Lmao definitely ducks. Not mine just wild. Two moms had been nesting under the stairs for a while(didn’t know they did that btw!) I’d only moved in after the first babies were hatched. Got to see both hatchling sets. Ugh they were adorable! Females were so mean to each other’s babies tho despite sharing a nest like twice before one moved on, so I don’t get that
There's a pond where I work that gets ducks. One year there were two broods of ducklings and one mother stole the other mother's babies. The other mom hung around for a bit before getting chased off.
We have a duck that comes every year to the exam same spot in my garden to lay eggs. Every year I cared for her, brought her food and she even lets me take and pack her babies into a box to take them to the river.
Here's the thing - horses are pretty fragile. My vet used to be a traveling livestock vet before she opened her clinic about twenty years ago, and any time someone says "healthy as a horse," she likes to remind them that horses truly want to die, and it's more than a full-time job keeping them from achieving that goal. They're just usually also big, which is most of what makes them strong and powerful. If they were duck-sized, though? You could kick them into next week as quick as you could look at 'em. They wouldn't be a threat at all.
A horse-sized duck would be something like a giant ostrich, which is already not a pleasant bird - and in that case, I would like to remind you about other large and violent birds like the cassowary, and how Australia lost a war to emus. Ducks are strong enough that when they get together in groups to sexually assault a female duck, they can easily drown her and still spend a while assaulting the corpse after. We do not want or need giant birds, and you'd get your shit wrecked by them. A horse-sized duck is an immediate threat and should cause you large amounts of serious concern and panic.
my favorite fucked up horse fact is that while we definitely had some involvement in them getting where they are now, we didn't actually cause most of the core issues, horses just kinda... did that... evolutions just fucked them up for no reason lmao
it's a good example and reminder that evolution isn't inherently intelligent or purposeful- without specific selection pressure to wean negative characteristics, all sorts of dumb traits and features can go on propagating just fine.
Every single duck survived the Biblical flood because they float. Didn't need Noah. And that means that a good percentage of them are fully evil. Just lousy with sin.
Incidentally, this is the whole reason why it's okay to eat fish.
I guess it depends on where you live, but in most cases if you see a domestic duck on a pond it's been dumped there and left to die. You should unironically take it and find them a proper flock to be part of if permitted.
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u/Peripatetictyl 9h ago
If you see a duck, you can take it, they are free.