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Haha, us too! ThanksGlad you got that sucker.
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Haha, us too! ThanksGlad you got that sucker.
He's cute!Glad you found a good home for him!I had a possum kill a bird. It dug under a fence before I put the electric wire up around my coops and pens. I put traps out and caught it the next night where it had dug under the fence the night before. If you do catch it, please eliminate it don't relocate it and give someone else a headache. We are rural on a dead end road and people have dropped off their catches in my area. I realize this wasn't a predator but someone dropped off a gosling in my driveway. I didn't have geese and gave it to someone who wanted it. I thought it was a duckling but it was a big duckling.
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This really helped us. We lost a white drake a brown silky ckicken and two other chickens last week. They suffered the same bites and horrible demise, and haven’t slept good for nights now, up several times a night, checking on remaining survivors. One has similar bites as you described, that survived and I’m treating the poor duck. We do und a possum last night and wondered if this is our killer? This article sure helps clarify that this just might be the ugly murderer! Was there only one that did all your damage? With all we lost sees like there must be more.So, I am writing this for informational purposes. We have been doing lots of research on what may have been attacking our ducks. Why? Well, we just lost one of our beautiful saxony drakes and one of our silver Appleyard ducks was injured.
We were shocked that our big boy (RIP Pinestone ) was not only killed but his injuries were a bit perplexing. He had a blood spot on each side of his neck/head area and his rear end had been eaten. I looked into his body cavity and his intestines were missing, but his liver was still there. His breasts were untouched! No feather mess or pieces of flesh or reminents of his intestines. Weird, right?
We then inspected the rest of the flock and found another duck with a bite on her rear end too. The bite was as if something had it's head sideways and took a bite under her tail feathers.
We immediately started to research and located many articles on predator identification. Those articles are precisely what prompted our story being shared with all of you.
We caught our predator when it came back for our beloved boy... Dun dun dun..
It was a opossum!!! What the heck? We were shocked, but thought our traumatic experience may help others identify their predator if they knew that opossums not only attack ducks, but that they can kill one as big as of saxony drake! Hope this helps someone out there!
This just happened to us last night- a sideways bite on the tail of our Indian runner. You said it healed- do u recall how you treated it ?Just wanted to update as it has been sometime since we caught the opossum. He was the culprit as we have not had any issue since his capture. Since he also injured one of our ducks, if it were not him, I would assume the predator would return to finish the job and that did not happen.
For anyone wondering, her wounds healed nicely and she is her healthy self again