Not really sure where to put this...

[lslauds]

Actually my friend released a full grow female pekin duck about 4 years ago in my public lake and she's doing just fine. Plus, where I live the lake does freeze in the winter, but there is always a place that isn't. Also, the lowest temp. this winter was 27 degrees, and it hardly ever snows.

 

[DuckLady]

The pekin you are seeing is likely not the same one. The one your friend set free is likely dead and all you are seeing is another one dumped cruelly.

Domestic ducks "set free" like you propose have an average lifespan of SIX months. If they are not killed by park visitors and their dogs, they are prime targets for raccoons, coyotes, eagles and the like. They get killed by overmating from the other drakes and ganders who kill off all the females by gang rape. The low males in the pecking order end up being the "females" and end up overmated, too. They have no instinct to forage for their feed and end up dependent on handouts from people. Usually those handouts are bread. Bread has NO nutritional value. The ducks end up starving.
http://www.duckrescuenetwork.org/duck_care.html#never

If you are going to release a duckling, you may as well just euthanize it and bypass the suffering it will be subject to.

Domestics are dependent on their keepers for food and shelter and protection.

In Oregon it is a class three misdemeanor to dump a domestic animal in a public place. And I do everything in my power to see the authorities are alerted to such dumping.

I can't tell you how many ducks I have rescued from our local park suffering from wounds from overmating, suffering from deformed and diseased bones from malnutrition. I get people who bring me a "sweet little duckling" they got for Easter who can't walk. It was fed bread and birdseed. If people can't commit to an animal they have no business having it in the first place. It is heartbreaking, frustrating and maddening.

We had people beat a muscovy drake to death because he was funny looking.

Recently a couple of teenage boys ripped the intestines out of a setting hen, destroyed her eggs and beheaded her. For fun.
http://www.localnewsdaily.com/news/story.php?story_id=120494601464703100

This is what dumped ducks and geese look forward to and if they escape such cruelty, they are lucky.

I would suggest that you contact someone on the Duck Rescue Network website and find a home for that poor animal.

I am on the board of directors for the Duck Rescue Network and I guarantee you we will do everything possible to help you find a home for your duck.


Please don't dump it.

 

[Cetawin]

Terrielacy..that is just horrid. Both those boys need a boot in the arse, to be locked up and long-term therapy.

 

[lslauds]

Nope. It's the same duck. Her name is Hope and she comes when I call her. She is the only giant pekin in our lake. Just accept the fact that domesticated ducks can live in the wild. But they are fed like everyday, literally. I give them duck crumbles as well when Hope and her WILD friends come and visit my house. She has even laid one fertile egg, which she laid not in a nest, and I stumbled upon it and it 's now sitting in my incubator, fertile and into it's second week.

 

[lslauds]

ONCE AGAIN I HAVE GIVEN THE DUCKLING POGO TO A FRIEND WHO IS CURRENTLY RAISING IT FOR ME (I cannot I live in a condo and have 4 cats) SHE WILL THEN RELEASE IT INTO MY PUBLIC LAKE (NOT POND IN A PARK) WHEN IT IS COMPLETELY GROW, PLUMAGE AND ALL. We have a blue swedish duck that has been in public lake for about five years and he was released as well.

 

[ebonykawai]

Gee, I'm glad you listened to the professionals on this site.

 

[sara]

I sense this is a person looking for attention

 

[lslauds]

Actually no, I put that post in caps because people thought I was putting a helpless duckling free, but I'm not. Anyway, I figured out where to get a band. Sorry for sounding attentive/obnoxious. Wasn't trying to, just trying to get a point across.

 

[DuckLady]

Wild waterfowl are "released".

Domestic waterfowl are "dumped".

Just accept the fact that domesticated ducks can live in the wild

They are not meant to live in the wild. Yeah they might survive, but most don't. You can dump a penguin in the desert and it 'might" survive, but it doesn't mean it belongs there.

I never accept fallacy as fact. Not when I have seen the results of dumping first hand. If you would like pics I can find some for you.​

 

[waterfowlrescue]

Me personally i am glad to find someone who knows it all. I am going to go tell my boss right this second that all the rescuing we have been doing is totally unecessary. We were just imagining all those tortured and starving ducks, cmon Terrie, geez you have no clue what your talking about!! Who cares if its illegal or unethical!! Just do it anyway becuase we dont care about ducks, we only care about ourselves. Thats the whole point isnt it making ourselves feel good?