06-21-2022, 03:54 PM
I love ducks. A more innocent, funny, more sociable and goofy little creature is hard to imagine.
We raised geese for a while, and they were fun (I thought), but they can be a PITA also. They can get big and ornery, and very protective. I never had a problem with our geese, but a lot of other people did. Unfortunately, we could never raise ducks here. They'd just be "snacks" for the coyotes and owls in the first week. Ultimately it was the coyotes, hawks and owls which made even chickens and geese not worth it to raise anymore either. The predators were just a constant daily pressure, always lurking somewhere day and night, on the ground and from the sky. Unless you kept them tightly penned up where they could never run around free, and stayed right with them every second they were out they were goners.
We raised geese for a while, and they were fun (I thought), but they can be a PITA also. They can get big and ornery, and very protective. I never had a problem with our geese, but a lot of other people did. Unfortunately, we could never raise ducks here. They'd just be "snacks" for the coyotes and owls in the first week. Ultimately it was the coyotes, hawks and owls which made even chickens and geese not worth it to raise anymore either. The predators were just a constant daily pressure, always lurking somewhere day and night, on the ground and from the sky. Unless you kept them tightly penned up where they could never run around free, and stayed right with them every second they were out they were goners.