Geese & Duck People UNITE

[maus]

I have a Pekin drake and a Pekin duck

Ducks are just so cute and happy all the time. I love having them around my little farm.

 

[JaciesCoop]

I'm not sure I really qualify for this thread as we just have the one goose. Maybe some of you have read the threads about our "Christmas" who adopted us (see below and it includes a short video) but I feel like a goose person because of her.

We just love her and plan to have more. Hopefully from her.
We have fallen in love with Christmas. Especially my hubby. When he's out working around our place she follows him everywhere and sits down and watches him work, with a few suggestions on how to do the work every now and then.

Jacie

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=27297

 

[pips&peeps]

We have 10 choc runners, 5 blue runners, and 6 sebastopols.

Jean

 

[picklespickles]

one duck, my sweetie. two geese.

their mudhole is at three feet deep in the center and about one feet around the edges.

maybe one day it will be a pond. or maybe it will always be their mudhole. regardless, they seem happy with it.

 

[Sherriekim]

Pickles, you're awesome, nothing bothers you. Mudhole, pond, ehh, who cares? If the birds are happy, good enough.

BTW, thanks alot, people! Now, thanks to all your pictures, I really want a duck. Like I got time to put in another pen this spring, let a lone one with a mudhole pond.

 

[jmhappycowboy]

I have ducks.

2. Trios of Grey Call Ducks
1. Trio of Black East Indies

 

[picklespickles]

sherriekim, thanks.

there is just so much to do in life that i just figure well hey as long as i'm trying............. and i'm not sure they really know the difference between a pretty pond and a funky mudhole. plus, once it's a nice pond, then i'll just have to be mad at them for mucking it up all the time. caus you know they will.

 

[Dodgegal79]

LOL, Pickles your mudhole is funny. Mine found a pond in my backyard that I didn't know was there. The tree covered a ditch and it is blocked so it forms a pond. It has clean flowing water too so it is great. I too have a mudhole thou, its my whole backyard. About 1/2 and acre. They went around when it was wet (it rains here lots) and went and "dug" for worms with their beaks. You can walk around and see little holes, people always ask me what the holes are from, I say the ducks, then I get very strange looks. I have to explain how they do it, and you can always tell who the guilty one is, they always have mud up to their eye balls.

 

[greyfields]

Alright, I thought I'd post this becasue it reminds me that all this mud I'm up to my ankles in will eventually go away. Really, it will!

This was last Spring out in the center pasture. I have portable electric up around the geese & goslings that I let incubate their babies. I was keeping them separated from the main flock of Embdens (brought in as day olds) because the goslings were still pretty small. The geese outside want to find the way in (as it looks like the ducks had) to get at the feeder.

I'm hatching only incubated eggs from now on, and the three flocks have pretty much merged... so I don't think the gosling management will be nearly as fussy this year as last.

What a gorgeous day that was. Looks like it was just about time to cut the hay.

 

[picklespickles]