Sunday bath (Pic Overload)

[tia]

The pictures are wonderful. Thank you for sharing.

 

[gofasterstripe]

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Yes William is in the 1st 2 phots with Finn....if you see Finn you will see William right there with him.

 

[gofasterstripe]

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[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Awww! They look so H A P P Y !

Lisa

 

[gofasterstripe]

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Pompom does NOT stop...all day back and forth, back and forth, shes always on a Mission. She will be eating out of 1 bowl then RUN across the yard to go eat out of another and RUN back again then RUN to get a drink but not out of the bucket next to the feed, the bucket on the other side of the yard.....I LOVE them...thank you. xxx

EDITED to say....see the orange on the side of her face, is that clay dirt or the color of her feathers. she has had plenty of baths and its still there so i dont know if its dirt of just her color, plus Fiona..the little crested one she has orange on her chest..is it dirt or orangey/browny feathers??? weird

 

[gofasterstripe]

Good Lord!!!!
What am I doing wrong that im having to clean pools every day. I clean 1 pool and by the time ive finished 3 pools and 6 buckets of water the 1st clean pool is DIRTY, and i mean dirty. They have clean water every day, but then again...we have clean clothes every day so why shouldnt the ducks

 

[easttxchick]

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I have to clean out pools every day as well. I think the main reason I do it is I LOVE their reaction when they first get into that nice clean water!
I wish I could get close enough at bath time to get pictures-they'd soak my camera if I tried.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! The cheek-spot is permanent. I think both crested girls have an orange spot on one side --- called them 'Peach-faced' here (don't remember noticing orange on her chest) and the black/white PekinxSwedish drake has the same orange spot on one cheek.

Lisa

 

[FenDruadin]

Ha ha! You are doing NOTHING wrong. I clean pools daily too. They are disgusting within five minutes.

Number of ducks makes a big difference. With them divided into breeding groups, they only get free range time in shifts. So some days there are only four or five ducks using the "communal" pool in the middle of the yard, and I'm amazed at how undisgusting it is at the end of the day. Dirty, yes. But not completely revolting, and I can sometimes almost see an inch or two into the water through the muck.

Sometimes, I deliberately let one of the pools get really mucky. Then I dump it into an area that I want prepped for planting. The ducks gladly do my digging and tilling for me, and at the end of the day the area is a solid grass-free mud puddle that in a few days is ready to put a tree or flower in (could probably prepare seed planting beds this way too.... hmmm, what would happen if I did that on top of a straw bale & then planted lettuce seeds??). I also dump muck water out around the base of fruit trees, and it does amazing things for their growth. Aerated compost tea.

 

[TLWR]

Day 1 here is fun clean water day and they have a blast.
Day 2 it starts getting yucky, so they do a bath, but don't do the clean water nuts routine.
Day 3 they swim, they hang out, the don't dunk.
Day 4 they swim and if they haven't spent a lot of time the last 3 days, they can hang out. If they spent a lot of time the prior 3 days, it is gross and they don't stay in the water too long or too often.

But I only have 3 and it is sitting on pea gravel, so they aren't making it a muddy mess.


Their small pool - that sucker got cleaned every day once they were big.