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So I've read that ring teals are the rabbits of wild duckies. If you didn't want an abundance of them would you: take their eggs? Not provide a nesting box they would like? I've not had experience with birds who WANT to hatch eggs.... Except 1 hen who has never succeeded despite her efforts.

I have these same problems. Not so much with this site, but nearly every other site. I'm on an Android now, but used to be iOS. I don't know enough about this crap to even follow the instructions below. Good luck with your issues. I suspect it's just that the entire internet is broken.😒

What types of birds do you keep?

What types of birds do you keep?

So, I am pondering building an approximately 180sq ft aviary primarily to house 4-6 ornamental ducks, ring teal, Mandarin possibly wood duck. I intend it to have several small ponds, a mulberry tree, ornamental grasses and other plants.... I (while Im hearing*not recommended*) am wondering, are...

Does anyone have any ground cover suggestions that ducks won’t destroy? I know plastic grass is one of the only plants rated for duck pens, but I’m still hoping to find something that will survive them.

I’m sorry. It’s not easy… I was thinking carabiners but the last time I had a raccoon loss it was a big one and a person had tampered with my closure. So I’m going with something a raccoon cannot operate. period.

Many years ago we left a fully feathered batch of chicks in a dog crate in our run overnight. One of the hatches wasn’t secured, a raccoon got into the run and took one of them apart bit by bit. In the morning the bird looked as though it had deflated, but all that was left was feathers and...

Also, chicken wire is great for somethings, but it doesn’t keep things out, we don’t use it on the coops, we only use hardware cloth. We use chicken wire to keep chickens from squeezing out of openings, and from wandering into gardens, but it’s just not safe to use it alone to keep things out...

That rock in the picture behind the pen goes all the way clear to china…. The back wall the burrower would have to burrow under 20 years of dead brush, clear 2 fences and the 3 foot bed of sand and drainage stone. On the other side the burrower would have to clear the shed, and a pile of very...

Fake grass is a good idea. I’m going to attempt a ground cover in the dirt part. Maybe some corn, like in groups but I don’t think it will get enough sun.

We don’t get much trouble from burrowing predators during the day here. Our main predators seem to be raccoons and hawks. The pen is surrounded by ledge and other things that make burrowing unlikely and in most places impossible. Their house is going to be secure against any predators that...

I’m not sure why, but the path of the duck pond water will grow nothing but this fairly invasive weed I hate. It could be because it is also a high traffic area AND as soon as the pond is dumped the ducks drill little duck holes everywhere in the waters path…. I wonder if they know what the poo...

That sounds similar to an above ground bio filter I built. Yours might actually work because you’re not trying to pump duck water. Mine failed over and over cuz you can’t pump duck water.

It was a thought I had to keep from dumping duck pond water down over my lawn… I can only assume it would be called a duptic system…