Helen M
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4 new calls :-)someone has dumped four beautiful white call ducks at a certain country park. they are a bit timid amongst all the wild ducks and swans and i have just been asked if i want them...
after flat duck episode it seems as one door closes another opens 
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bodger
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Whats the betting they're all drakes Helen ?
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Helen M
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| bodger wrote: | | Whats the betting they're all drakes Helen ? |
i just looked...they are all girls or at least three are i couldn't see the others bum
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Penny
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Re: 4 new calls :-) | Helen M wrote: | | it seems as one door closes another opens |
just mind the ducks when it opens 
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bodger
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Go get em girl !
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Helen M
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| bodger wrote: | | Go get em girl ! |
I just need to catch em now  oh and i am sure hillarity will ensue
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bodger
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The Acme duck outfit should do the job.
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Bebo
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Caught them ducks yet?
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Helen M
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| Bebo wrote: | | Caught them ducks yet? |
just leaving the house now, in a minute (yeah i know, i'm welsh).
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Bebo
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| Helen M wrote: | | Bebo wrote: | | Caught them ducks yet? |
just leaving the house now, in a minute (yeah i know, i'm welsh). |
Don't worry, farting about instead of getting on with a task is not a purely welsh trait. I'm supposed to be sorting out a brooder for the chicks that are hatching in the incubator as we speak, but I'm mucking about on here instead.
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Bodrighy
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I think it's a celtic trait, we tend to do things 'dreckly' down here in Kernow 
Pete
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Bebo
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| Bodrighy wrote: | I think it's a celtic trait, we tend to do things 'dreckly' down here in Kernow
Pete |
Oi, hope you aren't insinuating that I'm a Celt.
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Bodrighy
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| Bebo wrote: | | Bodrighy wrote: | I think it's a celtic trait, we tend to do things 'dreckly' down here in Kernow
Pete |
Oi, hope you aren't insinuating that I'm a Celt. |
I never flatter people I don't know well enough.
Pete
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Helen M
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upon getting close enough to see them properly they are not calls. unless they are super giant calls they are aylesburys...they are lovely though. alas only one down...three to go...any hints and tips on duck capture?
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Helen M
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three down one to go
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Chez
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Waders and wait til it's gone to bed?
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Helen M
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| Chez wrote: | | Waders and wait til it's gone to bed? |
unfortunately i am 15 miles away  however they a greedy little buggers and if i get there early enough i can just pick em up while they are stuffing themselves
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Helen M
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no chance with number four this morning, she is getting wise to me
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Mutton
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Never kept ducks so this may well be complete rubbish.
If you brought back one of her old mates in a big cage, do you think that would lure her over?
Cats Protection League have cat catching cages I once used (for cats). So thinking of that design, wondering if you set up one of those, with the closed end against the old mates cage, plus food in it, just maybe she'd walk into the trap?
Outside chance CPL might lend you a cage. Or there is the RSPCA as a possible source of useful things for catching animals.
Otherwise old sheet - light, large area, toss it over the duck. If windy use something like wooden pegs to weight the far side and ideally toss it downwind. Tea towels work on budgies, so scaling up for ducks.
Then you have to carefully locate the worried bit under the cloth, tuck cloth under it and lift up bagged bird.
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Helen M
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no luck this morning
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Helen M
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no
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mochyn
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I can sympathbise; I need to catch 4 young muscovies at some point very soon to clip their wings... However, you're making me laugh Helen...
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Helen M
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I am now being refered to as the "crazy duck lady" by our regulars and my early morning jaunts to the lake with my pet box and a loaf of bread is gathering quite a following and "Florence" as she is named is getting wise. she knows I am after her and will only come over if I have some yummy bread...she turns her beak up at the poultry feed. Fills her belly just out of arms reach and then waddles off at high speed back to the lake mocking me 
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Chez
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What about a large net-thingy? 
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Helen M
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still no 
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Drewsephine
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Try some pancakes, hoisin sauce and cucumber. For some reason they go really well together
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