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I've fed Barry and Rachel all winter (and before) fermented corn and barley, game bird feed. They eat greens in the pond and I've fed them fodder (barley fodder). Is there anything else or different I should be feeding to condition them? I've even put out layer pellets for the calcium but...

We've killed a couple of younger turtles in the large pond but I've never seen one come into the yard and get in the smaller pond. I can't imagine one would get past my dogs, they're very protective. The smaller pond needs rain to fill it up right now. I will fill it from the well if the...

Hoping they are bonded now that they have been together almost a year. We're enclosing the back yard for them, the pond in the pictures above is in the back yard. They made a jaunt to the neighbors pond this fall and stayed about a month then returned home so I don't want them to wander...

Here is Barry in the small pond in my back yard, taken just a few days ago. I actually think he was getting to be too much of a pet. He was right there under me all the time when I was outside. He would sit outside of the shed where I brood my chicks and even banged on the door with his bill...

Update, Matilda died suddenly. I was horrified, nothing had harmed her, it was as though she just laid on the bank and went to sleep. She had done fine this winter, coming with Barry to the yard when I did chores to be fed then returning to the big pond. I have no idea what happened. I was...

Here are my love birds. er swans...............lol Barry and Matilda Barry Matilda

They start breeding here in Feb I've heard. I think it depends on locations. I don't have any cattails in any of my ponds, my llama's ate them all to death but I have bamboo to cut in pieces and make the base. I figured to put all sorts of brushy stuff within a decent area so they don't have...

Thank you for sharing that. I found some interesting nesting ideas that are meant for Trumpeters. I wonder if it would work the same? In my case though, it's also going to be important to be able to get to the cygnets to have them pinioned I may try this plan to be able to pull the next...

I am not a breeder of swans. In fact, my "pair" is a DNA sexed male Mute and a DNA sexed female Australian Black swan. I simply wanted my swan, Barry, to have a mate. He just seemed lonesome and sad since I got him a year after losing his mate. I couldn't locate a female of the same breed and...