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Our resident male mallard duck likes the deer grain.
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He really likes it.
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He likes it so much he climbs into the bowl and guards it.
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And quacks loudly if anyone gets near.
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I think he’s pooping in it as well….
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Which would explain why the deer haven’t been eating it lately.
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River's world..... 
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You do NOT wanna know what I do to MY food to keep others from eating it…
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You’re probably right about that.
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The mallard equivalent of licking every chocolate in the box.
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Ha!
Pretty much…
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Yes, it looks like it’s his food now. He’s really owning it, going by the photos.
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For Mr Duck, possession is 10/10ths of the law.
😉
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Or are the deer just not coming right now?
I presume deer would eat something like a horse, I don’t know. When our thoroughbred was in training for racing, she got all her food in a bucket. The trainer would mix various supplements in with the oat grains, and one would expect the horse would just gobble it up indiscriminately. Not so! I doubt she could see into the bucker, being as her nose must have blocked her view, but sfter eating every last grain was gone, but the supplements were left behind. Even the powders. We watched as best we could, ran some experiments, and somehow she could pick one grain of oats out of a bucket of tiny gravel. She never ate anything she did not want to. Horses are very picky eaters when they want to be. I would presume deer would be just as picky, and eat around unwanted substances. Or maybe not…
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A few deer are still here, though not the large winter herds. They gone at night to nibble… if there’s no grain they eat my birdseed.
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I love how you feed the deer while I take every possible step not to feed the deer.
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And yet the deer don’t eat any of my plants or shrubs like they do at the neighbors….
😊
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Hmm. You might just be onto something there…
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Ducks are just plain rude, pooping in other peoples food. Damn you ducks!
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He didn’t mean it.
Honest…
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In my experience ducks absolutely love peas. So if you want him out of the deer food get some and that way instead of pooping in it he can take a pea.
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I read they liked grapes. So I bought grapes.
They do not like grapes.
Now I’ll buy peas…
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Way to claim it as your own.
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That duck has all of its bases covered…as well as the bowl, of course.🦆
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