The Humble Soapnut - A Guide to the Laundry Detergent that Grows on Trees ebook by Kathryn Ossing
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Jay Angler wrote:Does anyone have permanent paddocks set up for rotating ducks through?
I'm wondering if they would be happy with the fresh grass, or if changing their paddock every few days would make them more anxious.
Brieanne Rice wrote:Just want to share a bit of an Aha moment that I recently had. Geese can be so overbearing with my ducks, don't need grain, and just kind of don't fit in to the bigger picture of what I'm doing on our property. However, Asian style goose cooked over a bed of butternut squash and potatoes will always fit nicely with what I'm doing. Then I heard a voice say, "Treat them like the graziers they are!" Aha! Yes! Sooooo, they now go into electric netting on the pasture WITH my dairy sheep and are brought in with the sheep at night to bed down. This fits well because they don't need the tastiest bites of grass and herbs in the pastures, so it's fine that they go in with the sheep and eat some lower and some highest quality bites.That kills two tasty birds with one stone, so to speak. They used to go into a perfectly beautiful, ready-to-graze pasture of all their own with the ducks only to make a mess and eat all the dairy quality goodies, lay a thick layer of manure down over the plants, and smash it all down with their flat feet. Yes! Now the ducks and turkeys are in tractors on pasture and the chickens have their compost-making fortress. I love when it all fits together.