What's your silliest duck story?!

[blondiebee181]

Silly Daffy!

 

[duckluck]

One of my old white male Calls, appropriately named "Chopper" because he can fly, stop, hover, change direction, and repeat, pulled a fast one on my husband...my husband had gone out to the barn and noticed we were missing a duck out of the stall Chopper was in. He looked all around, outside, checked for signs of predators...nothing. Finally after chasing around for quite some time, he decided to look up...and there was Chopper, perched on a very narrow rafter, sitting perfectly still watching him go nuts looking for him!

No one can tell me Calls can't perch! Luckily, they don't do it often...one of the reasons we don't have chickens is that they perch and then...leave their "calling cards" all over the place.

 

[duckluck]

Mine isn't isn't too funny but made me quite proud. While I live in the country I have a neighbor. Suffice to say, we don't get along. I had chickens and ducks and was surprised to see one day, my neighbor had gotten chickens as well. Well these interloper chickens frequent my yard. No big deal - chickens roam, right? But the two that would come over most were these huge Black Giant roosters. They look like great big dinosaurs compared to my diminutive hens. They were aggressive as all get out and rough on my hens. Chase them off and back they would come. After chasing them off a few times my ducks took over! They would actually intercept the two randy roosters as they approached and chase them back or "cut" them from the flock of my chickens. If the roosters weren't quick enough the ducks would latch on - often one would have a rooster by the back of the head, another by the tail feathers. The rooster couldn't jump and spur as he was being held down fore and aft and pulled in opposing directions! While being held, my two other ducks would go on strafing runs at the luckless rooster - getting in a good pinch or a bill full of black feathers! Highly entertaining viewing! This happened a few times and soon whenever the roosters poked their heads through the hedge the ducks would start their angry chatter, extend their necks and charge toward them. The two roosters no longer come around!!

Love it!

 

[DenverDucky]

I take my duck with me everywhere that will allow it! I took my duck to get pictures taken with Santa at a local garden center. I called first to make sure it was ok and we got there early! Not early enough, we had a 2 1/2 hour wait to see Santa! Soleil was in her stroller, covered and we began our wait. Shortly after we got there and took our "number" a woman tells a child "look! A baby!" I came right up to her and whispered "It's not a baby" and showed the lady and little girl what was inside. Soleil had enough of being in her stroller and popped her head out, drawing everyones attention. The next 2 1/2 hours consisted of Soleil being pet by hundreds of cute kids who came to see Santa and left wanting a duck like Soleil

 

[blondiebee181]

I take my duck with me everywhere that will allow it! I took my duck to get pictures taken with Santa at a local garden center. I called first to make sure it was ok and we got there early! Not early enough, we had a 2 1/2 hour wait to see Santa! Soleil was in her stroller, covered and we began our wait. Shortly after we got there and took our "number" a woman tells a child "look! A baby!" I came right up to her and whispered "It's not a baby" and showed the lady and little girl what was inside. Soleil had enough of being in her stroller and popped her head out, drawing everyones attention. The next 2 1/2 hours consisted of Soleil being pet by hundreds of cute kids who came to see Santa and left wanting a duck like Soleil

Aw! How precious! Yeah my girls came to the feed store with me and everyone loved the sweet little duckies!

 

[duckins]

I have 4 crested babes 8 wks old now they have been with flock night and day for 3 days now separate pens I let them out with my 7 others each morning. Miss Hissbee who reminds me of scarlet on gone with the wind gets so busy exploring she forgets where she's at spots my 3 white pekin drakes (they can be very hateful) and runs as hard as she can after them thinking she's with her 3 other crest mates meantime all the hens are watching her like shes nuts when the drakes get where their going about 50 feet away they all stop and stare at her at this point she realizes she's not with other hens and has a complete anxiety attack spins round and round in circles screaming as loud as she can this goes on till I gently pick her up everyone's still staring at her when I put her down with her ladies she lets this snorting noise out and all hens make loud noise that sounds like there dying laughing. Got to get this on tape today she's does it everyday.

 

[stinkieducks14]

I have 5 , five week old ducks and one of them a little black one likes snuggling up to me and this afternoon I was laying on my hammock and decide to give it a lift up and because I was laying down it came right up under my chin and sat there for a bit before moving to my shoulder

 

[duckins]

That's so sweet!

 

[blondiebee181]

Aw! Such great stories! Poor Miss Hissbee!

 

[Diamond88]

My duck got a bacterial infection when she was younger, so she needed a few trips to the vet. One particular day she was not in the mood to tolerate being stuck in her little travel cage in a strange place, so she screeched and screeched at the top of her lungs for the entire time we sat in the waiting room. Those of you with call ducks know what I mean. Of course, when the vet was finally ready to examine her, she got even more agitated. As the poor vet struggled to hold down my fidgety duck, she joked exasperatingly, "You are a little bratty duck, aren't you?!" In response, my duck let out a loud and very angry-sounding, "QUUAAAAAAACKK!!!!!!" She was young, so it was one of her first quacks, and it was so perfectly timed. She wasn't going to let that vet insult her! She gave the vet a piece of her mind.

Please don't think of me as a bad pet owner for this, but I can't help laughing a bit at her recent tumble down the stairs. At the time, when she fell, I was panicked and ran to her with my heart racing to make sure she was okay. I picked her up and cuddled her and kissed her until she relaxed. But in retrospect, knowing she wasn't hurt, I just can't help laugh at the spectacle of it. Seeing a bird roll end-over-end all the way down an entire staircase...there's just something really goofy about it! You never expect to see an animal with wings fall down, and seeing one roll all the way down the stairs...I don't know, but it's just too silly!