Welcome to my pond - Swim, wade, or sit on the bank

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Power keeps going out.
Guess I'm going to head on to bed.
Y'all have a great night..

 

[WVduckchick]

Ahhh... Posting without a comment. So its gonna be one of THOSE days.
Love the new avy WV. Sorry about the one ling. but the others are sooooo cute!!!Whats your boat ramp made out of?

Thanks! Avy is a pretty little cochin I hatched this weekend.

The ramp out of the boat is some kind of steel grating my hubby found, I think it came from a dismantled fire escape! Lol Everything else we tried floated. It's wrapped in super heavy plastic octagon netting for better footing. I just added the little rubber mat at the top across the edge for the ducklings, since the grate sits about 3-4" below the top.

The funniest thing is when they fall off the side, straight into the water, a good foot below! Water level is down because I drained it before the last rain, then it didn't rain long enough to refill it. Of course!

Did y'all know that ducks don't get stressed ? I just learned that today. Never too late to learn.

Tsk, tsk.

 

[WVduckchick]

My 4 drakes seem ok about sharing their pond with a beautiful pair of wild wood ducks. I set up a nest box last year, I think she is using it this year.
(yes my pond is horribly muddy!)

 

[CapricornFarm]

Power keeps going out.
Guess I'm going to head on to bed.
Y'all have a great night..

Good night FMF. Trying to catch up.

 

[room onthebroom]

'Really' ?

Nice one!

 

[room onthebroom]

My 4 drakes seem ok about sharing their pond with a beautiful pair of wild wood ducks. I set up a nest box last year, I think she is using it this year.
(yes my pond is horribly muddy!)
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Hey, humans would pay good money to soak in there.

 

[kwhites634]

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That is what you do when your husband sold your good tiller when you left TN. I dig up the clay, add sand and manure and mix it all up and put it back in the hole. Plants do much better. Put cranberry beans in the raised bed garden.

Sounds like a whole lot of work and a royal pain in the backside. I take it you either have no row crops or an extremely short garden.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

I would go anyway and be sure to send the person pictures of all the fish i caught!

Yeah to far to go by myself..... But I'm going with someone else Tuesday..... He'll show up!

 

[LittleLakePhil]

which one is the Drake? It isn't clear to me. Who was it hat bred Anconas? She had a jillion birds... sold most. .. friend of Rav.... uh..... farm..barn... mini horse farm???

Just how does your snow melt so fast?

We hit the mid 60's for last couple of days.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

65 is high summer!!

Last summer we were 75 all summer.... Didn't get much warmer than that till fall..... Then we had a couple real hot days.