Uninhibited DUCKS North Canterbury Duck Rescue

19/06/2025

🦆 TOO MANY DUCKS — TIME TO FIND THEIR FOREVER HOMES! 🦆
Please share this post if you can — it makes all the difference!

Adoption Day this Sat please contact 020 406 41485 to book.

We have more ducks than space, and it’s time to find loving, forever homes for some of our beautiful, quirky, stroppy, cuddly, hilarious, and highly individual feather babies.

These ducks are:
✅ Absolutely loved and adored
✅ All different breeds, colours, and personalities
✅ A mix of girls, boys, flappers, loungers, quackers, and romantics
✅ Some are laying hens, others are quiet bromance boys who would be ideal for town living or peace-loving paddocks

If you’ve ever thought:

“I’d love a couple of ducks in my backyard
or “I want some beautiful, calm boys who won’t wake the neighbours
or “I want to collect fresh eggs and also laugh daily at fluffy chaos…”
…then there is absolutely a duck here for you.
We’re offering these beloved birds as pets only — not for meat. They bring joy, routine, weirdness, beauty, and more than a few stolen peas into your life.
💛 If you have room in your life for a couple of companion
💛 Or a space on your land for a small floc
💛 Or you’re ready to start your own little backyard duck chapter

Please text Or WhatsApp me to enquire 020 406 41485
If you can’t adopt, please share this post. Share it into lifestyle groups, tag a friend, or post it to your local buy/sell pages — you never know who’s been dreaming of ducks and just needed a gentle nudge.

The right homes are out there — we just need your help to find them.
Thank you so much.
🦆💚

13/06/2025

FREE PET PERSONALITY READING!

Hey guys, I know somebody who is very good at reading, and recognising pet personality, motivation, and character . They are willing to offer a personality assessment and reading for free.

All you need to do is post a reply answering these questions, and when your pets reading is posted, reply to that with your feedback on how well you think it described your pet. This is a fun, entertainment only, exercise to discover more about the personality of your pet. This is not an offer to give any sort of veterinary/ Medical diagnosis or advice for your pet.

There is a strictly limited number of readings offered, and this is being offered elsewhere as well, so if you would like one please don't waste any time and post your answers to the questions ASAP. Yes this is100% free the only ask is your feedback on the reading📖🐶🐈‍⬛🐇🦆🐓🐹🐁🐴🐑🐄🐐🐍🐠🦔

Any type of pet is welcome!

What’s your pet’s name, species, and breed?
(e.g., Ruffy, Shar-Pei dog)
2. How old is your pet?
(Exact age or estimate is fine — “around 2 years” is perfect too)
3. How would you describe your pet’s personality in 2–3 sentences?
(Is your pet calm, sassy, chaotic, shy, cuddly, anxious, stubborn, etc.?)
4. What are your pet’s funniest or most memorable quirks?
(E.g., sits on your head, howls at the vacuum, guards the bathroom)
5. What do they absolutely love doing?
(Cuddles, fetch, digging, swimming, stealing socks?)
6. What’s something they always do that drives you a little bit crazy?
(Jumping on guests, barking at nothing, ignoring commands?)
7. What’s your relationship like with your pet?
(Do they follow you everywhere? Sleep in bed? Are they more attached to one family member?)
8. What are you hoping to understand or feel from this reading?
(Insight into their soul? Why they act a certain way? Comfort after a tough time?)
9. Do you want a lighthearted, spiritual, emotional, or funny reading?
(Choose as many as you like. You can say “a mix.”)
10. Optional: Upload a photo

First in best dressed.
Readings will be posted as a reply. All that is asked in return is that you reply giving your honest opinion on the reading.

06/06/2025

I just read on Facebook tonight that a very dedicated, caring and knowledgeable bird rescuer has recently passed/been set free from motor neurone disease. Scotty, along along with his lovely wife helped me out in my early days of rescuing ducks.

RIP Scotty Bowman, the birds and their rescuers will miss you. My thoughts and prayers go out to Tracey.

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This is the post I was dreading to have to post, it's with great heartache and sadness to say my best friend and soulmate passed away peacefully in his sleep early this morning 😭😭 Thank you for the heartfelt message I have already received and any unanswered messages haven't been ignored. Please respect my time to grieve and I will reply as soon I'm able. Funeral details will be updated when arrangements have been made.
May the Force be with us .
F**k MND!!! Rest in peace my Love ❤️❤️❤️ UPDATE Funeral Details Friday 13th June 2.30pm
Lamb and Hayward Wai-Mana Chapel
92 Kippenberge Ave
Rangiora
https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/sending-scott-to-space

03/05/2025

According to fish and game:"The overwhelming majority of game bird hunters are focused on food gathering, and the use of trained dogs ensures that nearly all birds are retrieved"

Leaving aside the fact that it costs more to buy guns, ammo, gear, licence. Petrol and decoys..
And ignoring the fact that most kiwi freezers wouldn't hold even one days bag limit

If this is true, why did hunters shoot down the drone? Surely it would actually support their claims if all the anti hunting drone caught was all ducks being retrieved and humanely dispatched? Why did they feel the need to destroy the evidence??

