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	likelyness of duckling survival????
resle Enthusiast Posts: 273 Kudos: 112 Votes: 14 Registered: 09-Oct-2004	yesterday morning a family of ducklings were visiting our pond. later that day they left without 2 of the ducklings. i captured them and asked for advice, everybody said to realese them with another family of the same size. so i took them to a river and relesed them. there were three moms with two familys of ducklings. they swam to them but the moms wouldnt except them and the other ducklings were actually much bigger then the 2. all of them would peck at the 2 but they wouldnt stop it was hard to watch.did they survive????
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:32
Callatya Moderator The girl's got crabs! Posts: 9662 Kudos: 5261 Registered: 16-Sep-2001	They will probably stick close to the other two, and since there were two abandoned ones, they will keep each other warm. Its about 60-40 that we lost them, but all in all not bad odds. are you sure the mother wasn't coming back for them? For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:32
Dave. Banned Posts: 823 Kudos: 265 Votes: 11 Registered: 03-Jun-2002	Of course they're dead. Adding smaller ducklings to an unrelated group of larger ducklings + adult birds is asking for trouble.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:32
Callatya Moderator The girl's got crabs! Posts: 9662 Kudos: 5261 Registered: 16-Sep-2001	Oh dar, i read that wrong, I thought the two caught ones were larger. My bad. For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:32
resle Enthusiast Posts: 273 Kudos: 112 Votes: 14 Registered: 09-Oct-2004	thanks, i really dont feal good about it but atleast it was only 2
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:32
fishyhelper288 Fish Guru Posts: 2161 Kudos: 1951 Votes: 137 Registered: 29-Feb-2004	i would have raised them ducks arnt hard after all, but there is actually a good chance that they lived, they probly dident stay with the family group, brobly lagged around, and slept close, keep a watchfull eye out for em,
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:32


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