plants and shrubs for duck pen?

[DuckDuckGuinea]

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Like, planted? Or propped up a cut tree?

In the Christmas stand!

 

[fisharescary]

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Like, planted? Or propped up a cut tree?

In the Christmas stand!

Do ducks like cranberries?! You could decorate with strung cranberries next year!
Blueberries maybe?!

 

[wpalmisano]

Lol, keeping vegetation alive in my duck pen. I have tried everything. Unless you have 200 sq' per duck, it ain't gonna happen. Even if they don't eat any of it, their droppings are so numerous and so toxic to vegetation it kills everything. What I do is move them around the yard in a very simple duck tractor, and "rest" their main pen. It hasn't rained in weeks here, and everything is duck dropping mess. Anyway, that's just my opinion. Haven't tried gravel yet, but thinking on it.

 

[Happyflower]

Ducks will try to eat anything green. My (2) ducks ate my entire backyard water and perennial garden in one summer. The only things that remain are my holly bushes, ivy(nothing will kill that it seems), some evergreens, Euonymus, forsythia, thickly planted common daylillies, burning bush...Most of these were very well established before the ducks. They seem to eat ALL pond plants.

 

[laughingdog]

Is willow, eaten or chopped down into pond, toxic to scovys? i showed my scovys the pond on rented property, and recently willow sapling brush was cut down by thresher. will eating leaves, drinking water, and diving and bathing/playing in kill babies and adults?

 

[Amiga]

Is willow, eaten or chopped down into pond, toxic to scovys? i showed my scovys the pond on rented property, and recently willow sapling brush was cut down by thresher. will eating leaves, drinking water, and diving and bathing/playing in kill babies and adults?

I have been thinking about this...I read that someone on the forum has given their Muscovies an aspirin, that used to be made from willow, but I am not sure I recall correctly... Wouldn't it be nice to have an encyclopedia of toxic plants for waterfowl?

Let me see if I can turn anything else up. I also thing it would depend on just how much willow they ingest.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I have been thinking about this...I read that someone on the forum has given their Muscovies an aspirin, that used to be made from willow, but I am not sure I recall correctly... Wouldn't it be nice to have an encyclopedia of toxic plants for waterfowl?

Let me see if I can turn anything else up. I also thing it would depend on just how much willow they ingest.

A, I was giving my Muscovydrake a baby aspirin a day because I think he may have arthritis, but someone gave me this link which says aspirin can cause kidney damage in ducks, I'm thinking the willow tree if they chewed on it could cause a problem, but my ducks don't chew on branches and leaves of trees like my geese do. http://www.duckrescuenetwork.org/DRNBoard/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=168

 

[CraigT]

I am not sure if this has been thought of or been tried but what about using shepherd hooks for hanging pots instead of planting in the ground? This way you can provide shade and maybe even provide some green vine that they can eat off the bottom but not injure the base of the plant.. just a random though that might help some of us that can't seem to keep anything in the pen.

 

[Amiga]

I think CraigT has a good idea there!