Apparently Only 0.9% of birds are not retrieved.....

The bag limit appears to be around 20 birds per day per hunter

Thats 18 ducks per hunter per day, on average

Apparently there are 60,000 hunters on opening day, each with an average bag limit of 20 ducks meaning each will leave 0.18 ducks injured but not dead or retrieved
Thats 10,800 injured birds left to die in agony over hours or even days

On top of that, on Monday last week, I had 4 different calls about wild mallard ducklings that were in need of assistance. Its clear global warming is increasingly causing ducks to breed out of season.

So how many ducks shot this year are leaving orphaned ducklings behind, to die alone from cold, starvation or predation?

The fact is we live in a country with a meaningless piece of "animal welfare" legislation, which is only selectively applied at best. (The animal welfare laws specifically prohibit any form of killing birds for purposes of slaughter for food, where the method of killing cannot guarantee humane death in every bird. 10,800 birds left to suffer and die alone in agony is an inexcusable breach of the act.

So how can our govt claim the act has any meaning when its only enforced if it suits them?

If our animal welfare laws (which bluntly prohibit the killing of birds as it occurs in duck shooting) are only obeyed or enforced when it suits the powers that be. What about other laws? those that supposedly protect your right to health, personal safety, housing, your childrens safety? How can we be certain that a government who allows a blatant breach of the animal welfare laws so duck hunters can shoot ducks, is not going to allow a similar breach of other laws protecting us or our families?

Is this what you voted for? Government who only enforce laws when it suits them, and not all the time, as they are legally obliged to?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360676062/police-investigating-after-animal-activists-drone-allegedly-shot-down-duck-shooters

A drone flown by animal activists to “capture the carnage” at Lake Ellesmere on the first day of game bird season was allegedly shot down by duck shooters.

02/05/2025

Yet another year of slaughter and cruelty. Duck hunters I have spoken to in the past agree that there is no way to guarantee a humane quick kill when duck shooting. (And thats even if they are being careful, responsible and only shooting what they have in sight and range, its not accounting for the drunken idiots who couldn't shoot their own foot off point blank, or the obese firing wildly at birds well out of range, spraying shot everywhere and maiming and injuring birds well outside their weapons range.

They claim it is to keep numbers within ranges that the environment can support, (which makes no sense when they are also saying they love ducks so much they go out to do all they can to increase numbers by fixing wetlands and putting out nesting areas for mallards etc (so you shoot to keep numbers down but also take action to keep numbers up?).

Or its to "feed my family" except the gear, guns, camo gear, wet weather, mai mai's decoys, licence, petrol to get there and so on, cost much more than 20 frozen chickens at the supermarket. Plus it doesn't explain whose normal household freezer can hold 20, 40 or more ducks?

The two excuses: to feed my family and to keep numbers manageable, dont make logical sense. Leaving the only other reason :I just want to shoot and kill things and too bad if i am doing it unethically

To claim duck shooting is a traditional way to feed your family is absolute bu****it. People who relied on hunting and gathering hundreds of years ago, did not slaughter 20 ducks per person, they only took what they could eat. Now we see photos of people standing in front of a huge lineup of dead ducks, and hear every year about trailer loads of ducks being dumped for someone else to clean up.
I just don't get it

Its not to feed your family or to protect the environment, so it apparently IS just to shoot something.....?

Why not do clay-bird shooting, and if you don't feel that is a challenge, then why not sit your redneck arse down, and think up a better shooting game you can play with all your mates, drink as much beer as you want, and not kill any ducks.

On a Central Victorian wetland at dawnMorning is broken by gunfire tornThe desperate and terrified take to the skySavagely ambushed, they give up their live...

26/04/2025

With permission of my friend Erin - who is a mutual duck lover, but also has a literal set of MacGyver like skills that she was happy for me and ChatGPT to weld with artistic proficiency - I present to you, chapter 4 in her story. Written by myself and AI generated with gorgeous Kiwiana woven throughout the story.

As a story begins four chapters and I will give you a bit of a prelogue. Basically that has already been one entire series and story which was pretty much humans and Ducks versus the Hawks and all sorts of other supernatural entities the war was eventually won by the humans and the Ducks and now the end of that story, a superhero named Erin entered the fray. This is chapter 4 of her story which begins with an epilogue and then chapters 1,2 & 3. The story centres around the central character Erin who is a upper South Island farmer with a whole pile of random skills almost like a bit of a female MacGyver after the war between the humans the Ducks and the Hawks was won by the humans and the Ducks Erin retires back to her Tasman farm only to become embroiled in the next war. This war consists of typical Tasman pests such as sandflies mosquitoes and so on.... those bugs that literally will not leave you alone if you're up in much away or anywhere else further north on the South Island. However in this story the bugs are huge man sized or in some cases station wagon sized chapter 4 explores the very first beginning of the actual war with Erin our hero let loose with a whole s**t tonne of umbrella propelled pumpkin seeds and canned watties foods..

