The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: clydesdaleclopper on April 22, 2015, 11:04:36 pm
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They've been found out ::)
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My ducks walk around like this all day. My grass edges are full of round holes which, at first I thought were mouse holes, but no, they are duck beak holes ::)
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I wonder if anybody else has seen this:
Our geese have a kids paddling pool for a pond, and spend much of the day filling it with whatever they can find (mostly sticks and beech nuts from the trees). It's almost as though they're trying to build a nest in it.
Any ideas? ???
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How do they get in and out of the pool Womble. Are they big enough to step in and out?
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Yes, it's just one of these (minus the sand of course)
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I use a kids sandpit too! Ours is a pink turtle! :D
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Mines a red turtle :roflanim: so much easier then the pond we originally used which needed cleaning on a weekly basis as it got so filthy.
They also managed to create an entire maze in my previous lawn by rooting up the grass in long survey lines, made it a nightmare to cut.
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I wonder if anybody else has seen this:
Our geese have a kids paddling pool for a pond, and spend much of the day filling it with whatever they can find (mostly sticks and beech nuts from the trees). It's almost as though they're trying to build a nest in it.
Any ideas? ???
Mine do that too. No idea why!
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Our geese have a large pond, but they still love their 'bath tubs' of two shallow tub trugs. They pull grass up by the roots where the ground is soft; swish it in the tub and then eat it. I presume it is to wash the soil off the tasty roots. We also have lots of wibble holes in the grass.
Helen :D
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'Wibble holes'. Exactly this xD
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'Wibble holes'. Exactly this xD
I just love the noise they make when they are doing it
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We have several sources of water for geese, pigs and sheep, two halves of a life raft cover, large lick tubs and rubber trugs, plus a "proper" galvanised trough. The geese go to each one in turn and filthy it up ::)
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Would geese mow my grass for me or just make great holes in it? I have a puppy that does that for me! :innocent:
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No, geese don't dibble as long as the females have plenty of large grit. They will keep your lawn like a bowling green but do need plenty of grass.
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....A rather poopy bowling green. I love my geese but they do have some throughput!