Bird
For some reason this post caused me to search to see if there are types of birdseed which are not suitable for ducks. From a few minutes of reading, I’m relatively sure now that at least all common types of birdseed are fine for them. But, along the way, I found this LLM slop
https://plantnative.org/can-ducks-eat-bird-seed.htm
(URL rendered unclickable since it is spam) which strongly implies that ducks are not in fact birds:- “Yes, ducks do eat bird seed. Although bird seeds are specifically prepared to meet the nutrient demand of birds. But still, bird seed can be served as a snack to ducks in limited amounts.”
- “Bird seeds are loaded with nutrients and can be beneficial for ducks the way they are for birds.”
Me at the market looking up if this specific brand of bird seed is bad for ducks while the crow next to me is dipping a cheeto in a puddle of engine oil
The crow was probably just a witches’ familiar and thus was able to use magic to transmute the oily cheeto into actual food
Ducks and birds? What is this magic
Ducks are clearly dinosaurs.
which strongly implies that ducks are not in fact birds
Well, duh. Birds aren’t real, they’re drones made by the government. But who in the hell would make a duck-shaped drone? That’s absolutely absurd
They stick their faces in muck water and suck everything up while looking for food. Ducks can eat a lot of things.
I have ducks and they go absolutely crazy for watermelon. My neighbor gave me half a watermelon the other day because he couldn’t fit it in his fridge. I have it to the ducks and they went wild. Luke a cartoon style piranha feeding frenzy. The white birds looked like they’d been drenched in the blood of their enemies. One of them decided to sit in the empty rind after they were done and laid an egg in it, to assert dominance.
They also love birdseed and peas. I had a duck who could recognize canned peas based on the labels and would flip out if he saw me approaching with them. He also adored bird seed and would help himself to the bag if it was in a place he could knock it over. Found him stuck in an empty birdseed bag once. It wasn’t empty that morning. Bro was a glutton, but he was a good boi.
One of them decided to sit in the empty rind after they were done and laid an egg in it
Wait, really? The rest of your comment sounds sincere, but this is so absurd that I genuinely can’t tell if this happened or if you’re just being funny.
Yeah. Ducks are absolutely ridiculous creatures. My two pekins follow the cat motto of “if I fits I sits.” I find them in silly places all the time. The female, Judy’s, favorite place to sit outside is a hole she dug herself over a couple of months.
Duck tax means sending cute pictures of ducks btw.
You have to give it every time you mention you own a duck.Now without further ado, send duck pics.
Duck tax sent in response to the first tax request comment
Tax evasion??
I definitely made the comment but I’m thinking that I didn’t do a reply, but a comment on the post overall. -_-
The tax is in my profile. I just checked it. Don’t come after me DRS (Duck revenue service)
That sounds so cute. Would you mind paying the Duck Tax?
We had pekin and they figured out a good food hack. We fed the flocks using gutters (then everyone can feed without fighting for space). But the pekins would straddle the gutter, stick their head in the feed with mouth open, and then flap forward and kick their feet to ‘ride’ the gutter and scoop up as much food as possible. It was highly effective.
They ate 10x more than a regular duck and were 5x louder and always involved with any shenanigans going down. Fuck Pekin ducks.
Lmao that’s hilarious and sounds right for pekins. My boi Salt is so chonky. I feed my birds by making piles of feed in different areas. He just barrels his way through the flock to get first pick of the piles. He eats like he’s starved.
Not OP but totally sounds real.
Ducks are like that for sure. They will certainly claim a spot. And eggs just kinda come out the egg hole sometimes. Especially if they aren’t able to secure a nest to lay on a schedule.
I’ve seen eggs roll out while they are running past to get to their pond.
My girls tend to lay inside their house, but sometimes I’ll find eggs in random spots outside.
Half cut seedless grapes
Note: if you choose to feed grapes to ducks in a public place, please be courteous about any that may fall on the ground or be left uneaten. Grapes are dangerous for dogs and aren’t good for cats either, but some will absolutely eat them if they’re left around.
The first thing they ask for IS grapes.
OMG! Same!
ducks also go crazy for blueberries. I raised a duck and they were always his favorite
Turkeys too. Rick & Morty taught me that.
Then, suddenly, Diogenes appears, plucks every feather from the duck, shoves it into the faces of those sitting on the bench, screams ‘This is no bird, behold, a man!’, laughs manically, shits in the duck pond, runs away.
Fuckin’ Diogenes, man.
After shitting in the duck pond and fleeing, he returns to his tiny home:
A fuck-off huge, old wine barrel.
I read “shoves it into the faces…” as “shaves it into the faces…” and the horror of the scenario was amplified as I imagined a crazed, naked, Greek witling a duck into some kind of fleshy Mount Rushmore.
Bird is the word
Oh, it’s not for growing them?
Chose pics from a span of 4 years that shows a variety of birds. The lil shits have been hard to get pics of lately because they’ve been acting spicy. I think the heat this summer is making them cranky.
I have 9 birds now, all grown. 2 Muscovy females named Lady and Mama Duck. Mama Duck will fight anyone and anything she thinks is gonna mess with the flock. I caught her trying to fight a deer the other day when she escaped xontainment. One female Pekin named Judy, who judges the fuck outta me every time I see her. One male Pekin named Salt who is chonky. One female golden layer named Caprisun, who is by far the dumbest bird I’ve ever met. One male khaki Campbell named Pepper, who is bonded with Salt. One khaki Campbell female named Cayenne, who doesn’t have a super distinct personality. One mallard female named Amy, who looks like a male because when female duck ovaries die, they start to look like males. One female Cayuga named Chanel who is like Cayenne with no distinct personality lol.
The real big one in the pics below was Antonio. A gigantic Muscovy male. Best bird I ever had. He was so happy and loved caring for babies and loved hugs and pets. When he had babies to care for, he was known as Big Papa Tony. He sadly passed this past winter.
Last one looks like a 2010 meme template rofl.
This reminds me of an old family story. My grandpa used to have an uncle who had flamingo’s. Imagine walking through a Dutch village somewhere in the 60’s and seeing a bunch of flamingo’s standing in some muddy ditch. I have have no clue how he they ended up there, but it apparently wasn’t the first time he ended up with some tropical animal. My grandpa had to take care of them for a while, but didn’t really know what to feed them. He also had some parrots and would buy food for them from the miller. Considering these were also birds, just larger, he went to the miller and asked for food for flamingo’s. The miller did not know what flamingo’s were. He therefore explained that they were large pink birds. The miller was not convinced, thinking he was pulling his leg and sent him away with a few bags of chicken feed.
Your story is awesome… excuse any of my grammar errors… Flamingo’s shows ownership vs Flamingos which is multiple.
What possession of the flamingos does your uncle have‽ I’m imagining it’s their pink dye
Around these parts we call that getting sternwheeled, after my wife’s stunning realization that they are so named because of the wheel at their stern.
EDIT: I am not good at word.
This confused me because “strewheel” doesn’t work as a search term and I wasn’t even sure how to pronounce it much less understand it. Until I reread your comment and used commonsense logic to figure out you must have misspelt “sternwheel” or “sternwheeler.” Which was still a word I don’t remember ever hearing, but it’s easy to look up. And I bet it’s findable somewhere in Mark Twain, but it’s been a generation since I’ve read him.
Ducks is bird.
Is this in Wales?
Chopped lettuce
Really? LETTUCE? As if we needed more proof that birds aren’t real