Terribly gross duck story
Oct. 28th, 2009 03:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trystinnI'm LJ cutting this for folks who squirm easily, for those who love "Nature, red in tooth and claw" by all means, continue reading.
"Yesterday I tipped over the duck watering bins and found something - all that was left was bones and a very thin, gray fragile 'skin'. I couldn't even tell you what it was, bird or rodent was my guess - the little skeletal 'feet' were about all I could identify. After shuddering a bit, I got a plastic bag to pick it up and threw it away, muttering about how this crap always happens when there's no men hanging about. I just chalked it up to our dear little predator, Libby, perhaps dropping a corpse in their bin and walking away. She does love to harass the critters.
Turns out, something else may have happened. I was reading Backyardchickens today and found a post about a duck mom going into the pen and finding her Muscovy eating a bird. From the responses, it seems that this happens fairly often - ducks killing and eating mice, rats, birds (especially pigeons) and using the water to 'soften them up'. *gulp*"
I know they're omnivores (likely the descendants of dinosaurs and all that), but yikes - Libby has competition!
"Yesterday I tipped over the duck watering bins and found something - all that was left was bones and a very thin, gray fragile 'skin'. I couldn't even tell you what it was, bird or rodent was my guess - the little skeletal 'feet' were about all I could identify. After shuddering a bit, I got a plastic bag to pick it up and threw it away, muttering about how this crap always happens when there's no men hanging about. I just chalked it up to our dear little predator, Libby, perhaps dropping a corpse in their bin and walking away. She does love to harass the critters.
Turns out, something else may have happened. I was reading Backyardchickens today and found a post about a duck mom going into the pen and finding her Muscovy eating a bird. From the responses, it seems that this happens fairly often - ducks killing and eating mice, rats, birds (especially pigeons) and using the water to 'soften them up'. *gulp*"
I know they're omnivores (likely the descendants of dinosaurs and all that), but yikes - Libby has competition!
