The Quack Shack

[Muscovy Wunda]

Count down, 6 sleeps until chaos. Setting birds up for our three nights away. They will be fed and watered by neighbour, but only checked once a day. The ducks love their new big body of water, but thus far (one week) only one drake has worked out how to get in their pool.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

What a lovely flock! But I'm wondering what that spiky green stuff is in the foreground...

Some of the green is some sort of grassy weed stuff that isn't really grass.
Some is wheat grass from the seeds that fell out of the straw.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Most of the yard is brown. We actually moved the duck pen over a square because there was a hole that flooded right there where the water pan is outside the pen now. All that wheat grass came up where the pen used to be.
They have about demolished at all now. But for a while they had a nice little carpeted area over there. I filled in that hole and put the water Pan there. For when it's warmer out they can come out and swim.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

It is starting to get cold enough now, we need to get some windblock around the back side of that pen. It is not looking like we are getting a barn built any time soon. We are still working on the interior of our house.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

However they don't seem to care how cold and windy it is. You would be surprised how many of them can pile up in that little shelter if they want to. And then there's all those little huts. They can get in to get out of the wind. But they all stand out there in the wide open anyway.
I am just past the point of worrying about them so much. I guess if they are too stupid to live...
They can just stand out there and freeze to death.

Sorry miss Lydia
I know that hurts your heart!

 

[Canadian Wind]

Has yours been covered up ?
I’m in southern Alberta and I also have green spikes
Not that I’m complaining
The white stuff can stay away

I haven't had any greenery since August! They devoured whatever there was. Just a filed of mud now.

But yes, everything is covered now. Although we've had relatively mild weather for a few days, so everything is now ice instead of snow. Makes for treacherous footing. Or lack of footing.

 

[New duck mommy 2021]

I haven't had any greenery since August! They devoured whatever there was. Just a filed of mud now.

But yes, everything is covered now. Although we've had relatively mild weather for a few days, so everything is now ice instead of snow. Makes for treacherous footing. Or lack of footing.

Yes the ice is very dangerous for us
Even watching my birds on ice makes me nervous
I ask them each time
Did you guys put on your skates

 

[Miss Lydia]

When mine come out of their coop when we have had snow that turns to ice I worry about them as they are sliding down the ramp it's not that steep but they still slide it takes all I can do to keep from busting out laughing.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Their supper bowl isn't luring them in? That's about the only thing I can think of...

I am planning to move the fire-pit more upwind of the pond. Smoked ducks…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I rescued two wild ones that bred with my domestic ones years ago. They all looked just like Mallards and could fly as when I rehomed the drake he flew away from the guy I let have him.

That is my concern: A half wild duck that has the instinct to fly south but is unable to…