The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: little blue on September 25, 2011, 08:46:21 pm
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o/h came in today saying "bring a bag, or a box. Your drake is a murderer!"
I thought he meant that the drake had drowned one of his girls, randy little devils that they are.
put my wellies on and went out with a black bag to find ....
... an enormous bloated rat floating in the duck pond! (bath)
its at least the second time we've found a dead rat in their bath - o/h says he saw the drake actually holding this one down under the water!
so they've all had extra corn as a treat, well done boy, that's another b**ger gone! :thumbsup:
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must be some drake to hold a rat down to drown they have some strength when there life is expiring :farmer:
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oooh I was thinking of getting cats to help around the farm maybe I'm wrong and should get ducks instead ;D
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Can I borrow him ::) - my Jack just stands there and watches them run in steal their food, then run up the tree. I don't think my girls notice. How did he get the rat into the water?
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oh, I was worried when I started to read this post - we had a pond casualty in the summer (sadly not a rat!), suspecting the tandem of boys. I was so cross, one is now spending the rest of his life in an enclosure with monkeys, he was lucky I did not murder him but the punishment is greater this way ;D ;D :&>
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I know what you mean NFD, I constantly worry about one of our girls being drowned by her over-amorous fella... she waits til after they've been in the pond (bath!) befor she'll go in.
I didn't know you had monkeys?!
We have 4 cats, they are good ratters too. the bloomin' rats have a run I think under the ducks' bath where it can drain. Found that they've chewed a hole in the chicken shed wall, in a really awkward place. Hope that was the rat the duck caught!
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I didn't know you had monkeys?!
;D ;D ;D we don't, a nearby animal park does ;D :&>
if there is so much evidence of the buggers now, what will it be like in the winter for you??? :o
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I wonder if his offspring will inherit the killer trait? ;D that would be an interesting marketing ploy for the eggs
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if there is so much evidence of the buggers now, what will it be like in the winter for you??? :o
we're kind of used to it - the bloomin' cats will bring rats, mice and shrews home from the factory & mill behind us, if they don't catch them at home!!
we have traps, poisons, and big sticks as well as the cats & ducks... and sometimes borrow next doors' JRT!
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Oooh. There are two dead mice in our little pond, I wonder.....?!
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:D :D