Like a duck to water.....?!?

[dpenning]

I still don’t know which one is SF Jr. I’m waiting for a drake curl.

Congrats! Go Street go...to the water!!

 

[dpenning]

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Floating coop! I so want a pond just so I can make a floating coop!

i have an extra big rectangular float they put under our floating dock. I want to turn it into a floating shelter and feed station.

 

[dpenning]

Thanks Miss Lydia!

What a beautiful pond. Congrats!

 

[dpenning]

Beautiful and how lucky they are to have such a great place to be ducks Is there an island out there or a safe place for them from over night predator's?

There is but it is a long way from their current pen. Right now they go back to their pen at night and I close the door.

 

[dpenning]

Well, I had to move their house down to the pond but they definitely found the water! They had been staying in their little corner of the pond but today they ventured out!

 

[Miss Lydia]

That’s awesome any way you can put up some kind of shelters so if a flying predator was near they could get up under?

 

[dpenning]

That’s awesome any way you can put up some kind of shelters so if a flying predator was near they could get up under?

The hawks around here are red tails and are not going to go after a bird this size I wouldn’t think. I’ve only seen eagles fly by twice.

That being said, they stick pretty close to their house most of the time that is under some large pecan trees? Or they can go under the dock or the small clump of trees.

 

[DuckyDonna]

don't be so sure!

 

[dpenning]

don't be so sure!

The other side of the equation is that they will not go into their house at night.... i cannot corral them at all. They are pretty much on their own. I've been trying to feed them in their house but that is mixed good vs bad... good if I could lure them in and close the door at night because that is where they have weather protection.... but bad news if they are in there and a predator gets them cornered.... They seem to spend their nights on the pond bank so if anything comes up they can get into the water.

I'm going to keep working on getting them to trust me enough to go where I want them, until then it is just fingers crossed.

Edit to add, owls would be the only concern that could get them if they are on the water... and the owls are big enough.

 

[DuckyDonna]

Well, idk. I lock mine up in their predator proof pen at dusk every single night. I made the mistake of thinking that "surely as big as my ducks are nothing can carry them off". I didn't take into consideration that a predator from above can swoop down, kill them and eat them right on the spot. See the white duck in my avatar? That's Daisy my beautiful love duck that was killed in just that manner at 3:00 in the afternoon!