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Do Rats Eat Ducklings?

Sarah Jenkins • • 7 min read
Do Rats Eat Ducklings?

Rats tend to be everywhere and most likely they will be attracted to your duck food

duck food
The confit is prepared in a centuries-old process of preservation that consists of salt curing a piece of meat (generally goose, duck, or pork) and then cooking it in its own fat.
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, their poops and pellets. They will even steal your duck eggs and eat the ducklings if they can catch them.

Can rats kill ducklings?

Anna Ford, of Action for the River Kennet, said: “Rats will eat duck eggs and ducklings. ... In recent years the Kennet in Marlborough has had large populations of both wild ducks and domestic/farm escapees, including Muscovy and Mandarin ducks.

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