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Ducks and ponds?
This is the first year I have a pond and I am finding all of it a lot
of fun (and very relaxing). I have a small 100 Gallon pond (in a Rubbermaid stocktank) with a 30 gallon waterfall tub/filter in an above ground planter that I built. I live in Baltimore city so I was very suprised to find a small duck sitting by the pond this morning when I left for work. I would have taken a picture but I scared him away before I could take it. He seemed really indignant that I would disturb his morning interlude at the pond and he made a slightly angry quack at me before flying off. My question is will ducks eat fish (I have a few small goldfish) or hurt plants (Lily, Clover, Umbrella Palm, and Water Lettuce)? The duck was very cute but it is not welcome if he is here for breakfast. Larry |
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Hi Larry,
You haven given me the opportunity to post the best answer to any question ever made to rec.ponds.... But before I do that what a duck eats depends on the individual duck. There are diving ducks and dabbling ducks. And it depends on the time of year, is the duck a female preparing for reproduction and what food is available. They will eat insects, worms, tiny frogs, snails, slugs, small shellfish, fish, tadpoles, aquatic insects, grasses, and other plants. Both above and under the water. And now for our classic duck answer From Ian in New Zealand ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I have a Peking duck, it's a beautiful white innocent thing that poops in unbelievable quantities. Never mind about a bio-filter, you are going to need a sewerage system suitable for a small town to deal with what this duck is going to do to your pond. would they stay or would they leave? No need to fret on this account - ducks never take the hint. Chuck it in the air and it'll come right back. Sure it will occasionally wander out onto the highway, but motorists would rather run off the road and kill all their passengers than hit a duck that's sitting looking right at them. Look closely at the general design of your average duck, notice that the cranium is small. It is my belief that if you could take all the duck brains in the world and combine them in a sort of super organic computer you would basically have a machine with a loose bowel and a vocabulary limited to: "quack". A duck is a natural born lobotomy. wondering if the cats if the neighborhood would bother them. Hell no, the neighborhood cats will not bother your duck, unless it is a duckling which you have just presented to your young daughter. Actually you will find the neighborhood cats will avoid close encounters with anything that looks like a duck. This is partly because cats dislike stepping in duck doo to get to their prey and partly because the duck thinks any passing cat must be its mother/sister/brother/mate. Even the staunchest Tom cat finds it unnerving to have to deal with this sort of thing and will generally go to extremes to avoid an embarrassing encounter. Would we need to put a fence around it? Sure, fence your duck, but it wont do you any good. You will still hear screeching tires on the road and the neighbors will still phone you up to say your duck is harassing their cat again. If you do get a duck be sure to turn on the lights at night before your walk across the lawn. One of the most unforgettable experiences you can have is tripping over a sleeping duck in the dark. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ k30a |
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oh, thanks, k30a. i laugh every time i read this!
mad -- I think NASCAR would be much more exciting if, like in a skating rink, every 15 minutes someone announced it was time to reverse direction. From: ESPMER (K30a) Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Newsgroups: rec.ponds Date: 12 Jun 2003 23:17:57 GMT Subject: Ducks and ponds? Hi Larry, You haven given me the opportunity to post the best answer to any question ever made to rec.ponds.... But before I do that what a duck eats depends on the individual duck. There are diving ducks and dabbling ducks. And it depends on the time of year, is the duck a female preparing for reproduction and what food is available. They will eat insects, worms, tiny frogs, snails, slugs, small shellfish, fish, tadpoles, aquatic insects, grasses, and other plants. Both above and under the water. And now for our classic duck answer From Ian in New Zealand ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I have a Peking duck, it's a beautiful white innocent thing that poops in unbelievable quantities. Never mind about a bio-filter, you are going to need a sewerage system suitable for a small town to deal with what this duck is going to do to your pond. would they stay or would they leave? No need to fret on this account - ducks never take the hint. Chuck it in the air and it'll come right back. Sure it will occasionally wander out onto the highway, but motorists would rather run off the road and kill all their passengers than hit a duck that's sitting looking right at them. Look closely at the general design of your average duck, notice that the cranium is small. It is my belief that if you could take all the duck brains in the world and combine them in a sort of super organic computer you would basically have a machine with a loose bowel and a vocabulary limited to: "quack". A duck is a natural born lobotomy. wondering if the cats if the neighborhood would bother them. Hell no, the neighborhood cats will not bother your duck, unless it is a duckling which you have just presented to your young daughter. Actually you will find the neighborhood cats will avoid close encounters with anything that looks like a duck. This is partly because cats dislike stepping in duck doo to get to their prey and partly because the duck thinks any passing cat must be its mother/sister/brother/mate. Even the staunchest Tom cat finds it unnerving to have to deal with this sort of thing and will generally go to extremes to avoid an embarrassing encounter. Would we need to put a fence around it? Sure, fence your duck, but it wont do you any good. You will still hear screeching tires on the road and the neighbors will still phone you up to say your duck is harassing their cat again. If you do get a duck be sure to turn on the lights at night before your walk across the lawn. One of the most unforgettable experiences you can have is tripping over a sleeping duck in the dark. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ k30a -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =----- |
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Larry wrote:
This is the first year I have a pond and I am finding all of it a lot of fun (and very relaxing). I have a small 100 Gallon pond (in a Rubbermaid stocktank) with a 30 gallon waterfall tub/filter in an above ground planter that I built. I live in Baltimore city so I was very suprised to find a small duck sitting by the pond this morning when I left for work. I would have taken a picture but I scared him away before I could take it. He seemed really indignant that I would disturb his morning interlude at the pond and he made a slightly angry quack at me before flying off. My question is will ducks eat fish (I have a few small goldfish) or hurt plants (Lily, Clover, Umbrella Palm, and Water Lettuce)? The duck was very cute but it is not welcome if he is here for breakfast. I wouldn't worry what it eats. I'd worry about the quantity of duck poop (no, not the Marx brothers film.) Joe -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =----- |
