Oversexed drake

Re: Oversexed drake

bob lehner — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 20:40:35 GMT

[quote user="Michael Woodhouse"]Drakes are randy buggers[/quote]

Indeed they are - and anyone who has watched a gang of mallard drakes pursuing a female on the water will have a lot of sympathy for her. Many females are drowned by their violent suitors.

QI fact - (maybe you all know it - but it had passed me by until recently, when I happened to be watching a drake chasing a female round my friend's duck pen and suddenly noticed a remarkably long bright red wriggly appendage hanging from his ventrum). Male ducks are one of the very few bird species to have a penis. Chickens and most others don't - they just rub cloacas to do the business).

Warning - X -rated - don't watch this if you are of a sensitive nature:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qwjEeI2SmiU

Re: Oversexed drake

emma_j — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:30:15 GMT

Is it not? We have some on the shelf here and Centaur has it available to order?

Re: Oversexed drake

Michael Woodhouse — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 23:10:22 GMT

[quote user="Catherine Williams"]Apparently the mechanics of size mean that nothing can happen[/quote]

Tell that to the Labrador bitch impregnated by a Patterdale.........

Drakes are randy buggers. The solution is more ducks (spread the love), pen him up or put him in the pot.

There is the extra issue here before filling him up with endogenous hormones - he is potentially a food producing animal. He could end up being given away and ending up on someone's dinner plate.

(In the end we killed all our drakes)

Re: Oversexed drake

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:58:37 GMT

Have used Tardak in my own budgie succesfully and would like to use it on another patient but it is not available anymore. Has anyone used anything similar succesfully???

Re: Oversexed drake

Catherine Williams — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:45:06 GMT

I had a vague memory of using tardak for something similar but I couldn't find references to it anywhere

Re: Oversexed drake

emma_j — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:34:52 GMT

I've used Tardak in chickens before for similar issues (with sucess) - Intervet (I think it was at the time?) was very helpful with some off-licence data they had so it might be worth talking to whichever drug company they've turned into now!