Heartbroken duck - any suggestions would be appreciated.

Hey yall,

I recently bought a bonded pair of Saxonys. They were a very happy little pair - Daphne and Mr. Fitzgerald, but Mr. Fitz got taken by a Coyote about 3 weeks ago. And we think Daphne is just now getting the picture that he's not coming back.

She is very depressed - for context these pictures were taken at feeding time when all the other ducks are flapping and quacking their way back to the coop. She just wanted to sit in the puddle and feel sad. We put her in her own crate in the coop and gave her some of her own grain, but come morning she hadn't touched it. So we brought her inside to hang out in the tub / bathroom and eat chickpeas. At first we syringed some grain-mush into her mouth to get her to eat, and now she will eat some of the chickpeas - but she is overall still very sad and does not want to play in the pool with the other ducks.

Has anybody dealt with this before and has suggestions? I heard swans mate for life, but do ducks? I am thinking about getting her a new arranged husband tomorrow cause we only had 1 drake in our small little flock - Mr. Fitz was our first male.

Any help yall can provide would be appreciated. I have never felt so bad for a duck before - it's very sad.

Awww, bless her poor, sweet, broken heart... I'm hoping time will be all it takes. We lost one of our 2 ducks - the one we called Zha-Zha, because like Ms. Gabor, she always had the entourage of drakes tagging along. Those drakes are now tagging along behind Molly, which is making both Molly and her Beau very uncomfortable. But, the boys are so lost without Zha-Zha, they don't know what to do with themselves. Maybe someone will have words of wisdom for both of us!