The gross truth about ducks...

[La Mike]

Can,t resist this is just a hilarious post
My ducks are so dumb they have a 1/2 acre pond to play in they won,t touch
but they sure will play in the water bowl of a 1/2 gallon

 

[nettie]

my ducks have tons of fun ripping apart feeder fish, but were scared of worms!

 

[priss]

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LOOOOOOOOOOOL SOOO TRRUUUUUEEEE
XXX

 

[priss]

Okay now I love my ducks, goodness knows how much I love them. I'm outside with them everyday in my thermals in my waterproofs. I don't mind when they use me like a climbing frame and stick their noses into my pockets and drag out all the contents. I don't even mind when Mr. Snoogles decides he wants to be a parrot and sits on my shoulder and then tries to seriously eat my ear, not nibbles but actual chomping. I've been explodo pooped on from a close range, I've been studying outside to have Rory wander over and spit out an endangered newt that he'd been munching on my books. Luckily Doogie came up behind and ate it again. I've had a very important thesis interupted every eight minutes by quacking outside the back door. When their quacking doesn't get a response they learn a new way of quacking that sounds even more like they're being eaten so I gotta leap up and check they ok.
My husband can't sleep after a night shift unless they are silenced with peas and they KNOW when he's been on a nightshift.
All of this I can deal with, buttttt and I still love them, butttttt this morning: beautiful little dead mouse in the waterbowl. My husband is proud as anything, like they little mouse catching heroes but EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. Now the night-night routine is going to be making sure there no little mice in their run. Poor little thing. Evil ducks. I was kinda hopin cos they call ducks they'd be too small for this kind of thing. Now I think when they watchin plane goin overhead, they thinkin DINNER!!

 

[nettie]

when you go to pick your loving duck up and she "leaks" little bits of poo everytime you try to lift her.... just a couple drops here and there... like a defense mechanism to keep me from picking her up...

 

[duckie mama]

when they are waddling past and an egg just slips out like they didn'tknow they had to lay. my crested pekin does this.

 

[Duck_feeder]

They'll muck up their food with water and poop then quack angrily at you for not dumping out their bowl and giving them dry food to eat.

 

[newduckie]

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Wow... I have ducks and I didn't know this.. can't wait to read on. Mine don't let me pet them tho. I have 6 new babies in a brooder on the porch tho and they do tolerate my touch, but don't like it much.

 

[newduckie]

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Love the one abou the ramp to the pool. I tried EVERYTHING to get them to use a ramp. They continually run and try to fling themselves into the side of it. They really are dumb animals... but look at the size of their heads.. not much room in there..

 

[newduckie]

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YEP!!! they are such fun to watch. I am getting more ducks and geese.