Although the horse-sized duck would have the height and power advantage,if the 100 duck-sized horses were well organised and used shrewd strategy to distract and confuse their opponent they could deliver fearful hoof powered kicks to the giant duck's soft underbelly. Herein lies the horse sized duck's weakness.

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The horse sized duck would win. It could flap its huge wings to cause confusion and break up any potentially lethal synchronised mini horse attacks. its huge thick skinned webbed feet would not only squash multiple horses, but would also be immune to bites. With its big beak it could scoop up and swallow mini horses whole. Therefore it would just be a matter of time before the duck won through.
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Fascinating idea thsi is:lol: I haven't come up with my answer yet, I do agree with yoru analysis though. My concern with the horse sized duck is that it coudl get it's wings broken maybe by the others. Imagine a horse with 100 ducks all over it to give you the scale. And liek you say these littel buggers have hooves. Then again horses aren't very aggressive and tend to run off so :shrug: Ducks can reralyl go for it, and their beaks are quite nasty.

The horse sized duck would more than likely stomp all over the duck sized horse because they would not have the brain power to get together any strategy whatsoever unless they had brains with the intellect of human beings (and they dont because they are duck sized horses). And if they weren't stomped on they would run away as quick as possible because they would be scared.

Erm- the horse sized duck would win because it had the advantage that it could fly ? :shrug: (assuming it was able to take off )

Yeah, I doubt the duck would be able to fly, but the duck would still win-no doubt about it, but i think a lot of horses would get away, they'ld be pretty damn fast-even if they were small.
Imagine if that duck could fly-birds defecate on the wing don't they?

Exactly, it could do bombing raids on the horses :P Plus it could land on them and squash them by the dozen B)
If it could fly, it would have a definite advantage .
Plus how strong would a horse as small as a duck be? Would they be able to inflict much damage on such a large and well-cushioned object as a horse-sized duck? :shrug:

The carnage would be horrendous, a blood bath-those poor horses.
And you're right the duck would be well cushioned, in fact an army of those ducks could take over the world-we'ld end up being their slaves :unsure:

As well as all that , they arent a bit afraid of water ;)

I think Id rather face DJ with her chainsaw than a giant duck :P

:lmaao:

got to be the horse sized duck - having been at the receiving end of vicious attacks ;) from normal sized geese and swans, I can imagine that once threatened, this duck would be using it's beak to devestating effect.

Plus - surely if feeling under attack, it would do that rearing up, wing waving thing. Which is pretty scary in regular sized ducks, and thus would have the mini horses bolting for the hills...

Looks like the Duck wins then ! :ok:

I'll go for the duck, even though it mugged me last week :rolleyes: roflmao

that would be a great chat-up line...

"hi, i'm dinky Jo - i'm less scary than i giant duck" :P

:lmaao: Cant wait to see Suzis interpretation of that ...

On dry land the duck-size horses are my bet. A horse-sized duck would be way too cumbersome - just imagine all those little horses stamping on it's webbed feet.

In water or in the air there's only one winner.

I would say we can find the solution of this in our sport. It does not matter how many times one can bring the ball back, if one hasn't got big enough weapons, one loses.

The sized horse duck all the way.

:coffee:

the duck-sized horses mount an attack to pluck the feathers from the horse-sized duck...

the horse-sized duck lets out an almighty Quaaaack but to no avail, the little blighters have plucked out all its belly feathers and it sinks....*




* the dsh's were standing on each other's shoulders, using reeds to breathe through and taking it in turns to pluck the feathers out. Sure it took coordination but they'd been watching Riverdance ;)

You are mad a as hatter! :lol:

The B8stard! roflmao

That's one lesson your mum should have taught you dl - and I cannot stress this enough - never go out without protection after dark to buy a takeaway or shopping cos these anti social horse sized ducks are taking over the retail areas and mugging innocent unsuspecting customers at will! What is society coming to these days :lol:

:rolleyes: but a quite sane mad-hatter who has eaten his Weetabix and remembered to brush his teeth afterwards*

*a good tip for dsh who find they have feathers stuck in their teeth :ok:

Good point! :lol:

I must say havign studied ducks for years and having sone knowledge of horses I find this tricky. I keep havign visions of the duc sized horsed winning, but then I remember Crispy and Arrow (my two regular garden ducks named after Crisp Aromatic duck) beign rathe rviscious once they got going. I've also seen some bloody nasty horses (well they hate me anyway and I've never got on with the things) so it's a toughie still in my mind.

The only way to settle this once and for all is to invite the horse sized duck and the 100 duck sized horses down to Wimbledon Common adn se ewho wins.

No wonder you are always at that drinks trolley cos you are spitting feathers!

I'd cut down on the Horse Sized Duck population by inviting all my friends and all of their friends to a chinese restaurant where we'd feast on horse-sized crispy duck :ok:

moi? Spitting feathers? Eider have better things to do ;)

I'd be there, sounds delicious! :lol:

But we'd need horse-sized-duck sized pancakes and a bucket of hoi sin sauce. I hope they will accomodate :D

noooooo, just lots and lots of normal sized ones

god! I'm reallly hungry for some crispy duck now - something else they don't seem to have cottoned on to in Germany :(

Yeah like drinking to avoid this situation! :lol: I saw a sparrowhark in the garden Saturday, it was literally spitting feathers! :lol: Those of a collared dove from what we could distinguish. I think it had a very good meal.

why does the title of this thread remind me of 'I was sailing down a river in a rough cut punt' ?

I won't answer that :lol:

But what i will say is I've decided that the horse sized duck is not as strong as it appears, having made careful observations of horses and ducks this weekend I reckon it is quite vulnerable. But also that ducks are harder b*stards so I'm still stuck :lol:

but the horse-sized duck only has 2 feet to squish the duck-sized horses with; and if 30 dsh stand on each foot, then the other 40 could run up and down its back and take turns to kick it in the head...

that could make it a bit giddy

Absolutely brilliant analysis from our resident professor and expert on all maters relating to mutations fo the horse and duck species. :lol:

of course I'd have to conduct evil anatidaen and equine genetic experiments first..

Hand me the monkey wrench would you....

bwuhahahahahahaha

:yikes: The way things are going they will be breeding them soon anyway!
Then when there is a problem with horse sized ducks shitting all over our buildings they will be putting up signs saying 'do not feed the duck sized horses' and fining folsk who do :lol:

and just think of the size of spikes they'd need on the windowsills to stop them perching...

oh wait..

I'm thinking of Horse-sized Pigeons

:whistle:

Sure it wasn't horse sized seagulls? Now thatwould eb scary!