Slugs Taste Like Chocolate... to a Duck
There are many reasons to choose ducks for your backyard, especially if you have a slug problem. Come learn the many reasons why we chose ducks over chickens.
If you garden under plastic, enlist ducks to clean up slugs and other pests in between plantings of crops.
Leopard slug: a favorite duck treat.
Our slug problem -- before ducks.
Backyard ducks are very social and incredibly curious animals, but can sometimes try to steal the show.
Unfazed by cold weather, ducks are cold-hardy birds.
Duck egg, left, versus a commercial chicken egg, right.
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I got queasy just looking at the pictures of those slugs! We had chickens that would eat them & we also had a duck at one time. He was so sweet & friendly, we decided to get his siblings (2 of them) for company. What a mistake! He went from being friendly & sweet to a total nightmare! I say "he" but don't know if it was male or female but he hated us after we got his sibs - the 3 would run from us, & kill our koi in the pond with their heavy waste. We gave them to my brother who had a lake for them to swim in without killing any fish! I'd try 1 again, but no more than that.
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Duck eggs are SO YUMMY!!! I too would pick ducks over chickens. :)
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