Grass help

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Hi All, this is our current set up. Before we had 2 more ducks, making 4 the garden looked like this (see photos attached)

As you can see still lots of patches, particularly near the swimming pool where it gets tipped out twice weekly.

Here is a photo from today (we did have heavy rainfall last week and it turned the garden into a swamp) as you can see since having the new two ducks in just over a month their is quite a big reduction in grass. Any advice?
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Wish I could help but Other than fencing off sections letting the grass get going good then opening it up and fencing off another seems that would just be a vicious circle though. @DuckyDonna was doing that in her large run. Chickens took care of any vegetation growing here.
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I agree with above, and that's what I do. I divided my 30x30 aviary into two - a front yard and a backyard. When the front yard grass gets thin the ducks live in the backyard and I reseed the front yard while the ducks live in the backyard. The seed package says that grass grows best in cooler weather so I try to time it to the spring and fall.

I also throw used water from buckets out of their aviary, and pipe out their pool water, too. Some noodling is unavoidable but it helps a lot.
 
I agree with above, and that's what I do. I divided my 30x30 aviary into two - a front yard and a backyard. When the front yard grass gets thin the ducks live in the backyard and I reseed the front yard while the ducks live in the backyard. The seed package says that grass grows best in cooler weather so I try to time it to the spring and fall.

I also throw used water from buckets out of their aviary, and pipe out their pool water, too. Some noodling is unavoidable but it helps a lot.
This is helpful thank you! Ive started draining their two pools overnight with leaving the hose in the pool and the other end down the drain which I think is going to help massively particularly in the wet months!
 
Annual rye grows super fast, but perennial rye is tougher, and waterfowl like both. Zoysia grass tends to be disliked by waterfowl, even Canadian geese don't like it.
 
I just remembered, we also put gutters up to pipe away all the rain from the barn roof. Before all the rain from the barn came down in a sheet and made a big bald patch in the grass. (The ducks loved it.) The gutters help, too.
 

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