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It seems that a pair of wild ducks have adopted us!!!! They are in our back yard right now. They like our peppercorn tree... it has a big hole and a hollow trunk they pop in and out of. Lucky we don't have a dog/cat to threaten them.
Does anyone know if it's safe to give them small bits of wholegrain bread?
How cool if one day we see a string of ducklings emerge from the hole in the tree! HERE is a photo of the tree... will take a photo of the ducks when I can...
Aw how cute! I hope your get ducklings,(if you don't mind them in your back yard of course!) it'd be good for the kids to see! Plus, they're just gorgeous how they all waddle around in there little family as they do:lol:
No bread chick... now gimme photos!
Yeah, they loved the bread but it might not be good for them. Is there anything better? My 3yo has chased them off now... but this is about the fourth day they have visited... I think they like it here :)
You should be able to get duck pellets at your local produce store. They might like veges like lettuce leaves or little bits of tomato.
You might love them a little less when they poo on stuff :)
Yeah I know about the poo LOL DH had a pet duck when he was in his early 20's... it shat all over the veranda. Our backyard is very "country-fied" a bit of poo won't bother us too much.
They are great for keeping down garden pests without the damage that chooks can do.
Do they eat snails!? They have been poking around the vegie patch... haven't done any damage though.
Oooh, I hope they do - what a benefit!
Yeah, I refuse to use snail pellets or any kind of pesticide on my vegie patch... maybe I shouldn't be spraying the roses for aphids though :think: Maybe the ducks will eat the aphids and get sick?
Spray the roses with milky water - or just spray them off HARD with the hose. I just wipe them off myself.
ooohhhh i had a duck once, its name was peking :lol: he ate the snails and shat on the verandah, but i loved it!!
Aww I love ducks! We had ducks when I moved out of home at 18 mine was a black indian runner! Was so sad when i moved hom and he went to a farm...well i i hope thats where he went!
Gorgeous tree cant wait to see a pic of the duckies :)
Just wanted to say how much I love the word shat...
:rofl: haha me too! :P:
I agree. You can say the word "shat" with a kind of dignity that you can't claim when you say "sh*t".... and isn't it interesting how the censor feels the same way too! LOL