What the duck are my duckies doing there?

[Knighstar679]

Mine do it too. Mine have also come up with roots of what ever plant the are noodling around. If there is a puddle of water bigger than a half dollar in my duck pen they are noodling in it. They also seem to like to drink that water too instead of the nice fresh water I put out. I like to call it noodling because the sound reminds me of someone slurping noodles.

 

[Knighstar679]

But they could also be trying to dig a hole for you to fall in. Sometimes it seems like mine are trying to make a mine field waiting for me to fall in the holes they have made.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

are those hook bill ducks???

Nope, Fawn and white Indian Dig-Ducks.
They looked like coal miners when i herded them back to their platform. Well that fits for WV!
I would love to have some hook-bill ducks, first they became rare and i think that's sad, second they are the best egg layers and third they look noble with their hooked bills, just the glasses are missing…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

hahaha!

Or they look like they live in the dump

Mine looked like little coal miners yesterday!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

But they could also be trying to dig a hole for you to fall in. Sometimes it seems like mine are trying to make a mine field waiting for me to fall in the holes they have made.

Must be a revenge plot from my "evil" drake, Donald. He still does not know how to get out of the kiddy pool, i had him sitting there for over an hour yesterday, i just did not like to go back out i the rain…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I have to join this crowd between the chickens making moon size craters and the ducks billing in the muds our bird property is a sight. They love it so that is all that matters.

That's the reason why i'm planning to have multiple areas fenced in for the duckies. I don't mind having a lunar landscape in front of my patio, but i'm living on a steep hill-site and the grass is all that prevents it from sliding, learned that the hard way in spring…

 

[Miss Lydia]

Yep we’re on the side of a mt. We had to fence in the steep bank behind our house to keep the birds from excavating it into oblivion.They have so much fun doing it too.