Squash the duck?

[shilala]

We have a duck who recently hatched a pair of ducklings.
She's not much of a mother and is very inattentive.
Last week she lost one of her babies and it eventually froze and died. Last night she repeated the deed and baby number two is dead.

Mind you, it's her only job. She eats, shyts, lays eggs, and hatches babies. Her part of the "getting fed" deal is that she raises babies a couple times a year.

What do you do with a duck who doesn't have the capacity to raise ducklings?

 

[shuan24]

in soviet russia, the duck stomps you!

 

[xSauronx]

dinner.

 

[So]

Jury of her peers....they'll go quackers when they hear about her fowl crimes. They'll probably punish her with egg-sile.

:evil:

 

[hjo3]

It's a fscking duck. What do you expect? You should have taken care of the duckling yourself after the first one died.

 

[illusion88]

Originally posted by: So
Jury of her peers....they'll go quackers when they hear about her fowl crimes. They'll probably punish her with egg-sile.

:evil:

sweet sweet puns.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Shyts, lol.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: illusion88

Originally posted by: So
Jury of her peers....they'll go quackers when they hear about her fowl crimes. They'll probably punish her with egg-sile.

:evil:

sweet sweet puns.

Yeah, I should have ducked after laying such awful puns.

 

[DaTT]

Soups on!

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: xSauronx
dinner.

 

[shilala]

Originally posted by: hjo3
It's a fscking duck. What do you expect? You should have taken care of the duckling yourself after the first one died.

You're not very well versed with reality are you?
Let me introduce you...
Ducks raise their babies. They've done it for thousands of years. It's the natural way of things.
A duck that can't raise it's offspring is way fvcked, likely the result of some sort of sordid duck/mailman mating.

 

[hjo3]

Originally posted by: shilala

Originally posted by: hjo3
It's a fscking duck. What do you expect? You should have taken care of the duckling yourself after the first one died.

You're not very well versed with reality are you?
Let me introduce you...
Ducks raise their babies. They've done it for thousands of years. It's the natural way of things.
A duck that can't raise it's offspring is way fvcked, likely the result of some sort of sordid duck/mailman mating.

Some animals aren't capable of raising their young on their own. This becomes apparent with cursory inspection. Had you been paying attention, you could have kept the offspring from dying.

I kept chickens for a number of years and often had to rescue chicks from their incompetent mothers or themselves (they tend to huddle and crush one another). Just because half or more of a creature's offspring normally die in the wild doesn't mean you have to let that cruelty continue when they're in your care.

And blaming a duck, or any dumb animal, for what it does is just stupid.

 

[shilala]

Originally posted by: hjo3

Originally posted by: shilala

Originally posted by: hjo3
It's a fscking duck. What do you expect? You should have taken care of the duckling yourself after the first one died.

You're not very well versed with reality are you?
Let me introduce you...
Ducks raise their babies. They've done it for thousands of years. It's the natural way of things.
A duck that can't raise it's offspring is way fvcked, likely the result of some sort of sordid duck/mailman mating.

Some animals aren't capable of raising their young on their own. This becomes apparent with cursory inspection. Had you been paying attention, you could have kept the offspring from dying.

I kept chickens for a number of years and often had to rescue chicks from their incompetent mothers or themselves (they tend to huddle and crush one another). Just because half or more of a creature's offspring normally die in the wild doesn't mean you have to let that cruelty continue when they're in your care.

And blaming a duck, or any dumb animal, for what it does is just stupid.

Where's the sense in promoting a quality that ensures a species demise?
Is it not more responsible as a custodian of the breed's plight to select for life-sustaining traits rather than to isolate an undesirable trait?

 

[Kilgor]

Originally posted by: shilala

Originally posted by: hjo3

Originally posted by: shilala

Originally posted by: hjo3
It's a fscking duck. What do you expect? You should have taken care of the duckling yourself after the first one died.

You're not very well versed with reality are you?
Let me introduce you...
Ducks raise their babies. They've done it for thousands of years. It's the natural way of things.
A duck that can't raise it's offspring is way fvcked, likely the result of some sort of sordid duck/mailman mating.

Some animals aren't capable of raising their young on their own. This becomes apparent with cursory inspection. Had you been paying attention, you could have kept the offspring from dying.

I kept chickens for a number of years and often had to rescue chicks from their incompetent mothers or themselves (they tend to huddle and crush one another). Just because half or more of a creature's offspring normally die in the wild doesn't mean you have to let that cruelty continue when they're in your care.

And blaming a duck, or any dumb animal, for what it does is just stupid.

Where's the sense in promoting a quality that ensures a species demise?
Is it not more responsible as a custodian of the breed's plight to select for life-sustaining traits rather than to isolate an undesirable trait?

The species has been around a long time without your help. You?re raising a duck in an unnatural environment. It might not know how to take care of its offspring because of you?re interference. Someone should take the duck from you because failed to do you?re job as its custodian and saved the chicks.

 

[Fritzo]

It's probably a welfare duck. That's how they treat all their babies. Probably going out and blowing her government check on Colt 45 and tatoos.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: So
Jury of her peers....they'll go quackers when they hear about her fowl crimes. They'll probably punish her with egg-sile.

:evil:

/throws peanuts at SO

 

[sixone]

Was this her first batch of ducklings? I know with cats, it sometimes takes a litter or two for the mother to get with the program, so to speak. I wonder if ducks are the same.