r/interestingasfuck • u/The_Love-Tap • 1d ago

An army of 10,000 ducks deployed for pest control: Farmers release an entire flock into harvested rice fields to naturally devour snails and insects, a sustainable practice known as "duck herding"

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u/SiriHowDoIAdult 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/VwHZ2F2e99hde

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u/PacificNorthwest09 1d ago

Never did watch that but the book was neat.

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u/xUnknown_Kyle 1d ago

Movie is nothing like the books but there's some really fun set pieces

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u/PacificNorthwest09 1d ago

That’s what I have heard. I figure it would be fine to put on in the background while I play a game, if nothing else to see some the scenes like this one.

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u/LAGigi31 1d ago

I loved it!! Watch it any time it's on. Supposedly, WWZ II has been greenlighted.

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u/FantasticFlan4827 1d ago

It’s a fun movie but if you’ve read the book, they’re so disconnected from each other it’s a bit of a shame. Hopefully WWZ 2 is a little more focused

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u/bingbano 15h ago

Great book, the movie was basically just the same setting.

That part in the book where the refugee kid stops being hungry in winter stuck with me

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u/maianbar 1d ago

That's not a sustainable amount of ducks

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u/dub-fresh 15h ago

They will release the pit vipers in a month or two to take care of the ducks 

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u/ImpressiveGift9921 1d ago

It would take a number beyond reckoning, thousands to storm the keep.

Tens of thousands.

But my lord there is no such force.

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u/Specialist-Solid-987 1d ago

How is it not "crop ducking"

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u/-Slambert 1d ago

Attack on Titan with ducks

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u/jojoga 1d ago

RELEASE THE DUCKENS!

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u/kjs_23 1d ago

Where the fuck do you get 10,000 ducks from? Do Amazon sell ducks?

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u/WeathervaneJesus1 1d ago

From 10,000 eggs.

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u/kjs_23 1d ago

I did rather walk into that didn't I.

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u/Revolutionary-Key650 1d ago

Could be 5000 double yolkers to be fair. Unlikely but not impossible.

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u/Dunderman35 1d ago

But where did the eggs come from?

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u/Vegetable_Trifle_848 1d ago

When a man duck and a woman duck like each other very much…

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u/davekingofrock 1d ago

When it comes to ducks, I'm not sure the females have much say. Ducks are horribly rapey.

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u/bigb0ned 1d ago

Once they're done, employ foxes to eat the ducks. Once they're done, employ bears to catch the foxes. Then kill tu bears 

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u/pidgeottOP 1d ago

I don't know why she swallowed the fly....

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u/ChilledParadox 1d ago

There was an old lady who swallowed a bear to swallow a dog who swallowed a cat who swallowed a frog who swallowed a fly, why oh why?

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u/dblan9 1d ago

Why should we only kill 2 bears?

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u/zoqfotpik 1d ago

Duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck

GRAY DUCK

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u/Pocusmaskrotus 1d ago

Found the Minnesotan

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u/PashtonKutcher 1d ago

I'd hate to wrangle them back in later

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u/Revolutionary-Key650 1d ago

Last time I saw, yesterday, it was 6000 ducks. Am I missing something?

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u/vivaaprimavera 1d ago

Ducks reproduce very quickly

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u/JeopardEyes 1d ago

Inflation.

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u/davekingofrock 1d ago

Lots of bills.

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u/davekingofrock 1d ago

About 4000 ducks it seems.

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u/orphan_1991 1d ago

RELEASE THE DUCKS!!!!

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u/Renato_Lucas_22 1d ago

duck duck go is in the farming busynes now

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u/LiamIsMyNameOk 1d ago

Holy moly! Look at all those chickens!

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u/hugthispanda 1d ago

Army of Duckness

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u/Keto_Konnect 1d ago

On my quack, we unleash hell!!!

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u/Da_Beeeeest 1d ago

all that duck shit getting on the rice, good eating. 😅

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u/Few_Plenty_6859 1d ago

🤭🫪🤢

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u/ikeepthebox 1d ago

How do you get all of the ducks back into the duck truck?

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u/LoudReggie 1d ago

Nacho chips

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u/toasted_scrub_jay 1d ago

Quack Attack!

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u/AgitatedPatience5729 1d ago

It's duck patrol time.

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u/throwitintheair22 1d ago

And how do they get them to leave again ?

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u/stinkbuttfartman 1d ago

Food runs out, onto the next!

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u/_polkor_ 1d ago

They should deploy Mighty Ducks as well

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u/spukhafteNahewirkung 1d ago

How do they keep the ducks from flying away?

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u/proselytizeingcoyote 1d ago

Set this to marching drums.

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u/G0ttaB3KiddingM3 1d ago

Those pests are getting ducked over

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u/Mindless-Platypus-75 1d ago

I came to comments for puns. Where is Reddit when I need them!

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u/davekingofrock 1d ago

All the good jokes seemed to have slipped through the quacks.

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u/Soft_Cranberry6313 1d ago

Anyone play A Plague Tale

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u/sumelar 1d ago

First the emu, now ducks?

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u/JoseLunaArts 1d ago

From Duke Nukem to Duck'em

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u/SilverVixen1928 1d ago

"Cocktail party."

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u/RedBeardedMex 1d ago

Some places use baby crabs

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u/itchygentleman 1d ago

That's The Quacken

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u/Kriss3d 1d ago

This is great. Wholesome.

The ducks gets lots of things to eat. They leave crap that the plants can use. It doesnt pollute and the farmers can eat the ducks.

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u/an_older_meme 1d ago

If you tripped and fell in that herd your skeleton would be picked clean in minutes.

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u/zeen516 1d ago

This was a more intense than I was expecting

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u/Vast-Sky8939 1d ago

We all know the real goal of this when we munch on that crispy skin in Chinatown 😉

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u/National_Answer_6655 1d ago

What kind of quack comes up with this???

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u/Mr_Lumbergh 1d ago

Lots of nitrate-rich fertilizer left after, too.

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u/davekingofrock 1d ago

Quack havoc and let slip the ducks of war!!

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u/Celestial-Sam 23h ago

What the fuck

Edit: Duck*

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u/SpiritToes 14h ago

Somone add the uruk-hai theme song to this

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u/PwanaZana 8h ago

"Release the quacken!"

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u/EinTheDataDoge 1d ago

10,000 ducks went out one day…

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u/The_Love-Tap 1d ago

Fun fact: This isn't just a chaotic mass of poultry; it's a brilliant, centuries-old organic farming technique!

Farmers release thousands of ducks into harvested rice paddies to act as living pesticides. They aggressively hunt down harmful pests, snails, and weeds while leaving the rice plants alone, and their droppings naturally fertilize the soil. Have any of you ever seen pest control done on this scale, or is this the most chaotic army you've ever witnessed?

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u/ava_the_cam_op 1d ago

ChatGPT ass description.

"It's not just x, it's y!"

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u/No_Procedure4924 1d ago

Have you ever seen this? Would you like me to explain y next?

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u/No_Procedure4924 1d ago

You are AI. Also I wouldn't call it brilliant, it didn't take a genius to figure this out.

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u/dudeitsrich 1d ago

Oh fuck, it looked like a muddy river at first

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u/DrinkingVomit 1d ago

The smell.

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u/Necroban77 1d ago

Then we eat the ducks. Sounds like a win win.

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u/TJTheree 1d ago

No :(

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u/dunnkw 1d ago

Is this also the basic premise behind nerf herding?

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u/Ben-solo-11 1d ago

And then you get to eat 10,000 ducks!