The Quack Shack

[shawluvsbirds]

I found a dead sparrow in my pen a few months back. Not sure how it died but no one ate it. I have been having problems with them even with things I have bought that were to scare them away. I have netting over part of the pens but they are smart and can find the smallest hole. Anyone have any luck in chasing them away from the pens?

Nope. Sparrows are eating my birds food too. You'd think the ducks would chase them away but no.
The reason we find a dead one once in a while here is they smack the window.

 

[Canadian Wind]

Nope. Sparrows are eating my birds food too. You'd think the ducks would chase them away but no.
The reason we find a dead one once in a while here is they smack the window.

I have bold chipmunks coming right into the pens to steal their food!

 

[Supercow]

The dux that still sleep in their house are also active during the night: They hunt the mice that woke up due to the mild weather…

Ours are chatting a lot also overnight... It's a global duck uprising being coordinated

 

[Jenbirdee]

Is this the kind of spot that means the egg was fertilized? I just never had a Drake long enough before to actually come across a real fertilized egg.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Is this the kind of spot that means the egg was fertilized? I just never had a Drake long enough before to actually come across a real fertilized egg.

Most likley.. but it's so hard to tell from a photo.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

My husband is over wintering his pepper plants and he said he uses lady bugs to get rid of them. You can order them but his were already on his plants so he just left them on there to feast on them. His are out in a heated garage though so I don't know if you would want more bugs in your house or not.

My wife would freak out if i let loose even more bugs in the house…
I have sprayed a variety of insecticides on to the plants, so i am not sure if that would be healthy for the lady-bugs.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Glad they were able to at least let you know Frank.

I need to re-think the drain pipes of my waterer system. Need to switch from ½" pipes to at least 1" and use a gate-valve instead of a ball valve, so that the valve won't clog up from all the debris the dux put into their water.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Nope. Sparrows are eating my birds food too. You'd think the ducks would chase them away but no.
The reason we find a dead one once in a while here is they smack the window.

This year i had Cardinals nesting inside of the dux-house. They went completely mad when i went inside to collect the eggs - the dux-eggs of course - but still managed to raise some young.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Is this the kind of spot that means the egg was fertilized? I just never had a Drake long enough before to actually come across a real fertilized egg.

Any wild mallards in the area? ...

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Happy
Mild Weather Monday
to Everybody!​

So it looks like the first weeks of January will be brutal…