Slushie and Chubby are gone. gone forever

[DrakeMaiden]

Beautiful saying in the card your grandmother gave you. Give her a hug!

I know all too well how it feels to loose a special duck. I can't imagine losing two at once.

I will keep my fingers crossed for your hatch. It is the only thing that will really make you feel much better right now. Let us know when you have ducklings!

 

[sueg6255]

The size of a mink is about the same size as a ferret.

 

[TheDuckCrew]

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The worst thing was it was two different instances during the same day. in the morning i woke up and found slushie. i screamed to my dad and i still remember that moment. my five year old brother was with me and it was his duck. he saw her and just started screaming. it was horrible. then we came home and i saw feathers. i screamed to my dad again and he told me to go inside. i went running to my mom, saying it got chubby too. it was the worst thing i have ever had to deal with. i'm getting better each day, and i think more about the good memories than the horrible scenes burned into my mind when i found them.

 

[Barbary Duck Farms]

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[Debi214]

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A possom wouldn't do that either - they are too lazy so they wouldn't eat a chicken unless it was already dead. So it was probably a coon.

 

[DrakeMaiden]

TheDuckCrew -- I'm glad you are remembering the good times you had with them. Remember, they had a better life with you than most ducks get.

 

[TheDuckCrew]

they were extremely loved. and now their brothers are so spoiled!

btw- i love your signature!

 

[DrakeMaiden]

Thank you.

The guy who originally said it isn't half bad either.

I wouldn't know anything about spoiled ducks.

I once had a favorite duck. She had some health problems and we took her to the vet. It cost a small fortune, but we figured out what was wrong with her (she was anemic and just needed some supplemental iron). Even the vet thought my duck was special. She was both beautiful and very, very sweet. Well, we lost her to a racoon, but like you, and against all odds (refrigerated and washed eggs), I hatched her eggs in a homemade incubator. I got one female and four males (out of 6 eggs). All of them are special to me, but the female was a spot-on look-alike of her mother.

She was also very sweet and had the same mannerisms as her mother had that had made me so fond of her mom.

About two weeks ago now, we lost our dear duck (the daughter of the original favorite duck). She had been sitting on a nest for two weeks and I was so excited to finally get to see her with her own ducklings. She died probably early evening and we didn't find her until the next morning. She was very thin, so we think she just didn't have the constitution to brood at the end of a particularly harsh winter. Her half sister, who she was best duck buddies with, had taken up sitting on her nest. I don't know if any of her eggs will hatch, but I am keeping my fingers crossed.

It is always hard to lose a favorite duck.

At the beginning of this week we had some strange weather -- misty rain and sunshine. Turns out we had a rainbow in our backyard (it's two ends were within our property lines). One end ran smack down to her grave. It was the sort of thing that makes you stop dead in your tracks and wonder . . . .

So your story strikes a cord with me and I am hoping you hatch some wonderful ducklings! These silly critters really do enrich our lives, even though they cannot stay with us long enough.

 

[TheDuckCrew]

what a wonderful story. i hope the eggs hatch, and i'm sorry you lost both of them. i'm not sure if any of mine are going to hatch. we went from 14 to MAYBE 3. there seems to be a bacteria in the air sack.

 

[DrakeMaiden]

Make sure you know what is going on with the eggs. If you aren't sure, don't toss them yet! Hang in there, it sounds like they are really close, and I kind of doubt that you will lose them all!