pinioned wings! grrrrrr!

[GrannyCarol]

One note, as far as docking a dog's tail, there are times and reasons why it is actually advantageous to the dog, that doesn't bother me so much. I definitely am for the removal of dew claws on some dogs (coated breeds whose dew claws are loosely held often have a lot of trouble when groomed, and some small dogs the dew claws grow back into the pads, if not kept up and cause pain and infection). Tail docking and dew claw removal don't seem to cause the puppy more than a moment's discomfort. Maybe that's the case for pinioning a duck, but really my domestic big ducks don't fly and I'd much rather control the flying in my smaller ducks by clipping flight feathers or overhead fencing. I do see why sometimes it has to be done to keep down feral domestic ducks.

 

[ChickieBooBoo]

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I think you would be quite suprised at how much air some domestic big ducks can get on there own wings throw in a windy area...and you educated people are going to be chasing ducks....
BTW if the SWANS are the white mute breed pinioning is REQUIRED BY LAW. they are a invasive breed (Non Native) that tend to go wild and take over breeding grounds of Native birds. This may be applied to Muscovy ducks in the future, the regulators had proposed the rule but backed off because of protests. Knowing how people dump ducks I fully expect the rule to be extended to them also.

I live on the prairies so we can get some pretty good winds, of the large domestic ducks I've only kept Rouens and Pekins but niether of them have been able to get air.

 

[desertdarlene]

I've seen big, bulky geese actually fly if they get a breeze and are running downhill.

 

[slim1986]

We had those "weeder geese" from murry mcmurry hatchery and they would get about a foot off the ground and fly all over, never very high up but for pretty good distances, and they were HUGE geese. And my big ducks do about the same thing, but regardless, I still do not like pinioned birds, I will never buy a bird requiring that nor will I buy a bird that has been again if I notice before I purchase it. I know that my duck that is pinioned is the only one that I have never seen fly, when the others are she runs after them trying to flap and take off with but can't

 

[Oregon Blues]

She's been done. It's too late to do anything about it now. So give her a good home and love her in spite of it. It's not the duck's fault and perhaps it would have been unfair to withhold your good home just because she was pinioned through no fault of her own.

 

[Miss Lydia]

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X2!

 

[ChickieBooBoo]

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X2!

x3

 

[slim1986]

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I totally get that, what I'm trying to say mainly is that I know I'm just one person, but I will not buy pinioned birds because I don't wanna support that "industry" ya know what I mean? Its like debeaked chickens, I don't like the fact that people do it and I will not order birds and request it be done, but I have 20 hens between my parents and grandparents and my flocks that I got from a guy that are debeaked and he didn't tell me until I went to get them and once I was there I bought them still because he kept them cooped up in the coop, no run, no free range, nothing like that so I brought them home to give them a better life. I love her despite the wing but it ticks me off that people do it, especially to heavier breeds that don't fly like a mallard would but the still do fly