HC wrote:
Aha.....you need a pair of ducks (or more) in the garden to eat the
snails and slugs. Ducks are lovely people, very friendly and she will
reward you every day with a nice fresh egg.

We let our ducks (two boys and a girl, guess they just have
to share) have the run of the backyard. We have no snails and
just a few slugs. But we don't get an egg a day. These are
appleyards and they seem to be very seasonal in their laying.
Then when she does lay, the crows usually get it.

We plan to get a couple of chooks once I have built a yard.
Ducks are pretty garden friendly, but chooks will turn the
garden into a desolation.

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Ducks are pretty garden friendly, but chooks will turn the
garden into a desolation.

Try Silkies if you want to try chooks in the garden. They are small
and not as active as bigger hens.

Farm1 wrote:
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Ducks are pretty garden friendly, but chooks will turn the
garden into a desolation.

Try Silkies if you want to try chooks in the garden. They are small
and not as active as bigger hens.

We had some silkies. I was not particularly impressed. I found them
a bit delicate, they aren't great layers and they are too broody.

I plan to fence off a corner of my yard and keep the ducks and a
couple of chooks on deep litter, just letting them out for an hour
or so every now and again. I bought some golden campines for
my dad, and they are very attractive birds. Maybe a bit flighty.
Maybe I will get a pair of australorps.

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Farm1 wrote:
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Ducks are pretty garden friendly, but chooks will turn the
garden into a desolation.

Try Silkies if you want to try chooks in the garden. They are
small
and not as active as bigger hens.

We had some silkies. I was not particularly impressed. I found them
a bit delicate, they aren't great layers and they are too broody.

I don't like them either but many gardeners swear by them.

Maybe I will get a pair of australorps.

Of the readily available pure breeds, I like Autralorps the best.

Farm1 wrote:
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Ducks are pretty garden friendly, but chooks will turn the
garden into a desolation.

Try Silkies if you want to try chooks in the garden. They are small
and not as active as bigger hens.

yeah, they're nice. We had a large and expanding gang of langsheng bantams
for some years, and they were nice in the garden, although they liked
dustbaths and took over a sunny spot in the garden to have them. They didn't
wreck stuff though, or behave in a disgraceful manner like larger chooks.

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How mean to make those drakes share their duck? Shame on you!! ROFLMHO!!

Why not get a trio (one drake and two ducks) of Indian Runners.....they
are very tall and high egg producers. Don't each much either and also
great people!!

Have to try and discourage the crow...get a white quartz stone, or paint
a stone, about the same size as an egg and leave it out for the crow.
Another very good remedy is not printable!! ;-)

Bronwyn ;-)

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HC wrote:

Aha.....you need a pair of ducks (or more) in the garden to eat the
snails and slugs. Ducks are lovely people, very friendly and she will
reward you every day with a nice fresh egg.


We let our ducks (two boys and a girl, guess they just have
to share) have the run of the backyard. We have no snails and
just a few slugs. But we don't get an egg a day. These are
appleyards and they seem to be very seasonal in their laying.
Then when she does lay, the crows usually get it.

We plan to get a couple of chooks once I have built a yard.
Ducks are pretty garden friendly, but chooks will turn the
garden into a desolation.