狗把正在孵蛋的野鸭子赶跑了（小鸭子孵出来了）

高飞

家里有棉花糖 发表于 2013-8-28 18:47
好有爱心的楼主！估计换了我家，我公婆二话不说就给捡回家腌成咸鸭蛋啦啊。。。

: \: H8 W0 C5 G( m( \1 }你是一逮住机会就骂你公婆啊

purpleapple

高飞 发表于 2013-8-28 21:50
. \' {+ Q( t$ N$ m! n- u% N我还恨邻居呢，鸽子非常脏，羽毛鸟屎非常多

好吧，你家猫咪是给你报仇去了。。。

家里有棉花糖

高飞 发表于 2013-8-28 21:51
4 ^0 m/ O' h; y+ k3 z, }7 y你是一逮住机会就骂你公婆啊

# K8 }8 T- E2 Q1 o8 S$ Q- y& ?事实情况。你好像很关注这种事情哦

高飞

家里有棉花糖 发表于 2013-8-28 22:53
事实情况。你好像很关注这种事情哦

4 u1 w+ Q. U/ z# W: O' M0 U因为俺妈也是这样的。。。

Ant_Worker

Do not let wild ducks hatch ducklings on your property, your curiosity will bring you more trouble and headache in the future. I am saying this based on my own personal experience with wild ducks.

fireblade

Ant_Worker 发表于 2013-8-29 00:49
Do not let wild ducks hatch ducklings on your property, your curiosity will bring you more trouble a ...

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fireblade

高飞 发表于 2013-8-28 21:50
/ ], m' i4 b0 T2 {% P$ T我在国内养的猫没有送给我东西吃的习惯，不过在新西兰我养过一只非常聪明的流浪猫，经常抓老鼠，鸟送给我 ...

  D% ?' H) I9 h我以前养了两条黑背是姊妹，它们很喜欢抓老鼠，抓住了就咬死摆在我家门口，我每次都训斥它们 ，听你一说原来它们是想当礼物送给我 当时怎么就没想到呢?误会它们了，后悔!

Ant_Worker

fireblade 发表于 2013-8-29 12:19
有故事?期待下文。

Yes there is a story to my statement earlier. I`ll have to tell in english, coz it takes too long for me to type chinese. It`s a bad idea to feed wild ducks, as it makes them dependant on humans for food intead of fetching for food themselves. Don`t get me wrong, I don`t hate wild ducks, as a matter of fact I love all animals and birds. I am just trying to save you from all the trouble that`ll be too much for you to handle in the future. I`d say your dog did you a favor that you don`t even know of.
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2 _6 T7 G. S2 y* }There are a lot of wild mallard ducks where I live, they`re in fact over populated in our neighborhood, you often see them wondering up and down the street. Sometimes you could see a dead duck`s body on the street got run over by a fast driving car.

Our drama all started with an occasional encounter with a wild duck mum and her seven little ducklings. We were in the yard, and a duck mum stumbled in with her little ducklings, the ducklings were at the cutest age, they must not have been over a couple of weeks old. Out of curiosity we gave them some bread, they seemed to really enjoy it, and we were happy to watch them ( As a matter of fact, as I learned later that it`s actually bad to feed ducks bread, you can google it if you`re keen to find out why). They came around a few more times, and of course we fed them every single time, but they did not make it a regular visit.

(To be continued)

Ant_Worker

It was a couple months later, the duck mum returned with her partner. Obviously the drake (male duck) had stayed away all that time, as drakes don`t take part in bringing up the ducklings. Since we keep pet chickens and our own ducks on our property, there is always abundant food around. The duck was smart enough to pick a good place for her family to settle in. They would come to our yard early in the morning, get fed and sleep under the tree for most of the day, only flied away in the evening to wherever their habitat is. It was like a job for them, and the free food was just too tempting for them. It went on for some time, and I was happy to accommodate the two extra months.

But as time went by, more ducks came, somehow the message got around between the wild ducks that  there`s free food somewhere in the neighborhood. At first, it was another pair, and then another. Until suddenly one day I looked out of the window to the backyard, and I saw like 20 ducks there. I was absolutely shocked and almost panicked.

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高飞

Ant_Worker 发表于 2013-8-29 15:48
It was a couple months later, the duck mum returned with her partner. Obviously the drake (male duck ...

