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News updates on the ducks.
- Lettuce diet changes.
The ducks I watch after,
since 7-8 years now, are true tenders of a wild meadow.
They have drawn back
their efforts in pathway constructions,
since the lettuce feeding has
stopped.
Which is strange, as one
would think the opposite,
with more tending to wild grasses without
the lettuce.
As of now they have
changed their habits back to the water
from the change in diet. Over
a years time with no extra lettuce feeding.
They are swimming more
often now, and thusly keeping themselves cleaner also.
- Night calls to frogs and toads.
As I also sleep in the same quarters as
the ducks,
I have the opportunity to listen intently to their extravagances in speech.
For several years, the ducks "ribbit" call to the
frogs in the very early morning,
around 4 to 5 o'clock, one to two hours before sunrise.
The calls are as if they are swimming
on or near a pond
and frog cooing to secure their breakfast.
Total frog calls.
This frog singing-to happens once every
3 weeks, that I have awaken too. They may be ribbitting on other
mornings, while I am sleeping, and I missed the event.
Certainly this is an incredible
information,
for duck and frog specialists out there.
That they lure their prey to friendship and or mating calls, to eat them.
Perhaps this duck call was witnessed and/or heard by indians and indigenous persons eons ago, as a method to hunt for prey.
3. Indoor Cleanliness.
They respond to potty training overnight, if the following conditions are met.
a. They sleep on a clean non-smelling
straw base.
(Over-covering their accidents with
straw, works on the odd nights they foul their bedding.)
b. No loud aggressive noises or loud
physical actions nearby from humans.
Even fast walking can disturb them.
If the bedding is not cleaned they
regress,
and they quickly give up from having clean bedding, fouling it.
Perhaps their bodies are too bizarre to
maintain in a small nightly confine,
if it is dirty.
The straw bedding is fouled it if 'smells' dirty
or
their past fertilization events were there.
Straw can be from bales or racked from the wild meadow grasses,
which is softer and more of a floss straw.
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I have also witnessed the catching of a
large fish, which was unusual,
as to be pelicans all of a sudden,
The chickens cannot seem to stop
defouling during the night, though.
Only the ducks.
**Warning though on keeping them near the chickens at night,
as they are territorial,
they may kill a hen who takes their chosen bedding location.
Always give the chickens a higher ground to perch on.
**Warning though on keeping them near the chickens at night,
as they are territorial,
they may kill a hen who takes their chosen bedding location.
Always give the chickens a higher ground to perch on.