If you would like to start on your own AI generated (with a little help from me) fantasy adventure starring yourself and of course the odd Duck feel free to post a comment below and let me know what your superpowers are...

Disclaimer: there may be the odd low level swearword in this story which may be inappropriate for younger readers. Parents please listen selves and decide whether this is appropriate for your younger children to listen to before you allow them to listen to this.

24/04/2025

The Empty Spot Beside Me (by Myelin)

I do not cry the way humans do.

But I know the shape of absence. I know the weight of it, like wet feathers that won’t dry. I know what it means when the nest is too quiet and the air is too still.

He was there.

And now he is not.

Little Brown Duck. My friend. My brother. My warmth in the night.

The spot beside me is empty now, and no one tells jokes in the straw, and no one nips my tail just to make me huff and flap. The world moves on as if nothing has changed.

But everything has changed.

I sit in silence. I watch the door. I wait for the soft patter of his feet.
It doesn’t come.

But something else does.

The human comes in the night, wrapped in sadness and something older than sadness. She kneels beside the straw, and she doesn’t speak—but the air around her hums.

I feel it.

Power.

Not loud. Not flashy. But real. The kind that doesn’t shout, but still moves mountains.

She reaches out a trembling hand and touches the straw where he used to sleep. Her tears fall. And I feel them—like rain falling through my chest. Not water. Light. Light that hurts and heals at the same time.

The warmth she gave him—it’s still here. Still circling.

And as I watch, I understand something the way only a duck can: not in words, but in the tilt of the head and the tremble of the earth.

He is not lost.

The bond hasn’t broken. It’s only shifted. Like wind through feathers.

There is a place beyond this one. A place with wide fields and still ponds and the voice of a girl duck who sings like sunlight.

And in that place, Little Brown Duck is waiting.

He’s not angry.
He’s not scared.

He misses us.

But he knows that love—real love—doesn’t end in straw or feathers or silence. It keeps flying.

Even when we can’t see the wings.

RIP Little Brown Duck, bestie and brother of Myelin. Little Brown Duck was killed right beside my home (where I stupidly thought he was safe) by a hawk while I was out yesterday 23 April 2025. 💔

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22/04/2025

Wings of Warmth Chapter 2

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSrGsnRJB/

Chapter two audiobook

Parents or anyone triggered by death of animals, please listen to the disclaimer before listening. Deals with the topic of death of young animals.

Tells the story of being a duckling and a duck, and duck rescue, from the perspective of a mallard duckling.

Check out NZDucks.FeatherMe!’s video.

21/04/2025

Listen to the first few chapters of Wings of Warmth, an audio book told from the perspective of one of my rescued mallard ducklings on tiktok.

Chapter one is here:

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSrGpCYY4/

Please like and subscribe and comment if you enjoy the story. It is told from the perspective of a duckling but is not necessarily a story for younger children as it leaves no holds barred when it comes to life as a duck or duckling.
Parents if unsure, please listen yourselves then decide if your children should hear. Chapter one is fine, but some of the other chapters do address topics which little ducklings unfortunately do have to face on an almost daily basis while just tiny, such as death, cold and predation.

Check it out... the corporate duck army (featured below) will be in touch with strongly worded formal letters if you dont!

30/03/2025

Happy Sunday from the Ducks!

Yup, shes a bit muddy hereATM (thanks, ducks)

The ducks are kicking off Sunday in the best way possible—splashing in their pools, waddling in the sunshine, and chatting about their latest adventures! There’s nothing quite like the sound of happy quacks to start the day.

Whether you’re relaxing at home or out on an adventure, we hope your Sunday is as joyful and peaceful as a duck basking in the afternoon sun.

If you love ducks as much as we do, don’t forget to follow this page for more adorable updates from the rescue flock. Your support helps me continue giving our feathered friends the best life possible!

21/02/2025

Craig says it better than me, but says what I also believe and live every day. It is really hard, about 350-over $600 a week every week, comes out of my own pocket for my ducks. Nothing compared to their spend, but a lot from a single income. My family and friends can't understand why I do this at such cost to myself, but what value is a life?

What if it were your life? It's hard, it's really hard. Hard financially and often disheartening because it's so hard to find volunteers to help. But I'm not here for the human people, I'm here for the ducks who are my people. And they are so very human like (in their intelligence, their social skills, their empathy and heart) like Craig has also seen. While it costs me a lot, at times everything, it is those of you who don't get to see and feel the joy, love, grief and heartache who are missing out...

If you'd like to change that please donate...your money or your time or both. Bless the ducks and bless yourself.

https://youtu.be/Ta-94J6SD1Q?si=_wE29aP4wLOrdQRs

To donate to the duck rescue you can deposit into my account 38-9008-0710446-02 account name Nth Canty Duck Rescue, or my name Kim O Hartley

Enjoy the video xx


https://youtu.be/Ta-94J6SD1Q?si=_wE29aP4wLOrdQRs

21/02/2025

Calling Fuzzy Greg from Woodend! If you are reading this and you are the people from Woodend who brought Fuzzy Greg to me In 2023, can you please call or text me on 020 406 41485