Ducks On The Moon

[jtn42248]

Thought I would start a thread where we all can share (honestly) our little webbed footed friends play grounds. As much fun as they are, as much pleasure as they give, they can be a bit messy and will, given the opportunity, turn their yards into the equivalent of a lunar landscape...thus the title of this thread...DUCKS ON THE MOON.

These are some of my Cayugas. Believe it or not their water was clean just a couple of hours ago. The immediately begin to rut for grubs as soon as any water splashed out of their pools. No matter how many time I fill the holes the next day they are back again.

Put on your gravity boots and take a look...


And no, I would not trade them for anything in the world.

 

[Debs Flock]

LOL...wow, they sure can make some holes! My four do most of their drilling under the coop so I don't have a good view of it. Other than that, they have holes around the water bucket.

 

[sourland]

Way back when there was a small ditch/creek at the bottom of our property. Being a kid with loads of time on my hand I made a terraced series of small pools along the length of the property. Picture ducks being let out in the morning and racing to their playground, diving in and scarfing up mosquito egg cases from the top of the water, diving over a dam into the next pool all the way pool by pool up to the top pool and then repeating the process all the way down to the lower pool. In some ways I was a very lucky kid.

 

[jtn42248]

LOL...wow, they sure can make some holes! My four do most of their drilling under the coop so I don't have a good view of it. Other than that, they have holes around the water bucket.

You should see the ones that, when I go to fill them up again with dirt, I discover an egg at the bottom. Laid I am sure with the hope that I will not discover it.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Debs Flock since you can't see what your ducks are doing under their house you may go out one day and find they have created a large sink hole,
and here I have been blaming the chickens for making the property look like the Lunar landscape and all the time the ducks have been getting in on the act.

@sourland it sounds like you were a very lucky kid having such great entertainment

 

[jtn42248]

Debs Flock since you can't see what your ducks are doing under their house you may go out one day and find they have created a large sink hole,
and here I have been blaming the chickens for making the property look like the Lunar landscape and all the time the ducks have been getting in on the act.

@sourland it sounds like you were a very lucky kid having such great entertainment

The holes under Debs Flock's coop would be the dark side of the moon.

Chickens don't do lunar. The specialize in desert wastelands and do it very well.

 

[Miss Lydia]

The holes under Debs Flock's coop would be the dark side of the moon.

Chickens don't do lunar. The specialize in desert wastelands and do it very well.

LOL
Some of mine have dust bathing areas that look pretty lunar but I agree a piece of property that was all green before chickens looks just like a desert wasteland before the year is up after getting chickens. Southern Living will never come here for a photo shoot.

 

[Amykins]

Did someone say MOON DUCKS? (I've been dying for an opportunity to show this)

https://vimeo.com/channels/stuffnsuch/69104660

 

[jtn42248]

I always thought that Ducks might not be from this planet.

 

[JadeComputerGal]

Thought I would start a thread where we all can share (honestly) our little webbed footed friends play grounds. As much fun as they are, as much pleasure as they give, they can be a bit messy and will, given the opportunity, turn their yards into the equivalent of a lunar landscape...thus the title of this thread...DUCKS ON THE MOON.

These are some of my Cayugas. Believe it or not their water was clean just a couple of hours ago. The immediately begin to rut for grubs as soon as any water splashed out of their pools. No matter how many time I fill the holes the next day they are back again.

Put on your gravity boots and take a look...


And no, I would not trade them for anything in the world.

Right there with you, Jon. We have a kiddie pool that looks exactly like that down toward our deck, and the spillage from it creates an ideal grubbing opportunity. We don't have the same ruts you have from the drilling, but we only keep Call ducks. The drill marks aren't as noticeable with them.

With you on the, "I swear it was just clean!" thing as well. Ours don't use the kiddie pool extensively since they prefer the three ponds, probably because they're deeper, but they do still use it. It can be cleaned, refilled, used for an hour, and then I'm afraid to take a pic with the kiddie pool in it because it looks like it hasn't been cleaned in a week. LOL.

And also, like you, I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world.