First things first, here's a couple of pictures of my ducklings two weeks ago. I'll get some recent ones as soon as my camera battery charges
the yellow one is a fawn/white runner, the gray one is a blue runner, and the black/yellow ones are black swedish
these are the two I got on wednesday another fawn/white runner and a white chinese gosling.
The gosling seems much stronger these last two days than she did before. The older girls still pick on her, but she's started putting her head down low and stretching it out. It makes them think about it. Also when they pick on her, she'll only move a little bit, unless they all get in on it (i.e there are peas, or she's in their favorite spot too long).
It's been warm enough that I've been able to keep them out most of the day. The 3 week olds spend most of their day in the kiddie pool. It feels like they have already outgrown it.
I've kept tabs on Wifezilla's pond thread with interest. It has been amazing watching her learn and share about her pond. It has actually given me the courage to go ahead and make my own pond. I talked a friend into helping yesterday for the price of a pizza and after 8 hours this is how far we'd gotten:
My cat, Hooli, thinks we dug all that just for him!
I've had the stone laying around for far longer than something should be hanging around a yard, so it was the perfect material for the deep end (I'm digging into a slope). Unfortunantly it didn't go as far as I had wanted it to so I think we're going to dig a bit deeper. I have enough stone for another one or two more rounds, but the pond liner will be on top of this here. After I started it, I wondered how to keep the ducks from going over the top of the deep end, so there's a plant shelf there where I will keep some bog or water platns in pots... I'm thinking about permantly attaching the pots to the liner to keep the ducks from knocking them over.
If you notice the foreground part of the pond it's on a gradual slope so there's easy in and out access.
I'll be making a skippy like filter in a lined wine barrel that's been up upside at the back of the property for I don't know how long. I was glad to read the latest update to the duckponix post since I was wondering about the pressure problem. I like that Wifezilla figured it out!
Anyway, that's all I have for now.
the yellow one is a fawn/white runner, the gray one is a blue runner, and the black/yellow ones are black swedish
these are the two I got on wednesday another fawn/white runner and a white chinese gosling.
The gosling seems much stronger these last two days than she did before. The older girls still pick on her, but she's started putting her head down low and stretching it out. It makes them think about it. Also when they pick on her, she'll only move a little bit, unless they all get in on it (i.e there are peas, or she's in their favorite spot too long).
It's been warm enough that I've been able to keep them out most of the day. The 3 week olds spend most of their day in the kiddie pool. It feels like they have already outgrown it.
I've kept tabs on Wifezilla's pond thread with interest. It has been amazing watching her learn and share about her pond. It has actually given me the courage to go ahead and make my own pond. I talked a friend into helping yesterday for the price of a pizza and after 8 hours this is how far we'd gotten:
My cat, Hooli, thinks we dug all that just for him!
I've had the stone laying around for far longer than something should be hanging around a yard, so it was the perfect material for the deep end (I'm digging into a slope). Unfortunantly it didn't go as far as I had wanted it to so I think we're going to dig a bit deeper. I have enough stone for another one or two more rounds, but the pond liner will be on top of this here. After I started it, I wondered how to keep the ducks from going over the top of the deep end, so there's a plant shelf there where I will keep some bog or water platns in pots... I'm thinking about permantly attaching the pots to the liner to keep the ducks from knocking them over.
If you notice the foreground part of the pond it's on a gradual slope so there's easy in and out access.
I'll be making a skippy like filter in a lined wine barrel that's been up upside at the back of the property for I don't know how long. I was glad to read the latest update to the duckponix post since I was wondering about the pressure problem. I like that Wifezilla figured it out!
Anyway, that's all I have for now.
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