Muscovy Boys Check-In
“The Muscovy Boys” are so far living up to their reputation at the park as aggressive, marauding attackers. They spent their first day at their new home chasing and biting the goats. I guess now that people aren’t walking by, they got bored.
We’re hoping they learn to behave a little better as they settle in and realize:
1. There is always food available for them
2. The goats don’t have the food
Their new family named them “Rex” and “Turk.” Muscovies look a little like dinosaurs crossed with turkeys, so T-Rex and Turkey were the inspiration for their new names. I’m not quite sure which one is which, but I’ll try to find out.
They ate treats from the hands of the kids in the family, and didn’t bite any humans (just goats). They got to swim in their own pool and they even went back to their pen all on their own. Their pen is open now so they can come and go, but they have decided it is their home base.
Keep your fingers crossed that Rex & Turk ease up on the goat-chasing once they get a few good meals in their bellies.
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Uh oh, hey guys, be nice to the goats! I wonder why they do that, I think they substitute the dogs for goats now:-( Maybe they have had bad experiences with dogs early on in life and feel they have to defend themselves?
Maybe they could be penned a little longer and try to slowly train them to love goats instead of attacking them. I hope they will settle down. Thanks for the update.
Hope it doesn’t take too long before they switch from survival mode to being “kept” ducks!
How do the goats react to this? Is this something the goats and ducks can work out amongst themselves? Like reach an agreement of some sort or will the ducks have to go if they cannot cool it?
Hope these 2 ducks can calm down. They are not trying to be “bad”. What they are doing is reasonable given their experiences.