Support Group for Abused Duck Keepers

[Ilovemychicks08]

Sorry to hear about all the hawk problems everyone is having. We get 1 or 2 a year but they dont stay in town long.

 

[New duck mommy 2021]

Sorry to hear about all the hawk problems everyone is having. We get 1 or 2 a year but they dont stay in town long.

We have had them every spring ti fall but none have ever come lower then the trees
But each year they come back in hey have babies as we see moms taking young out circling around teaching them to hunt
Now there are so many that the rabbits and mice that usually keep them happy are not enough to supply this many hawks
A friend a few km away lost all 4 ducks
Not s trace just gone
I’m thinking the hawks got them on her

 

[Sequestered Ridge Ranch]

A hawk will take down a goose too about the only thing one can do is sound an alarm. Look up on youtube if you don't believe me. There use to be a video of a falcon taking down an adult Canada goose.

They got 5 geese to contend with and these are African Brown geese, they aren't to be messed with and derive from the Chinese geese.
https://blog.mcmurrayhatchery.com/2...breeds-on-your-homestead-protect-your-flocks/
Planning on adding a LGD as added layer of security soon as I can find one closer than 500 miles and less than $800 that the ones nearby are asking for.

 

[Sequestered Ridge Ranch]

 

[The crazy Poultry hoarder]

A fox or something got in our yard we started with 7 pekins and now we have 2

 

[Sequestered Ridge Ranch]

A fox or something got in our yard we started with 7 pekins and now we have 2

I could understand missing one after a fox got in the yard for the day maybe 2, but 5. Sounds like a pack of something.

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

A fox or something got in our yard we started with 7 pekins and now we have 2

Im very sorry about this.

Do you think coyotes could have come in?

 

[The crazy Poultry hoarder]

I could understand missing one after a fox got in the yard for the day maybe 2, but 5. Sounds like a pack of something.

It took 1 and left a body and a headless rooster and a gutted duckling one day then two days later it took 2 and left a body

 

[Goosebaby]

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
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I’ve had some extra time lately due to my current predicament of being sick with the “bro cold“ version of COVID, and so having this extra time to ponder things I’ve been pondering a few things.

My main point of focus, the amazing and fascinating path this particular virus has taken before it got to me “I got it from my dad who got it from my brother, who got it from the other loggers at work, who all got it from their co-worker “the new guy” who got it at a nude party at the river from his bros and then made the decision to overshare and tell everyone at the logging camp which is from where half the county including his wife found out much to her great displeasure.”

Beyond pondering my “community acquired pneumonia“ which is what the local hospital as chosen to label the “bro cold” that’s now ravaging half the county, I’ve been dissecting why it is that ducks choose to projectile launch their fecal matter in alarming ways, because when you can defecate onto the ground nice and neatly and then at other times launch your excrement at a near 90 degree angle as much as 4 feet up a solid surface if not higher, that’s clearly a choice you‘re making to do so.

So I’ve been sitting here, deep diving into the psychology of why ducks doooo the way that they do and I’ve come to some conclusions.

Firstly, I thought that it could be a defense mechanism, because having a soggy duck turd launched at you at traumatizing velocity would certainly be alarming.

However it’s a little known fact that an average duck can karate kick an adult bison to death with a single flip of those webbed toes, make no mistake that a duck is a dangerously lethal animal, so why would they play around with something like splattering duck poo across a wall when they could just vanquish their foe with little effort?

They could, but then I realized the obvious, that ducks are ducks and they really enjoy the f out of the spice of life. Simply destroying your enemy physically is no fun and of no interest to duck kind. They would much rather pulverize their enemy psychologically, because let’s be honest, having a ballistic missile of duck shizzles launch up at you into your eye or worse, your mouth, is demoralizing and traumatizing enough to make you question wether your life is worth continuing a moment further. That is an end game move.

This made me realize that them painting walls, windows, any visible surface they choose with fecal bombs is also a statement, a threat if you will, but what’s more it’s them mocking us, reminding us of this horrific fact of how at any moment they can destroy everything we hold dear.

 

[Canadian Wind]

This made me realize that them painting walls, windows, any visible surface they choose with fecal bombs is also a statement, a threat if you will, but what’s more it’s them mocking us, reminding us of this horrific fact of how at any moment they can destroy everything we hold dear.

Including coming out of the coop from sitting on eggs, casually walking up to the pool of fresh water you just set up, turning around and purposefully shooting a broody-poop right into the pristine water!