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Show him the door!!!.........ROFLMHO ;-)))
LindaB wrote: -db- wrote: i second that. ducks are great. they are reasonably quiet and can be good with kids. they'll certainly clean up the snails (the ducks of course) Yeah, except it is family folklore about my brother next door, who had ducks, coming in to ask for a recipe for duck and broccoli soup. He said "It won't take long to make - the broccoli is already all in the ducks" |
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In article , HC wrote:
Have you thought about a couple of ducks? They don't scratch in the garden and will eat snails etc as well as give you some eggs. A bit dish for water (or small tub) sunk into the ground makes a good swimming hole for them too. My younger son is 3 months old, so he won't be drownproofed for a couple of years. I thought ducks had to dabble their food, resulting in a fair bit of mud around? -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is nothing worth being eager or vigorous about." Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893. |
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Chookie wrote:
My younger son is 3 months old, so he won't be drownproofed for a couple of years. I thought ducks had to dabble their food, resulting in a fair bit of mud around? Only just around the water. The problem with most duck yards I've seen is that the ducks are caged into a relatively small area and of course they pick all the green out of it, so it ends up muddy. The "problem" is that they dabble other stuff, like soil in the water and of course you have to occassionally dredge the water dish/pond. In small yards, this means they tend to excavate near the pond. speaking of Katrina, an uncle has ducks and of course he suck a whole pile of bath tubs for the ducks. It would have been better if he had not suck them the full way and put an outlet trench to drain them off. Instead he now has to laboriously empty them each time. and you need a ramp, in bath tubs, that they can not move, just incase one falls in and can not get out. but the duck and broccoli would be a major problem here. Of course, if they like borage, or roddicio (sp?) or even spinach or comfrey, then there wouldn't be a major propblem with sharing that. Not sure I want to go back to fencing in all the gardens again (shades of free range rabbits at one stage). |
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