I meant to post this door picture in my thread, but at the time, I just posted it in a different thread for KansasKid and figured it was too soon to crosspost it.
Also, it was somewhere between 29- 32 degrees 2 days ago (below freezing for the first time his year) and i didn't even realize it.
It had just rained the night before from the cold front pushing through and i put my tarp on top of the aviary. The water froze over night and was still frozen in the morning when i took it off.
The ducks slept in the pond and it didn't freeze apparently. (even at freezing or just below, it seems to rarely freeze water here)
I checked the weather for the next day (yesterday) and it was going to be even colder, in the lower 20s, so i went ahead and looked up on here and a few people recommended that the ponds be covered, if possible.
Naturally, my 2 ducks love to sleep in the pond and i was afraid they would get stuck in there over night.
I went out and use 2 painted boards that i normally have propped up outside the aviary as a windbreak for them and put both to cover the pond. I put an old sheet over the boards and then put several of my large smooth pineapple sized rocks around the boards and to keep the sheet on top of the boards. Then i also put in a plastic cat litter tub (which i use for carrying the pine needles into the aviary to avoid a mess) into the the aviary and filled it up with pine needles.
They normally don't seem to nest or lay down in the corner where i usually have some pine straw, but they were genuinely curious of the tub and were hopping in and rooting around in the tub. I took the boards off at lunch time, because the freeze is over and it should be in the 40s-50s the rest of the week. They immediately dove into the 45 degree water. I meant to take a few pictures, but i just kept forgetting, mostly because it was pretty cold and my hands were numb from cleaning their pond out earlier that day.
I'll try to take some pics of it next time it freezes.
