‘People don’t think about rescuing ducks’
Joe Nutkins, 43, is a dog trainer from Essex
As a dog groomer, I’ve bathed my fair share of canines. But bathing a duck was a whole other story!
We got our six rescue ducks in January, when they were just two years old. They’d been kept as commercial laying birds but, at that tender age, were considered past their peak. Usually, farmers give local rescuers the opportunity to take the birds before they’re sent to slaughter.
We’d already rehomed rescue chickens and had a few
