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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 during breeding season. I have chicken wire that I'm putting on the lower part of the pipe rail fencing to the back, some panels that will enclose them on the south side and there is privacy fence and some panels they can't get through on the north. They will have about a half acre with a pond so I hope that suits them this spring. This will also allow me to monitor them better and be able to catch the cygnets for banding, blood type for DNA to sex them and to pinion them. Once they're large enough, we'll let them all out to the big pond at the edge of the yard. We have no turtles in the small pond, turtles are death to young cygnets. Last year, a neighbor had all the cygnets taken one by one on his large pond as did the pair at the city park in Bolivar.....their pond is teaming with turtles and I plan to try to work a deal out with them if their swans set another batch and I think they will. If I can buy them as soon as they hatch, they might have a chance here.
I'll post updates as I prepare for them to "hopefully" nest and everything after that.