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[Miss Lydia]

Thank you kindly! Have a great weekend.

Thank you an you too. Love your avatar.

 

[Building Bridges]

Thank you an you too. Love your avatar.

Thank you so much!! Those are my border collies...."Cheer" 7 year old female front and "Gauge" 2 year old male in background. They have the same mother...and they are my pride and joy!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Thanks! I love this site pics coming. It’s strange they used to be in every day and ate and destroyed the plants we put in now they never go in . They are in a tiny gardening bucket .

Is this a in ground pond? spring fed? stagnant what does than mean?

 

[johntfs]

Hi, we started keeping 4 brown hens which sadly got eaten. We now have a belt and braces outside run for 5 runner ducks and 4 different types of hen.
we reared the duck chicks from one day old in our house. Now almost a year old we put them with large paddling pool and then built a bigger pond in a larger enclosure. Originally they loved the big new pond. Now they will never go in it. Completely baffled .
the only change that I can tell is that it went icy and they maybe skidded on their cute little bums on the surface and didn’t enjoy the experience. The pond is stagnant.
has anyone had any experience of this? The pond and enclosure cost a few thousand. Hoping it wasn’t an expensive mistake!

Do they just ignore the pond in favor of something else or do they actively avoid it like they're scared of it? If it's the latter, it could be that they had a close call with a predator and they associate almost getting eaten with that pond. Ducks have a good memory for experiences - especially painful/traumatic ones.