I have two wild black ducks that we rescued a few years ago and are too tame to release. The mother is just your standard duck who eats lettuce and seed and snails, but the daughter is plain weird. She hunts down mice, breaks their necks, then throws them in the pond and shakes them until she breaks them apart and eats them! She will attack anything, snakes, lizards, she even killed an unlucky dove caught in the pen once. Has anyone got a precedent for this very strange duck behaviour?
2006-11-21 10:01:18 · 9 answers · asked by kalikapsychosis 2 in Pets ➔ Birds
We take care of 6 Peking ducks and over a dozen chickens of various types. They all like to kill mice. The ducks will grab the mice and snap their necks and eat them (usually whole.) The chickens are worse...they chase and peck and peck and peck the mice. It's not unheard of. Our avian vet says that it's nothing to worry about.
2006-11-21 13:55:06 · answer #1 · answered by Amy M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not that uncommon. Ducks can be very aggressive. We had one years ago we had to get rid of because it finally started attacking people walking down the street.
2006-11-21 10:06:19 · answer #2 · answered by luckyaz128 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe it is inbred?
That does cause aggressive tendencies in animals...
Some ducks are just that way though. I was chased by a rooster for almost a mile when I was little!
Birds are weird sometimes.
2006-11-21 10:09:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-17 08:40:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is common duck behavior very likely your duck is a drake
2006-11-21 10:49:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
DUCKS GONE BAD!
you have to execute them now.
2006-11-21 10:09:08 · answer #6 · answered by R J 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure sounds like she would survive out there! good luck!
2006-11-21 10:06:22 · answer #7 · answered by jo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
odd vary odd
2006-11-21 11:30:27 · answer #8 · answered by bmebodymod 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm not quite sure that i believe that...unless you've provoked her REALLY badly.
2006-11-21 10:07:45 · answer #9 · answered by ♠ MJ ♠ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