We have run into a problem with a muscovy drake swap. We delivered a young (19 wk) drake to a farm last night. We let him out. It was our bad judgement that we let it out where there was a full sized muscovy drake and a pair of geese (M&F). We should have requested to leave him in a separate area...lesson #1.
Well, we got an email this morning from the lady (she was not home, but her SO was at trading time), that she had checked on the new duck later on that night. She claimed that it had angel wing (it certainly did not)...or an injury, and she would have to watch it to see if it would need to be put down (um, if we got it back, we would either try to figure out if we could help heal the injury...I would ask here for advice), or we would just plain eat him.
Now, we do understand that we may have injured it upon release, but we are not sure. We should have checked...lesson #2. Now, we have offered to return hers and take ours back, but we want to know what you might do. How do you check for an injury that may have been caused by other larger fowl, and how would you determine if the injury was caused by a medium dog carrier release? This duck had plenty of space and a large opening to come out as well. We do not treat them harshly (like pulling them/whatever) to get them to come out. We are always very gentle, but things can happen (and we would take responsibility for that in that case).
Well, we got an email this morning from the lady (she was not home, but her SO was at trading time), that she had checked on the new duck later on that night. She claimed that it had angel wing (it certainly did not)...or an injury, and she would have to watch it to see if it would need to be put down (um, if we got it back, we would either try to figure out if we could help heal the injury...I would ask here for advice), or we would just plain eat him.
Now, we do understand that we may have injured it upon release, but we are not sure. We should have checked...lesson #2. Now, we have offered to return hers and take ours back, but we want to know what you might do. How do you check for an injury that may have been caused by other larger fowl, and how would you determine if the injury was caused by a medium dog carrier release? This duck had plenty of space and a large opening to come out as well. We do not treat them harshly (like pulling them/whatever) to get them to come out. We are always very gentle, but things can happen (and we would take responsibility for that in that case).
Well makes you wonder if the other drake, or the geese attacked it? It should have been left in a cage or crate in the barn 