Eagles love to eat ducks
Posted in Ducks, Farming, Predators on April 14th, 2011 by Nathan – Be the first to comment
Can you find the eagle in the tree?
It’s not uncommon for us to have eagles come by, but we got to know one up close & personal last week.
Most of our ducks are penned up in 5′ x 10′ open bottomed pens. They get moved to fresh grass every day, but they don’t get to run free. Our runner ducks are the exception. They are too high strung & intelligent to be happy in a pen. They are excellent foragers, and do a great job on holding the slug & bug populations down on our place. At night, they are closed up for protection against raccoons, but at first light, they have been free to roam…. But not any more!
On Monday we heard the geese making a terrible noise. When Kathy and I went out to see what was the problem, we discovered an eagle had decided to breakfast on one of these free range runner ducks. read more »
