Re: Non swimming ducks

Jill wrote:
Thinking of some of the more unusual queries I get here I have one that I wonder if anyone can come up with a solution to.

2 Domestic ducks who do not want to swim!!

- lovely large garden
- lovely vast pond which is clean and inviting
- easy access
- no disturbance
- happy healthy birds
- love to splash in a shallow dog bed

but they do not want to go on to the water.

- been fed in the shallows
- had their dog bed taken away
- had their house moved to the water side

????

I don't have a solution, but a similar situation. For almost the past two months my 12 ducks and 3 geese refuse to swim in our steam. I used to have a hard time getting them out of it in the evening to roost. The only thing I can think of in my situation is that the water may be nasty because of all of the farm chemicals running off the fields now. Lately the farmers upstream have really been spraying fungicides, before that they were really laying on the herbicides and fertilizers.

How about trying a floating decoy?

Nicholas
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