How to pick up a duck 🦆

[nzjayzee@mastodon.nz]

@stufromoz @fzer0 Can vouch. If you front lift then the crop (bit between neck and the body) will fall naturally on your wrist providing balance. A comfortable duck will use legs for low-stress sideways balance. (also this is classic duck strategy - it's becoming too expensive for them to drive their duck cars, so they're looking to alternative forms of transportation)

[fridgitator@mastodon.social]

@fzer0
I had a pet duck when I was a kid. She would follow me around, but when she got tired of walking, she would lean against something to let me know. I would pick her up from behind, and lay her on her back on top of my head. I could hold her in place with a hand on her belly. She would cluck contentedly in my ear as I walked. A duck will not poop while on their back, so much care must be taken during the dismount. It is important to aim her off to one side, away from others

[johnefrancis@cosocial.ca]

@fzer0 @lacybarry does this work on Canada Geese too?

[esistangerichtet@norden.social]

Sorry, goose says no.

@johnefrancis @fzer0 @lacybarry

[fzer0@nerdculture.de]

@esistangerichtet @johnefrancis @lacybarry

sad

[demokratiehoernchen@darmstadt.social]

@fzer0

Let the duckduckgo(.com)!!

*badum ts*

[vk6flab@mastodon.radio]

@fzer0 this reminds me of picking up a lost swan when I was about 14 years old. Everyone around me was panicking. I just gently picked it up, held its wings close to its body, ignored its hissing and walked two blocks from where I found it and put it down at the waters edge and stepped back. It looked at me, shook itself, waddled to the water and swam away. I'm still not sure if I was just lucky, or if people are freaked out by swans.

[drewtowler@mas.to]

@fzer0 Wish this worked with chickens.

[oranger@piaille.fr]

@johnefrancis @esistangerichtet @fzer0 @lacybarry
I wouldn't try again. It chased me away looking ferocious.
#birds

[johnefrancis@cosocial.ca]

@OrangeR @esistangerichtet @fzer0 @lacybarry there's always one that's "standing guard" with its head up. Don't try to pick up that one. Pickup one of the ones that is furiously eating grass.

[stingrayvillacozumel@mastodon.social]

@fzer0 i wish I had a duck

[oranger@piaille.fr]

@fzer0 @esistangerichtet @lacybarry @johnefrancis
Nope, I chickened out already once. (You can see the watchgoose in the second pic). Well... it had rained and areas were muddy I couldn't run fast enough. Who am I to disturb their lunch ?
Also, they respect nothing, they went into the water in spite of it being forbidden.

[peachfront@toot.community]

@OrangeR

"we pose for food, we chase those who show up with cameras but no food, consider yourself warned!" -- goose not just for canada anymore

[oranger@piaille.fr]

@peachfront

[angelthorns@social.treehouse.systems]

@fzer0 Oh my ducking god that duck is adorable

[fzer0@nerdculture.de]

@stingrayvillacozumel

The elites don’t want you to know this but the ducks at the park are free.
You can take them home.
I have 458 ducks.

[frantasaur@mastodon.ie]

@fzer0 @lacybarry @Pepijn

[pomegranate_stew@kind.social]

@vk6flab @fzer0

Both. You were lucky and people are freaked out by swans.

Nice of you to help it out!

[pomegranate_stew@kind.social]

@Fridgitator @fzer0
This sounds like advice learned from experience.

[energisch_@troet.cafe]

@fzer0 sehr hilfreich, very helpful should I ever need it