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Ant_Worker

It was really like a neighborhood duck meeting, there even came a semi-white wild duck, he looked massive, I had never seen wild ducks in that colour before. I had to make the new comers go away, they were just getting too many. I only let the original pair stay. And if you ask me how I could tell them apart, all ducks look the same. Well, if you are a keen observer like me, you would notice the small differences in their appearance.
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' g1 B$ S* }( ~' h( qHere are some of the dramas during that period with the duck parents (yes I call them parents, because I would tell about their new ducklings later, well, of course that`s if you still want to hear).
      First of all, of course, it`s the food. Wild ducks eat a lot more, as they need more food to store up the energy for fly. Normally a bag of 10KG poulty pellets would last for more than a month for my chickens and ducks (of course I still feed my pets with other goodies), but it finished within one week with the wild ducks. A bag of pellets is not expensive, but I still can`t afford to feed all the wild ducks around.
1 Z- z' s8 ~7 _2 ^9 {4 P# C8 ^: j* y      Second of all, ducks are territorial and they fight (unlike my own muscovy ducks, they are pretty mellow). When a new pair come in, the drakes start to fight, one would pin the other one down with his beak. Or sometimes if the drake is not strong enough to depend his partner, the other drake would get on top of the duck and stump on her. In the end, the strongest drake wins, and the others fly away. I don`t know how many fights I had to break up. The fight happens pretty quickly when it`s feeding time. At other times, they don`t seem to mind that much.  
      And then too many ducks caused too much noise, especially when they were fighting, female ducks make a lot louder noise than the drakes. Ducks quack, drakes make quieter whistle. But the constant whistle could be annoying too. I was too afraid our neighbors would complain.
  T& g/ e* ^) P) C3 O      One other thing is with the drinking water, ducks drink a lot of water and they eat messy, I had to change water bowls a few times a day just to keep the drinking water clean so my chickens would have fresh water to drink whenever they felt like it. Keeping dinking water clean is extremely important for keeping healthy poulty. As I read in a book, if you don`t want to drink that water, don`t expect your chickens to.
6 P3 a! f7 {% y6 M' G       And last, but not the least, as all creatures, ducks poop after eating. Duck poo is not like chicken poo, dry and easy to pick up. Duck poo is watery, they poop all over the yard and I couldn`t even clean it up.

Ant_Worker

Despite all that drama, I still enjoyed the stay of the pair of ducks. Although the wild ducks liked to flight, they did not mess around with my pet ducks, as they are bigger and much more solid, and my ducks have got the best personality, and partly because they move slow, they would tolerate you untill you really piss them off. My chickens, of course, are not afraid of the ducks. They would give the wild ducks a hard peck on their back if they try to steal their food while they`re eating. I had to put food in separate bowls, feeders, so everyone could eat in peace.

The pair of wild ducks were quiet most of the time, all they did was sleeping. And I liked to watch how the drake took care of his girl. He would always wait and guard the food bowl from others until she finishes eating, he would stretch his neck out long to make others go away if someone else is aproaching the food. For a human, the stretch of neck act is pretty much defendless, but I guess it`s scary enough for another bird. He would never eat first. Even if there`s not enough food left, he would make sure she is full first. Drakes are such gentlemen when it comes to depending their partners.

Sometimes the duck would walk behind the drake and make quick constant noise with her neck pointing down the ground every step of the way, as if she`s telling him what to do. Sometimes as I was watching them, I would add my own voice to the duck`s quack and make it sound like a real conversation, it was kinda funny. I`m not mad, it`s just another quirky way of entertaining myself.
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/ i5 P1 O" B% I) M# GWhen the evening comes and time for them to fly away, they would stand on the high ground with neck up sensing the direction of wind. And the female duck is always the first one to take off, drake would follow immediately after. As I learned from my experience of watching ducks, the females are obviously the ones calling the shot among the duck world.
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# @7 T- G% x: s) _0 f7 b- qAnd if you don`t know how to tell a male duck apart from a female duck, here is a tip (apart from the different sound they make and their looks), the males have curly tail feathers.
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(Will be continued)