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Larry,
Can you e-mail me privately? I tried to e-mail you, but it got returned. I wanted to ask you about your filter. Thanks, Scott "Larry" wrote in message ... This is the first year I have a pond and I am finding all of it a lot of fun (and very relaxing). I have a small 100 Gallon pond (in a Rubbermaid stocktank) with a 30 gallon waterfall tub/filter in an above ground planter that I built. I live in Baltimore city so I was very suprised to find a small duck sitting by the pond this morning when I left for work. I would have taken a picture but I scared him away before I could take it. He seemed really indignant that I would disturb his morning interlude at the pond and he made a slightly angry quack at me before flying off. My question is will ducks eat fish (I have a few small goldfish) or hurt plants (Lily, Clover, Umbrella Palm, and Water Lettuce)? The duck was very cute but it is not welcome if he is here for breakfast. Larry |
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Larry wrote:
I live in Baltimore city so I was very suprised to find a small duck sitting by the pond this morning when I left for work. I would have taken a picture but I scared him away before I could take it. He seemed really indignant that I would disturb his morning interlude at the pond and he made a slightly angry quack at me before flying off. My question is will ducks eat fish (I have a few small goldfish) or hurt plants (Lily, Clover, Umbrella Palm, and Water Lettuce)? The duck was very cute but it is not welcome if he is here for breakfast. I've not had any problems, with a pair of mallards that have come back each spring for the last couple of years, they come around twice a day to feed. Apparently they live a few blocks over in the village park lagoon. I put out shelled corn (whole kernels) for them, which the squirrels also eat. |
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K30a,
Thank you for that - I have not laughed that hard in a long time Hopefully this was just a one time duck encounter and I will be able to go outside bare-foot this weekend. |
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On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 23:50:08 GMT, "Scott Teetsel"
wrote: Scott, You probably had trouble with the email since you have to remove the "BYEBYESPAM" part of my address for it to work. The filter I am using it just the 14" Little Giant waterfall box (Pro Falls) with bio-balls in the bottom and a PolyFilter in the top. Here is a link: http://www.littlegiant.com/LittleGia...256A4500554258 I have put plants in the top (there is about 4" of water) and it looks very nice. There will also be rocks around it hide it a bit and make look at bit more natural. The falls themselves are a perfect sheet of water and make a very pleasant sound. Larry Larry, Can you e-mail me privately? I tried to e-mail you, but it got returned. I wanted to ask you about your filter. Thanks, Scott |
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RFLMAO. Thanks K30
-- _______________________________________ "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: The chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'." http://community.webshots.com/user/godwino "K30a" wrote in message ... Hi Larry, You haven given me the opportunity to post the best answer to any question ever made to rec.ponds.... But before I do that what a duck eats depends on the individual duck. There are diving ducks and dabbling ducks. And it depends on the time of year, is the duck a female preparing for reproduction and what food is available. They will eat insects, worms, tiny frogs, snails, slugs, small shellfish, fish, tadpoles, aquatic insects, grasses, and other plants. Both above and under the water. And now for our classic duck answer From Ian in New Zealand ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I have a Peking duck, it's a beautiful white innocent thing that poops in unbelievable quantities. Never mind about a bio-filter, you are going to need a sewerage system suitable for a small town to deal with what this duck is going to do to your pond. would they stay or would they leave? No need to fret on this account - ducks never take the hint. Chuck it in the air and it'll come right back. Sure it will occasionally wander out onto the highway, but motorists would rather run off the road and kill all their passengers than hit a duck that's sitting looking right at them. Look closely at the general design of your average duck, notice that the cranium is small. It is my belief that if you could take all the duck brains in the world and combine them in a sort of super organic computer you would basically have a machine with a loose bowel and a vocabulary limited to: "quack". A duck is a natural born lobotomy. wondering if the cats if the neighborhood would bother them. Hell no, the neighborhood cats will not bother your duck, unless it is a duckling which you have just presented to your young daughter. Actually you will find the neighborhood cats will avoid close encounters with anything that looks like a duck. This is partly because cats dislike stepping in duck doo to get to their prey and partly because the duck thinks any passing cat must be its mother/sister/brother/mate. Even the staunchest Tom cat finds it unnerving to have to deal with this sort of thing and will generally go to extremes to avoid an embarrassing encounter. Would we need to put a fence around it? Sure, fence your duck, but it wont do you any good. You will still hear screeching tires on the road and the neighbors will still phone you up to say your duck is harassing their cat again. If you do get a duck be sure to turn on the lights at night before your walk across the lawn. One of the most unforgettable experiences you can have is tripping over a sleeping duck in the dark. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ k30a |
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Ducks and ponds?
They'll eat water celery if you have it. Some rec ponds stock water celery
as food for wildlife. I was going to stock my pond with it but had fear it'd take over. "Larry" wrote in message ... This is the first year I have a pond and I am finding all of it a lot of fun (and very relaxing). I have a small 100 Gallon pond (in a Rubbermaid stocktank) with a 30 gallon waterfall tub/filter in an above ground planter that I built. I live in Baltimore city so I was very suprised to find a small duck sitting by the pond this morning when I left for work. I would have taken a picture but I scared him away before I could take it. He seemed really indignant that I would disturb his morning interlude at the pond and he made a slightly angry quack at me before flying off. My question is will ducks eat fish (I have a few small goldfish) or hurt plants (Lily, Clover, Umbrella Palm, and Water Lettuce)? The duck was very cute but it is not welcome if he is here for breakfast. Larry |
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