Getting peacocks!

[NateinFL]

Yep. I put rosie reds into their kiddie pool for them, or toss them live on the grass. If they haven't seen them before they might be leery at first, but mine figured it out pretty quick.

Wow...I never would have guessed. Will try it out today thanks for the idea!

 

[Kedreeva]

If you've got a creek, they'll also eat string algae and crayfish. Mine LOVE duckweed. Tadpoles.

 

[zazouse]

forgot about the duck weed, all my birds eat it, i have one shallow pond and that is covered with it, my DH wanted me to dig the pond deeper but i told him the birds feed on that duck weed year round and if i dig it deeper it would die off, so i am digging a deeper pond next to it and have a drive threw between them.

 

[Kedreeva]

I added it to their kiddie pool, and it seems to do well there. I didn't know it dies off in deeper water, I thought it would just grow out as surface cover. It never survives my friend's koi pond long enough to see what would happen lol

 

[zazouse]

Well i have 2 deep ponds and a reservoir that runs the front of my property and there is no duck weed there nor has their ever been.
I did not put the duck weed in mine, it wash in with a flood we had just like the shrimp and minnows, it washed out of the pond with flood we had a few months ago and it grew back, i use to have cattails in part of the pond but my geese ate the roots over the winter, i read they are a survival food, but never tried them
these young guineas leggs are covered with duck weed, that is what happens when you raise them with geese.

 

[Kedreeva]

What the heck kind of Guineas are those? I haven't seen any that look like that!

 

[zazouse]

Baby pearls

 

[NateinFL]

Well i have 2 deep ponds and a reservoir that runs the front of my property and there is no duck weed there nor has their ever been.
I did not put the duck weed in mine, it wash in with a flood we had just like the shrimp and minnows, it washed out of the pond with flood we had a few months ago and it grew back, i use to have cattails in part of the pond but my geese ate the roots over the winter, i read they are a survival food, but never tried them
these young guineas leggs are covered with duck weed, that is what happens when you raise them with geese.

That one is really far out there! I guess it wouldn't be a good idea to use a duck to hatch out baby chickens either lol. How much rain a year do you get where you're at in Texas? Looks like a lot of the same plants we have here in FL.

 

[NateinFL]

Very impressed! I went down to the creek today and caught quite a few minnows. The babies immediately went into action fighting for them! Seems like they know what is best for themselves. They just could not get enough. Now they are sitting on my leg preening and making their happy sounds as I type this

. Probably due for some smelly poos later on but I'm sure they got some good nutrition out of the creek experience.

Thanks for the tip...I'm afraid I'm creating a monster out of these babies how spoiled they are!!!

 

[zazouse]

That one is really far out there! I guess it wouldn't be a good idea to use a duck to hatch out baby chickens either lol. How much rain a year do you get where you're at in Texas? Looks like a lot of the same plants we have here in FL.

Yea we have some of the same kind of weather you do and if we are not in a drought we can get rain a few times a month to a couple times a week.
I think it gets hotter here.
I know when i went to florida some years back we got rained on every day and then the sky cleared back up and the day was sunny again.
I have had ducks chickens and guineas nest together, they seem to know their own, those keets were hatched by me and raised with the geese i hatched , i sold off over 300 guineas this year but there are still some that hang out with the geese, it works out good, lots of eyes keeping watch, preditors don't have a chance.