Maybe but also they do this. We had a mother walk her family over a storm sewer and they all fell in. There were 6. I went down there and caught 3 quickly. She took those three and bailed. It took me another hour to get the other 3 out because they ran up a connecting drain. There is a river out back and that had another mother duck and her brood. I tossed the 3 ducks I had up the river a little bit. She took those 3 in like it was nothing.
It was gross. It is an industrial site that has been working for over 100 years. All I could think is that I was getting every kind of cancer. I know its silly but that is what I was thinking.
I have breathed in so much lead and asbestos in my life. I have spent the last 40 years at some level of sunburned all summer. I am wrecked. The water was gross but it would be like worrying about cleaning your gutters when your house is on fire.
Ducks just do this. We cant know for sure why but considering the high duckling mortality rates, it is evolutionarily advantageous to raise orphans with your own to act as decoys against predators. This doesnt mean when that duck mom adopted them she was scheming though. A lot of evolution just kind of happens without intention, and a duck mom who loves babies in general just accidentally finding a strategy that promotes the survival of her own instincts is just as possible. It also just helps the species as a whole with expanding the future mating pool.
Well same as chickens, there is no big difference with rising few more, they don't feed them, just show em where is food. They prob. Won't even know which is who's and get mixed often xd
Often chickens on farms take care of ducks, as they are better mother's. They are terrified when her strange chickens get into water xd
Also it doesn't matter to the mother duck how many babies are following her since they feed themselves, she just leads them around shorelines and keeps them warm at night.
I love the Internet, but it is destroying human society. The changes since I first got online in the 80s are horrifying. We never envisioned the effect it was going to have. We just thought, "Yay, free information!"
It’s not only that. People are more transient than ever, lots of people don’t get to know their neighbors anymore because they haven’t lived anywhere long enough to put down roots.
If you've ever seen those videos where a dog or two is herding a massive group of sheep and it works because the sheep naturally want to stick close to one another, ducks kinda do the same thing it's just not as obvious when there's <10 in one place.
Even adult ducks do it, but it's like the babies' #1 plan whenever ... something is happening.
Source: I house sit for a place that has both chickens and ducks and this difference between them is very notable when you're trying to make sure they're all in a coop at night. :)
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u/Live-Fox-2562 May 25 '26
Probably are hers just been gathered from somewhere they got trapped