in today's video we have a little experiment ducks are gonna do garden
cleanup
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so I'm in the process of harvesting the last of our garden we got some straggler
Brussels sprouts there's a couple of pumpkins barn cat maybe a little bit of
kale left over but let's face it our garden is done for the year
no more growing no more food I hope you got it all in jars of the freezer but it
ain't coming fresh anymore we've already had two snows and so it's
done my plan is tomorrow I'm gonna actually have the Ducks
take over so what I'm gonna do is this so that's their duck house right out
there and what I'm gonna do is drive them along this shoot that I built and
herd them into the garden and then they're gonna use the garden as their
playpen for the next couple of days the goal is to have the Ducks get one good
meal of fresh green stuff before their winter diet gets a little bit more
flooring I also want them to poop all over the place and help fertilize the
garden for next year I'm also hoping that they might root around and look for
some insects that might have nested in the soil and have gone dormant for the
winter the idea being they can eat those guys and reduce our pest problems next
year so let's see how this experiment goes
you're doing a little something different today Gary yeah
there we go no reason to get freaked no reason to get freaked
it's all good something just totally startled these guys so they're a little
skittish right now they don't necessarily like the new setting which
is understandable I thought it was gonna be a real pain in the butt trying to get
these guys into the garden space could that actually worked out pretty well I'm
gonna hold off on giving them their grain this morning and a hope that it
will encourage them to eat more of the vegetables and leafy stuff right now I'm
starting to see them peck around let's see how these guys do just left on their
own for a bit
so it's been about two hours now and I'm just checking on the Ducks they look
like they're doing pretty good
you can see feather scattered here oops let's start to eat some of the kale down
that's for sure I actually see they've been digging in
here poking around looking for bugs
whoo well the weather certainly has taken a turn for the worse
it's been pouring rain all afternoon so let's go bring the ducks in and then we
can go see what sort of effect they've had on the garden let's do this all
ducks go to bed all ducks go to bed all ducks go to bed
Oh ducks go to bed Oh ducks go to bed all ducks go to bed
all ducks go to bed Oh ducks go to bed
Oh duh go to bed all ducks go to the game
all ducks oh hey whoo whoa wrong way guys not Fred good deer
hey all ducks go to bed all ducks go to bed all ducks go to bed all dogs go to
bed all ducks go to bed there we go
you were very well-behaved though hey stay back woo that was perhaps not the
smoothest putting them to bed but it actually worked out pretty well I was
really worried that lil was gonna go pounce on him but she behaved herself
she was a good cat ya know you can definitely see an impact they've cleaned
up a lot of stuff still some of the higher kale you can see like the lower
kale they've just totally nailed that down you see those little holes right
here boom is one there is one there that's from the Ducks going in they're
probably looking for insects so that's some good impact - they really did a
number on these Brussels sprouts and broccoli like you can really see it like
they were in here I'll probably end up putting the ducks
back in there again tomorrow hopefully the weather clears up a little the more
that they work in there the better it is for the garden for next year if you guys
want to see how I trained our ducks to go to bed when I tell them to watch this
video right here or you can watch something else or as
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