Giant migoi
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- Jan 7, 2021
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Hi everyone- just signed up as a new member, Happy New Year to you all! What a fantastic site and collection of forums and articles...
we‘re based in the UK (near the city of Bristol) and have kept chooks for 10 years now - recently started to keep Call Ducks too over the last year...And love them all equally!
I do have a question - we sadly had a recent fox attack just this weekend (Saturday) and lost one of our three ducks. The other two ducks (our breeding pair) escaped uninjured, but all three were within a few feet of each other at the time of the attack. the female duck has not stopped quacking since - quite literally nonstop from 0630 to 1900, every day since. Is this trauma or shock??
she is a call duck so loud and proud, but her behaviour is really not normal (for her at least)... I can’t see any physical injury, and she has also start displaying brooding/mating style behaviour (pancake flat back, arched neck etc, but both on water and land) But not like anything we have seen before... has anyone experienced this before? I don’t know if this behaviour is coincidence with the fox attack timing or a result of stress/trauma...
any advice welcomed - we’re just not sure what to do...
thanks
we‘re based in the UK (near the city of Bristol) and have kept chooks for 10 years now - recently started to keep Call Ducks too over the last year...And love them all equally!
I do have a question - we sadly had a recent fox attack just this weekend (Saturday) and lost one of our three ducks. The other two ducks (our breeding pair) escaped uninjured, but all three were within a few feet of each other at the time of the attack. the female duck has not stopped quacking since - quite literally nonstop from 0630 to 1900, every day since. Is this trauma or shock??
she is a call duck so loud and proud, but her behaviour is really not normal (for her at least)... I can’t see any physical injury, and she has also start displaying brooding/mating style behaviour (pancake flat back, arched neck etc, but both on water and land) But not like anything we have seen before... has anyone experienced this before? I don’t know if this behaviour is coincidence with the fox attack timing or a result of stress/trauma...
any advice welcomed - we’re just not sure what to do...
thanks
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