Hi #fediverse.

[standard_phil@infosec.exchange]

@Pepijn I've voted no, because I've only picked up a duckling, never a full grown duck.

Having met some adult ducks, I'm not sure it's as easy as the instructional video suggests.

[irishcath@mas.to]

@Pepijn Leave them alone

[drowningduck@mastodon.social]

@Pepijn I like ducks

[deepmud@mas.to]

@kobold the way I used to pick up geese was to grab them by the neck very close to their head, and just a second later I would put the other arm around their body so their wings are held close and cannot flap.

I should say that I've never picked up a goose who did not know me, and I have *never* tried this on a swan. Swans are *much* more powerful than geese and a lot meaner

Good luck! Send photos of bruises from wing blows!

[edwilk@mstdn.social]

@kobold tell it that you think it's really hot

[aprilfollies@mastodon.online]

@Pepijn @mwt I picked up a duckling once. This turned out to be a major mistake on my part, as Mama Duck took violent exception. I hear birds have hollow bones, but I swear being battered around the head by duck wings is NO joke.

Don’t get me started on geese…

[whitecattamer@mastodon.online]

@Pepijn I have not tried to pick up either a duck or a swan, but I have helped a tortoise that was older than me climb into my lap.

[deepmud@mas.to]

@Pepijn ducks are easy, except the one I picked up pooped all over me.

Geese are harder.

Swans are evil. Don't do it

[dasparky@spore.social]

@Pepijn ducks, chickens, and geese. Still have faint scars on my forearms from their unintentional scratches.

[mcnado@mstdn.social]

@Pepijn real men have tried to pick up a pelican. They also now have an eye patch.

[beachbum@mastodon.sdf.org]

@Pepijn I see them all the time I live near a park. They’re lovely. But I have no desire to pick them up.

[beachbum@mastodon.sdf.org]

@Pepijn If I ever do have the desire to pick up a duck, now I know how.

[alexshendi@rollenspiel.social]

@Pepijn

No, I haven't. That's why I survived.

[silvermoon82@wandering.shop]

@Pepijn
No duck or swan, but I've met a pet chicken. She was a sweetie and I did pick her up.

I had an opportunity to pick up a goose once, but I chose life.

[carstenboll@mstdn.dk]

@Pepijn not a swan, of course, since I am not suicidal. But plenty of ducks and chickens.

I think of swans as pretty geese, and geese delight in fucking you up if they can.

[nlarson830@techhub.social]

@Pepijn

Furthermore, not just tried, but actually did.
Picked up geese too.

[src_esther@mastodon.online]

@SnyperWolf
A hairy hare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare

@Pepijn

[thias@mastodon.social]

@Pepijn at least for the mute swan which is the most common in Switzerland, I was always told to leave these guys alone, and if one is stuck on a road or something, to call the police. These things can be mean.

[phrozeltic@mstdn.dk]

@CarstenBoll @Pepijn
Can confirm this. Not mentioning their “landmine” shit.

[timwardcam@c.im]

@Pepijn Step 1 to pick up a swan in the UK is to ask the King for permission.