People are making me so angry. So many people reporting lost ducks and chooks in the flood and nasty people are responding "who cares" "they are just ducks" etc. I would be devastated if my ducks went into the water. I think hubby would feel the same way about his chooks.
Unfortunately people had to leave farm animals behind here. We saw lots of cows floating down the river but there are posts that they are washing up alive. Hopefully all the ones I saw are ok.
We are ok. So thankful it didn't come into the house. Lots of hard work to do on fences when the water goes down not will delay our renovations again but that's life when you live on a river!
We have the river at the back of our property and it's about to go over. We are built up so won't get any structural damage to our house. The chooks are unhappy but the ducks think it's wonderful!
My girl, Primrose is not so tame. She is more placid than my drake, Olaf with the chooks but she doesn't like being handled at all. He will tolerate sitting down with him but my daughter tries to carry him and he hates it. Muscovies have very sharp claws so we discourage her from trying. I have...
Anniebee she sort of marches to her own drum. She will sleep everywhere but the roost. She is like that with me and the ducks but she gets pecked at by the other members of the flock.
We have a very annoying chook! She's the one my daughter carries everywhere, her name is Misty. It's had a hard life and it pecks all the other animals and us on occasion, but it has been giving my drake Olaf a particularly hard time, stealing his food and pecking him. He's such a placid boy...
Telia, that looks way better than hubby's make shift water buckets every where. I will show him. Was thinking of trying a bet for the pond overnight too.
QLD ladies, how do you keep toads out of the coop water? I'm so sick of fishinng them out of every water dish in the place. I dare say the ducks pond is what is initially attracting them but if they aren't in the pond, they are in the chook water trays.
I'm glad all your girls are safe. We got strong winds and rains yesterday but the ducks were happy with that. The chooks usually come camp out on our verandah and make a mess until it passes. We've had a huge week here with my daughter having difficulties at school. She was home yesterday so the...