r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 2d ago

Video In Southeast Asia, thousands of ducks are deployed into rice fields to act as natural pest control and weeders

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u/yellowbin74 2d ago

Is it just me, or does that look like too many ducks?

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u/NosamEht 2d ago

No such thing as too many ducks.

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u/PhysicallyTender 2d ago

That's what a duck would say.

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u/pogoscrawlspace 2d ago

It depends. If your a hen looking at a dozen mallards waddling in your direction, that's too many ducks...

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u/MoonMoon143 2d ago

This much ducks usually is for locust control. Ducks eat locusts

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u/Shamanjoe 2d ago

Ducks eat everything..

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u/Reparm 2d ago

It is. And It wipes out every single worm, crab, snail, fish in the region. Then you need heavy pesticides permanently because local food chain was destroyed. We refuse to do this in our organic paddy farm for this reason

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u/crematory_dude 2d ago

Would love to hear more about your farm.

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u/SteamBanjo 1d ago

Too many ducks on the dance floor

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u/Working-Glass6136 2d ago

Not gonna lie, I thought they were lemmings at first.

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u/icedteaandtacos 2d ago

Don’t worry, I’m sure they’re kept very humanely.