FISHFARNORTH

楼主你的母鸭回来孵蛋了没？

daniellerose20

这里的鸭子是这样约，你如果常常喂牠们，以后小鸭孵出来还会帶回来给你看和要吃的。

+ u" T2 B0 V- L2 x/ ]+ w: p- ^以前住的那房子就孵出过好几代鸭，可怕的是小鸭子们长大了会拉好多屎

) S/ M9 K& W' o( h那时老妈在就说乘鸭子肥大了还未会飞给抓起吃！我老公就天天去赶鸭，我就天天帶牠们到小河去教牠们去新地方住。

daniellerose20

好几天，一路抛面包在路上，八、九只肥鸭跟着走到小河去，好好笑！
后来就都不喂了，鸭屎太可怕！

fireblade

FISHFARNORTH 发表于 2013-8-29 20:02
楼主你的母鸭回来孵蛋了没？

鸭子回来了 昨天上午是一只，下午是两只 我怕惊动它们 没去窝里看，我觉得应该还会再孵吧，我也不确定，今天我想去看一下

fireblade

Ant_Worker 发表于 2013-8-29 16:56
Despite all that drama, I still enjoyed the stay of the pair of ducks. Although the wild ducks liked ...

谢谢分享啊

fireblade

daniellerose20 发表于 2013-8-29 23:43
好几天，一路抛面包在路上，八、九只肥鸭跟着走到小河去，好好笑！
后来就都不喂了，鸭屎太可怕！

* N1 Z. Q% x" B( s4 l$ C鸭屎的确很讨厌  就怕拉到屋顶上

小七七

Ant_Worker 发表于 2013-8-29 16:56
Despite all that drama, I still enjoyed the stay of the pair of ducks. Although the wild ducks liked ...

2 P  o5 w3 s% }I love your story! You are so passionate about animals! I wish to read more!

BABYCAT

Ant_Worker

小七七 发表于 2013-8-30 11:16
% t. ^1 Y* d# O" O# M+ f$ X+ RI love your story! You are so passionate about animals! I wish to read more!

Thank you for reading my story. I will write a bit more for you.

for_undead

咸鸭蛋得了           费那些劲干啥

AMY_JIN

我家拉布拉多也很会抓这些东西、它经常抓鸟叼回来、把鸟折磨的残了、我们都感觉内疚死了！教育也不听！现在鸟都不敢来我家院子了！

AMY_JIN

purpleapple 发表于 2013-8-28 17:38
5 E+ m, v- J; h* b3 Q拉布拉多。。。。

我家拉布拉多也是超级捕鸟杀手、死狗力气大的不得了、每次玩什么都把我累个半死！你家狗多大？我家一岁半是boy！

AMY_JIN

purpleapple 发表于 2013-8-28 17:38
6 x$ ^  p6 E5 m: P6 H$ L8 T* L( J拉布拉多。。。。

' f& x1 K  f7 Z9 S( f3 Y我家拉布拉多也是超级捕鸟杀手、死狗力气大的不得了、每次玩什么都把我累个半死！你家狗多大？我家一岁半是boy！

purpleapple

AMY_JIN 发表于 2013-9-1 22:40
我家拉布拉多也是超级捕鸟杀手、死狗力气大的不得了、每次玩什么都把我累个半死！你家狗多大？我家一岁半 ...

我家一岁多点的姑娘

vivian0605

我家也有这情况，两只鸭子来了3个多月，快4个月了，前段时间在孵蛋，前几天来了还带着小鸭子，不过就1只，我家狗它不敢随便出门的，所以鸭子没吓跑。

fireblade

vivian0605 发表于 2013-9-2 08:07
# V) s3 D% w4 p9 `2 G; K0 p# t我家也有这情况，两只鸭子来了3个多月，快4个月了，前段时间在孵蛋，前几天来了还带着小鸭子，不过就1只，我 ...

9 i& |( D3 _1 }6 S' N9 Q* x我家的狗整天满院子跑，疯惯了，这几天受限制了，很不爽。

vivian0605

fireblade 发表于 2013-9-2 09:15
% y5 }, i9 W6 g- S我家的狗整天满院子跑，疯惯了，这几天受限制了，很不爽。

lz住哪里啊？不会是同一对鸭子吧

hornet

vivian0605 发表于 2013-9-2 10:45
9 M9 I7 p* D8 L( h+ Elz住哪里啊？不会是同一对鸭子吧

! b& c2 c, h7 o5 k4 \7 y5 H/ w我住在北岸