Bruce's Journal

Hopefully with the daylight hours getting longer they will pick up some for ya both....tho, during the fridgid temps ours slowed down....except for the khakis, they are still putting them out....:)
 
I'm staying away from ducks mostly because I don't want to deal with their winter water needs. Plus they would have to be housed separately from the chickens so they don't foul the chickens' water. But I bet they would love the pond behind the barn in the non freezing months.
 
I know I go a bit overboard with the water for the ducks, but our locale is usually accepting of what we do....but, if I were in a more northern and colder locale they would be limited during the frigid months to only having it during the daylight hours. The only reason for them to have water at night is if pellets or feed is available to them....if ya take the feed away at night, then no water is necessary. This would cut the water demands greatly and would lessen the amount of ice that would have to be dealt with....but on days above freezing I would still give them a pool or tub to swim in cause they truly Love it and it is very entertaining to watch them in it.....ours have been in it at 21° after we busted the ice on top and removed the chunks....crazy little beasts they are....:love
 
Keeping them in water in winter is my concern too! Maybe in the future. If we had a pond, it’d be a done deal!
Don't know about where you are but our pond freezes pretty much solid. It is really shallow, I'm not sure how the frogs and fish manage to stay alive each winter.
 
We are in Southern Indiana. We had polar freezes in 2014 then not enough to really even freeze the top of anything until this year. We live very close to the Ohio River and it actually got icy this year. A century ago it froze solid enough that they drove horses across it! (I thought I got a pic and I didn’t.)
 
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