Our First Duck Massacre
It was bound to happen at some point, right? Well, it did. Last week, we experienced our first duck massacre.
Not one..
Not two...
Not three...
...but four of our female Khaki Campbell ducks, missing or dead. All in one night. Happy morning to us!
So it began... Mission: Catch the weasel responsible for this massacre (literally)!
Tools:
Spade shovel
The head of one unfortunate and recently deceased duck
Live trap
.22 rifle (sorry, I'm not releasing this menace back out to the wild)
We moved our ducks in with our chickens (our chickens have a much more predator-proof coop). A quick spade shovel to the neck of one of our dead ducks gave me the bait I needed to set my live trap. With the live trap set next to the door of the duck coop, and a little patience, we caught ourselves the culprit of the previous nights bloodbath.
"NO SOUP DUCK FOR YOU!"
Goodbye you cute little menace!
-Jeremy
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