Instant Pond

[NativeSon]

Brandi,

The Ducks look like they are settling in nicely and are right at home. They have got to be a lot of fun to watch.

Yesterday evening after Denise got home from Church we set out on the back deck and watched 2 cottontails play and chase each other all over the back yard. They live under the deck so I think they will be able to keep away from the varmints. "Chili" the only old dog we have left use to keep the bunnies in hiding and now only watches as she's gotten too slow to bother chasing anything.

I just hope they will come out and play the next time the Grandkids are here. They'll get a bang out of that.

Charlie

 

[EddieWalker]

Beautiful pic of the ducks in your pond. I've thought about the blue dye for my small pond, but then get cheap and figure brown is OK. We've been having trouble with eggs from our ducks. They lay them, sit on them, then all of a sudden, all the eggs are gone and the ducks are off the nest. We think it's raccoons from the tracks, and added a hot wire about six inches off the ground on the fence around the pond. So far we haven't seen any raccoon tracks inside the fence since doing this, but nobody is sitting on eggs right now either.

Eddie

 

[bindian]

Brandi,

The Ducks look like they are settling in nicely and are right at home. They have got to be a lot of fun to watch.

Yesterday evening after Denise got home from Church we set out on the back deck and watched 2 cottontails play and chase each other all over the back yard. They live under the deck so I think they will be able to keep away from the varmints. "Chili" the only old dog we have left use to keep the bunnies in hiding and now only watches as she's gotten too slow to bother chasing anything.

I just hope they will come out and play the next time the Grandkids are here. They'll get a bang out of that.

Charlie

That would be a hoot watching the Grandkids watching bunnies. I made a lazy day of it yesterday and took the time to take a chair out to the dam and watched them, just before dark. The little ones were all grouped up on the island and reluctant to get off of it..
Last night or this morning, they came off the island and I just herded them to their feeder. I feed the older ones a cup a day of hen scratch on the ground, but took the little one's feeder out to them.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Beautiful pic of the ducks in your pond. I've thought about the blue dye for my small pond, but then get cheap and figure brown is OK. We've been having trouble with eggs from our ducks. They lay them, sit on them, then all of a sudden, all the eggs are gone and the ducks are off the nest. We think it's raccoons from the tracks, and added a hot wire about six inches off the ground on the fence around the pond. So far we haven't seen any raccoon tracks inside the fence since doing this, but nobody is sitting on eggs right now either.

Eddie

Eddie,
Thanks. At the rate I add the dye, it really isn't much. I buy a gallon every 2-3 years. One gallon lasted me almost 4 years, but I added the second pond after using the dye for 3 years. I only use it during algae growing season. None at all in the winter.

The coons will soon learn how to get over that hot wire. First weekend in May here, we have a trade day at the fairgrounds. Just for animals and birds. I am going to find two geese to put in with the ducks. I have heard the geese will police against possums and coons, and will eat snakes.
hugs, Brandi

 

[NativeSon]

Brandi-
A goose would seem to be a good idea. The domestic ones that I've run into were always mean as a snake.

Charlie

 

[mark02tj]

I have heard the geese will police against possums and coons, and will eat snakes.

A goose would seem to be a good idea. The domestic ones that I've run into were always mean as a snake.

If they eat the snakes, apparently the geese are meaner! :laughing:



When I was a kid and had my paper route, one of my customers was on what was left of their family farm. He kept geese there. I always dreaded delivering that newspaper!!

 

[bindian]

Charlie and Mark,
I was chased by one when I was little. So I am hesitant, but willing to go above and beyond for my duckies and their eggs.
hugs, Brandi

 

[newbury]

Charlie and Mark,
I was chased by one when I was little. So I am hesitant, but willing to go above and beyond for my duckies and their eggs.
hugs, Brandi

Guina fowl for snakes:

Just too funny, thought it would be appreciated here:

I don't know why the snake called the meeting.

 

[bindian]

newbury,
I know guinea are loud at times, but will they take out coons and possum?
The only poultry I like walking around are water fowl..........thus geese.
hugs, Brandi

 

[cat fever]

Bindian,

Read the whole thread last night. (not to busy at work) All I can say is WOW!! :thumbsup:
When I see pictures on TBN it sure makes me want to move to a wetter region. I would kill for a pond. If I dug a hole, it would still be a hole next year and the next.:smiley_aafz:
You have done an awesome job...congrats