Pretty sure I hit the qualifications for Bonkers today. Go ahead. Ask me why there is a ducking in my parakeet cage. With the parakeets still in it!
Ok, I'll tell you anyway.....
First I have to set the background, otherwise it makes no sense.... lol
I live in the city. Within sight of the house there is a fried chicken place, a mortuary and several stop n go gas stations that cook fried foods. I have been trying for several years now to raise chickens in the backyard. Between dog attacks, a hawk attack, cat attacks and traffic things have not gone well. Living this close to so many food places, there are lots and lots of rats outside. They decided they liked chicken dinner. A lot. and chicken feed, and chicken bedding and so on. Now I have no beef with rats as a race, (big points for the pun!) as I have in the past raised and bred fancy rats as pets. Wild city rats are a whole other issue, however. So when my traps came up empty, and the cats could not keep up with the volume, I did the awful.... I poisoned them. and gas bombed them and packed their holes shut. and I ran out of chickens.
After a few months, nagging children convinced me to try again. ok, so I bought 6 ducklings from the feed store and put them on the screened in side porch. no good. the rats chewed in and I lost 3 of them. one thing and another and I repaird the outside chicken run and put the remaining ducks out there. One of the ducks had a lame leg from a rat attack. They were a bit bigger, and I had hopes they'd be ok. and for a little while they were.
Then the attacks started again! One duck was bitten in the head pretty badly and we brought it in to try and nurse it back. After a few days, it was over. So now I had 2 remaining ducks. Today the kids go out to feed and the lame duck was dead., no marks on the body. Don't know exactly what happened.
And THAT is why I have a duck in my parakeet cage. and yes, I have in fact looked online for 'duck diapers' and priced them. Actually they are chicken diapers, but that's kinda odd don't you think? I'm not entirely sure how it's going to go over with the cats, but when the duck gets bigger, it won't be that much of an issue.
Honestly, I don't know how these things happen to me!!!
Ok, I'll tell you anyway.....
First I have to set the background, otherwise it makes no sense.... lol
I live in the city. Within sight of the house there is a fried chicken place, a mortuary and several stop n go gas stations that cook fried foods. I have been trying for several years now to raise chickens in the backyard. Between dog attacks, a hawk attack, cat attacks and traffic things have not gone well. Living this close to so many food places, there are lots and lots of rats outside. They decided they liked chicken dinner. A lot. and chicken feed, and chicken bedding and so on. Now I have no beef with rats as a race, (big points for the pun!) as I have in the past raised and bred fancy rats as pets. Wild city rats are a whole other issue, however. So when my traps came up empty, and the cats could not keep up with the volume, I did the awful.... I poisoned them. and gas bombed them and packed their holes shut. and I ran out of chickens.
After a few months, nagging children convinced me to try again. ok, so I bought 6 ducklings from the feed store and put them on the screened in side porch. no good. the rats chewed in and I lost 3 of them. one thing and another and I repaird the outside chicken run and put the remaining ducks out there. One of the ducks had a lame leg from a rat attack. They were a bit bigger, and I had hopes they'd be ok. and for a little while they were.
Then the attacks started again! One duck was bitten in the head pretty badly and we brought it in to try and nurse it back. After a few days, it was over. So now I had 2 remaining ducks. Today the kids go out to feed and the lame duck was dead., no marks on the body. Don't know exactly what happened.
And THAT is why I have a duck in my parakeet cage. and yes, I have in fact looked online for 'duck diapers' and priced them. Actually they are chicken diapers, but that's kinda odd don't you think? I'm not entirely sure how it's going to go over with the cats, but when the duck gets bigger, it won't be that much of an issue.
Honestly, I don't know how these things happen to me!!!
