Marmaduck was a year old. She was hatched in our incubator a few days before I went on vacation last May. Until I got Duke a couple of months ago she was the only muscovey duck we had.
While I was away Rob thought he lost her, he found her a couple of days later snuggled under our white silky hen who had literally taken her under her wing to raise her.
She was the coolest duck. She would come flying to me when I called her and would eat from my hand.
The Campbell ducks started to ignore her so a couple of months ago I got a male companion for her. She had been sitting on a nest of her eggs for the last couple of weeks.
Yesterday her nest was empty and the eggs cold. There were a few feathers scattered about.
I came in the house and went to bed. I slept all day. I couldn't even bear to go look for her.
Rob found her body for me last night and took care of her for me.
A bastard mink had killed her.