Ducks “helping” with gardening

[Beaglegal]

The past couple days we've been doing our spring cleaning of our back yard. This time of year the weeds decide to all come at once. Our back yard is large and sectioned off by fences into the dog/kid side, the pool side, the RV and shed side and of course, the duck side.

We were working on the dog/kid area, pulling weeds around the play structure. Chuck and Buck were highly interested in what we were doing and we actually let them on that side for the first time ever. (We never let them be loose around our three huskies). They all got along (surprisingly) and next thing you know, Chuck and Buck were playing Goat..... eating all the weeds for us! Best $12 weed whackers ever. Unfortunately their input far exceeded their output and they got fat and lazy, sat down and took a nap.

Today I worked on the pool side. Of course that means the boys get to hang out in the pool. I used the real weed whacker and got a ton of weeds in our pool. Oops. Chuck and Buck came to the rescue and loved eating the weeds out of the pool. Best $12 pool sweeper ever

They behave better than my kids and they now officially do yard work better than my kids. Should have stuck with just ducks. Just kidding. Kinda.

How excited were they to be in a NEW area of the yard? I remember the first time my mob thought they were sneaking into our yard area for the first time when I left a gate open. There was this fast, loud exciting quacking that kept getting louder and faster and it gave them away. Not great at sneaking.... but hilarious

 

[Beaglegal]

Three days ago i was digging up another veggie bed close to the house. I'm planning to grow red cabbage for the ducks there. Of course they all wanted to help…

I can’t get the videos to play

 

[Texag87]

We have been here for five months and it was just last weekend that they decided to check out the whole middle fenced in section. Now if I let them out they have to check the whole place out unless the neighbors dog barks. Then it’s fly, run, trip, get up and go to the pen ASAP.

 

[Rooapalooza]

What little cuties. It is annoying though, right!? Half the time I try to work outside I have an audience of chickens and cats and dogs all wanting to know exactly what I'm doing. I have to try to distract them and then sneak back to whatever project I'm working on.

 

[Texag87]

My ducks are afraid of shovels and cultivators. If I ding an earthworm when digging I have to bring it to then

 

[Duckfarmer1]

Did you have your ducks last year at garden time? We have a very large garden and sell our veggies at our road side market stand. They got through our fencing. They ravaged the garden. It was awful! I put up streamers from amazon...I put up CDs...I put up an owl...nothing kept them out! We lost soooo many crops!! They ate through the deer fence. Yep..ate through it! Our garden is two acres. Plus we are planting another acre of just pumpkins, and 1/2 of sunflowers. We can’t put real fenc around that much area...we’re not sure what we’re going to do. I’m just telling you this as a warning. It’s adorable now...because there are no crops for them to ruin...but your garden is small enough to put chickens wire around it...do it!!

 

[Beaglegal]

Did you have your ducks last year at garden time? We have a very large garden and sell our veggies at our road side market stand. They got through our fencing. They ravaged the garden. It was awful! I put up streamers from amazon...I put up CDs...I put up an owl...nothing kept them out! We lost soooo many crops!! They ate through the deer fence. Yep..ate through it! Our garden is two acres. Plus we are planting another acre of just pumpkins, and 1/2 of sunflowers. We can’t put real fenc around that much area...we’re not sure what we’re going to do. I’m just telling you this as a warning. It’s adorable now...because there are no crops for them to ruin...but your garden is small enough to put chickens wire around it...do it!!

If we had to, we could lock them out. They actually are getting locked out after this weekend when the onion sets go in. Luckily they have left our garlic we planted in the fall, alone.

 

[DuckyDonna]

Did you have your ducks last year at garden time? We have a very large garden and sell our veggies at our road side market stand. They got through our fencing. They ravaged the garden. It was awful! I put up streamers from amazon...I put up CDs...I put up an owl...nothing kept them out! We lost soooo many crops!! They ate through the deer fence. Yep..ate through it! Our garden is two acres. Plus we are planting another acre of just pumpkins, and 1/2 of sunflowers. We can’t put real fenc around that much area...we’re not sure what we’re going to do. I’m just telling you this as a warning. It’s adorable now...because there are no crops for them to ruin...but your garden is small enough to put chickens wire around it...do it!!

Yup! I got ducks because I thought they'd be such a great help in my garden which is nowhere near as big as yours. They were a disaster in it like you said.

 

[Beaglegal]

Yup! I got ducks because I thought they'd be such a great help in my garden which is nowhere near as big as yours. They were a disaster in it like you said.

Mine do keep the slug populations down. The areas where my ducks are allowed have nary a slug

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I can’t get the videos to play ☹

That must be something with your internet connection! Were you able to see the videos by now?