Re: Helping ducklings to experience life...


"OmManiPadmeOmelet" <Omelet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Omelet-F9DE60.00381823012006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <jhZAf.4993$vU2.4105@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Eden <shrubkiller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Fuckwit David Harrison blabbered:
> >
> > > A duck is setting on a nest which she made on the float
> > > at the end of a finger on a dock where I have a boat. When
> > > I noticed her there I knew I'd be taking the boat in and out,
> > > and it would scare her off the nest. So I got some black
> > > plastic and made a blind to close off my inside of the finger
> > > so she couldn't see out and get scared, and dropped it
> > > in place one of the first nights she started to set. It scared
> > > her off then, but she came right back and the blind has
> > > kept her from getting off several times since then.
> > > Why? The baby ducks won't last a month. Some will die
> > > in the first day or two. The mother ducks are followed by
> > > groups of large carp who can eat day or two old ducks,
> > > and apparently attacked by other things since I only saw
> > > two of the many last year live long enough to grow much
> > > feather. It might have been better just to break up the
> > > nest and prevent all that, as "ARAs" want to do to all
> > > domestic animals. But the experience of life must be
> > > worth something, and hopefully it's worth a little effort
> > > on my part to help a few zygotes get to be baby ducks
> > > for a little while.
> >
> > Helping the ducks "get to experience life" is not doing
> > them a good deed. You're doing it for yourself.
>
> I'd watch the nest and take the baby ducks in as they hatched if I
> could, then raise them in an indoor brooder until they were no longer
> small enough to be eaten by carp, then turn them back to the lake.
>
> Or, I'd shoot the carp. ;-)
Now you see, I wouldn't. That is nature. Some animals are designed to be
food for other animals. The carp are doing nothing cruel bad or wrong, they
are simply exploiting a food source. In nature the duck is making a mistake.
To preserve her genes she needs to learn to hatch her young in a safer
place.Carp eat the ducks (or do they as I always understood carp to be
bottom feeding vegetarians), then pike or herons come and eat the carp or
humans do (although they taste muddy). That's the way nature is.


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