Support Group for Abused Duck Keepers

[Goosebaby]

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!

That means one thing “FEAR ME.”

 

[skeeeter]

That means one thing “FEAR ME.”

Yall try picking up a muscovy (especially a duck, more especially a broody one) who DOES NOT want to be picked up.. first you get flogged by those wings, if you missed that, you get your arms deeply scratched up and THEN shat all over! Do Not do it! Talk really nice to her... pin her wings to her side stealthily.. hold her there gently(but firmly) til she stops wiggling... wait.. wait she will squirt.. just wait til she does, then pick her up.... you have been warned.

 

[Canadian Wind]

Yall try picking up a muscovy (especially a duck, more especially a broody one) who DOES NOT want to be picked up.. first you get flogged by those wings, if you missed that, you get your arms deeply scratched up and THEN shat all over! Do Not do it! Talk really nice to her... pin her wings to her side stealthily.. hold her there gently(but firmly) til she stops wiggling... wait.. wait she will squirt.. just wait til she does, then pick her up.... you have been warned.

This IS a Muscovy, and believe me, I am well aware of how damaging those wings and claws can be!

And don't forget the serrated bill! One of my drakes was impatient for food and lunged at my hand. Got my thumb pretty bad.

 

[skeeeter]

This IS a Muscovy, and believe me, I am well aware of how damaging those wings and claws can be!

And don't forget the serrated bill! One of my drakes was impatient for food and lunged at my hand. Got my thumb pretty bad.

Ouch! yes! I don't have birds eating out of hand(except pigeons, they don't try to bite you unless you are reaching into their nest), but I do handfeed... and I remember the drakes at Taylor Park grabbing people's pants legs and shaking them to get more treats. You could try tossing the treat at the duck.. chickens can't catch in mid air... ducks can

 

[Sequestered Ridge Ranch]

This is what they are doing

 

[Canadian Wind]

Ouch! yes! I don't have birds eating out of hand(except pigeons, they don't try to bite you unless you are reaching into their nest), but I do handfeed... and I remember the drakes at Taylor Park grabbing people's pants legs and shaking them to get more treats. You could try tossing the treat at the duck.. chickens can't catch in mid air... ducks can

Remember, Muscovy are more closely related to geese than ducks.

 

[New duck mommy 2021]

Oh my stella
She is such a nut
She was chewing on my hoodie string and it flipped up on her head
I was recording so got to screenshot the picture
She plays with them like a cat
I will dangle it and she will chase it

 

[Maddcatter]

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.

I feel like you need this book...

Also, my ducks don't poop on me, for the most part. Maybe it's their breed. Maybe it's that I control the spinach... Idk. But they wait to shat until it won't land on me. I do think they use it as a defense mechanism though.

 

[New duck mommy 2021]

I feel like you need this book...
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Also, my ducks don't poop on me, for the most part. Maybe it's their breed. Maybe it's that I control the spinach... Idk. But they wait to shat until it won't land on me. I do think they use it as a defense mechanism though.

My ducks and goose never poop on me either only as babies
But I hold my 5 week olds daily and they haven’t since the first week
My goose is 4.5 months olds and I hold her for long periods like 1/2 hour or more and never goes on me

 

[BelovedBirds]

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

I'm so sorry