Got something crazy to share.
One of our adult ducks gave me a scare around midnight last night. For those who don't know, our ducks refuse to sleep inside the coop. The yard they sleep in is completely secure but I still worry whenever I go to bed.
Anyways I had let the dogs out one last time before I went to sleep and they were acting strange which they've done before whenever a single raccoon shows up. I took my dad's flashlight and went out to see what was going on. I checked the coop first because I wanted to count everyone. The hens and the ducklings were accounted for so I went to check on Mouse & her chicks in their brooder coop and they were accounted for. I was checking the ducks and noticed that Duchess wasn't accounted for. I started panicking trying to think what could have gotten in since we use hardware cloth with netting covering the hardware cloth near the top.
There's a tarp that's covering the coop and I'm sure you can guess where she was.
I noticed that there was bulge in the tarp near the entrance of the coop so I decided to lift up the tarp and out ran Duchess.
By the time I saw the tarp, I was full on crying. As soon as I found her, I got angry and forced them into the coop.
For what was freaking out the dogs... it was just White Socks, our outside cat who was hunting a mouse in the garden.
