Support Group for Abused Duck Keepers

[Maddcatter]

Is it ok if i stick around even though i dont have ducks right now?

You won't even be the only one.

 

[ruthhope]

Is it ok if i stick around even though i dont have ducks right now?

You should stick around: you were mightily abused. I'm sad for you and your ducks

 

[BelovedBirds]

Is it ok if i stick around even though i dont have ducks right now?

Of course!! You're always welcome here

 

[New duck mommy 2021]

Free babysitters for the youngest ones
The husky
Grandma and grandpa and teens

 

[Goosebaby]

Is it ok if i stick around even though i dont have ducks right now?

Once a flock member forever a flock member.

 

[Sequestered Ridge Ranch]

Look at the schit I have to deal with, LITERALLY!!! Swear they play target practice in the night placing bets. Seems as if they bend over, aim and shoot, how else they get that high.
I got to keep a spray bottle of glass cleaner just for this schit.
Notice the perfect screw pattern in the metal siding, I’m good like that

 

[Goosebaby]

I have noticed a few unique behavioral traits among certain breeds I’ve had over the years. I haven’t had a lot of ducks so this might not be true of the entire breed but it is for the ones I’ve had.

Pekins: one minute they absolutely adore you. Go inside and come back out later and they won’t know who the F you are.

Look at the schit I have to deal with, LITERALLY!!! Swear they play target practice in the night placing bets. Seems as if they bend over, aim and shoot, how else they get that high.
I got to keep a spray bottle of glass cleaner just for this schit.View attachment 3601689View attachment 3601690

Ah yes, the projectile shitzels.

 

[Goosebaby]

Some common things I’ve noticed with certain breeds. Let me know if yours are the same or differ in whatever ways everyone.

Pekins: Absolutely adore you one minute. Go inside and come back out 20 minutes later and they don’t know who the F you are. Also there’s the harvest time paranoia where they inexplicably fear all humans for 4 months but snap out of it once it’s spring.

Welsh Harlequins: They have to be put to bed at the exact time every
night just before sunset. Not a minute before or they’ll run around shrieking bloody murder because they think you’ve selected them for dinner. And not after or its like trying to capture cats while they dance around the meadow wanting to stay out all night with the coons and coyotes like hot young singles wanting to sample the local night life.

Buff: I only have the one but he’s creating ever more intricate plots for my demise daily…

Cayuga: She’s….different. Shes always nice. Always consistent. She doesn’t have bipolar meltdowns like the others. She’s predictable, always following me around, or gazing at me from the shrubberies, always with that pleasant smile...I suspect something insidious is at work here.

Buff x Cayuga: She’s still in baby mode.

 

[Sequestered Ridge Ranch]

Some common things I’ve noticed with certain breeds. Let me know if yours are the same or differ in whatever ways everyone.

Pekins: Absolutely adore you one minute. Go inside and come back out 20 minutes later and they don’t know who the F you are. Also there’s the harvest time paranoia where they inexplicably fear all humans for 4 months but snap out of it once it’s spring.

Welsh Harlequins: They have to be put to bed at the exact time every
night just before sunset. Not a minute before or they’ll run around shrieking bloody murder because they think you’ve selected them for dinner. And not after or its like trying to capture cats while they dance around the meadow wanting to stay out all night with the coons and coyotes like hot young singles wanting to sample the local night life.

Buff: I only have the one but he’s creating ever more intricate plots for my demise daily…

Cayuga: She’s….different. Shes always nice. Always consistent. She doesn’t have bipolar meltdowns like the others. She’s predictable, always following me around, or gazing at me from the shrubberies, always with that pleasant smile...I suspect something insidious is at work here.

Buff x Cayuga: She’s still in baby mode.

I got smart early and got some smart birds called geese, namely African brown geese. They see danger they shove the ducks in the Waddle Inn, time for bed they are shoving the ducks in, try and mess with the ducks you are going to have to go through them. Their rules, their place.

 

[Maddcatter]

Huh... I've been thinking about getting some cayuga ducks... Because they're pretty.
... However, I was unaware that ducks come in non-bipolar, and now I REALLY want to get some cayugas.

One of my kakhi campbells seems to be going broody. She's been sitting progressively later in the day in one of the nesting boxes. We'll see how that goes. Given that my ducks only think I'm not murdering them when I'm giving them treat... This might be interesting.

Ended up killing a bull snake today. Pretty sure it's the same snake from a while ago. It just slithered right into the chicken run tonight, so it's now sleeping with the fishes... Er... Flies...

My ducks where getting some night time treats when the snake made an appearance. I think I scared the ducks by axing the snake. Maybe they thought they're next? Idk.