coudl not get past the plastic ring that is around it's neck. It is frantic to get it off but can't. My wife says it is going to die if you don't do something.
So with my zero experience with big white ducks, and not knowing if I am going to be attacked when I grab it, I put a little corn at my feet and when they all come close to eat I try to grab it. It took a few times before I got it. I tucked her under my shoulder until she calmed down. I then broke the plastic ring off her neck. She immediately calmed down. Well my kids are amazed and my inlaws was watching the entire thing. Everyone came up to see the lucky duck. I fed her corn out of my hand for a long time. She got used to being held and loves to eat out of your hand. My wife said you should have marked her so you can tell her from the other white ducks. I said there is no need in that. I put some corn in my hands and here she comes running to eat it. The others shy away from my hand but she has no fear of me. She won't have anything to do with anyone else but she seams to know that I saved her life.
Well, that is my duck story. I have some pictures on a cell phone but have no clue how to post them.
Darin
We have a neighbor with a small pond in his backyard. It is fenced in but he never shuts the gate. He bought some ducks. Big white ducks and some mallard looking ducks. Well one hen (if that is what a female duck is) hatched out 11 chicks. She prances them all over the place. They visit my yard most of the day eating grass and waiting for my garden to get ready. I am sure they will destroy it. But I will worry about that later.
Anyway the owner does not feed the ducks anything. So I had a bag of cob corn left over from deer season and I have been shelling it and feeding them every evening when I get home. So now they wait for me. The secret got out and now the big white ducks and the other female mallard looking ducks come with them. So yesterday I drive up and there is a flock of ducks in my yard waiting on my arrival. They greet me at my truck as I get out. I went inside and headed to the basement where I keep the corn.
I come out the basement door and holler for them. My wife hollers for me to come up there one of them has something on it's neck. I get up there and it has a six pack plastic thing around it's neck. I shell some of the corn and when it eats it chokes because the corn coudl not get past the plastic ring that is around it's neck. It is frantic to get it off but can't. My wife says it is going to die if you don't do something.
So with my zero experience with big white ducks, and not knowing if I am going to be attacked when I grab it, I put a little corn at my feet and when they all come close to eat I try to grab it. It took a few times before I got it. I tucked her under my shoulder until she calmed down. I then broke the plastic ring off her neck. She immediately calmed down. Well my kids are amazed and my inlaws was watching the entire thing. Everyone came up to see the lucky duck. I fed her corn out of my hand for a long time. She got used to being held and loves to eat out of your hand. My wife said you should have marked her so you can tell her from the other white ducks. I said there is no need in that. I put some corn in my hands and here she comes running to eat it. The others shy away from my hand but she has no fear of me. She won't have anything to do with anyone else but she seams to know that I saved her life.
Well, that is my duck story. I have some pictures on a cell phone but have no clue how to post them.
Darin
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