So far, so good! I am still in the installing process, but I have several areas that I have started to plant and they seem to be going according to plan. I placed my fencing so that there is about a 4" void at the bottom and 6 - 12" from the actual bank so that my GIANT frogs can still get around.
I raise ducks, geese, and chickens. They share a 1/2 acre area with a 60' x 60' pond. My rooster (RIR) will mount anything that he can catch, including the ducks. My ducks and geese will mount each other (not the chickens), however, recently I gave a friend 2 Rouen drakes to start his new...
My ducks and geese have eaten all the vegetation that was in the pond too. But now I am installing fencing to make containment areas to grow these things back. The ducks n geese are welcome to eat anything that grows through the containment areas (theoretically speaking).
I have a 60' by 60' by 12'deep pond that I am trying to naturalize. We built the pond for it's clay soil for our homes foundation....and then I got chickens, ducks, and geese. We all love our pond, but it is lacking natural features that would help keep the water clean. We have an aeration...