Rural Gardening: YIPPPPPPEEEE!! Our 1st broody just hatched her 1st chick...., 0 by ladybugsabound2

ladybugsabound2 wrote:
Molly.....you are right, I don't remember Payton Place. (never even heard of it) I have been writing about all the critter adventures here, and I blog about them too! I also have started a record, on a chart to keep track of dates, hatching times, chicks, etc.
Is there any truth in the saying, 'you are only as old as you feel?' Sorry about your damaged spine. It really must make things very tough sometimes.

tf........is there any way you could make a cover for you critter pool? Maybe so they can only use it what you are outside doing chores or something? Or maybe you could put a fence up around it somehow.........to keep the water critters in and the chicks from accidentally falling in?

Molly again.......I would hope that if you did have a pond that they wouldn't do like ours do. They will not go in the pond! They refuse and it seems like no matter of coaxing can convince them that they will love it, just give it a try. Instead the goofy ducks and geese come all the way back to the house, then try to swim in a puddle by the road or they take turns taking a quick dip in the old sink we have under the water faucet. The sink is the drinking water for all our free ranging critters and they gunk it up in a hurry! I don't know if they are just nervous or just know they are doing wrong, but when I walk up to them while they are surrounding the sink, they almost act guilty.....like they know they are doing wrong and they get up really fast and run! (I'm trying to figure out how to trick them into seeing that the pond is GOOOOOOD!)

Here's a pic of most of them hiding in the shade by the house. We have 1 Pekin female, 4 Ruin females, and 5 buff/gray tolouse (sp?) geese. Not all of them are in
this pic.