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gixxerific
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Check out this link Paul Wheaton posted elsewhere on a slug garden. Same basic premise, it was first desinged to keep slugs off the plants but is being planned to have I bleive it was ducks. Pretty good vid with good ideas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HirUchhRX4c

DoubleDogFarm
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Dono,

That was a fun video. It must have been taken on a cool day. It was a bit nipply out.

I'm a member of elsewhere, but have not posted.

Here are some pictures of the duck moat in progress. Taken in the dark, sorry.
Inner fence
[img]https://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/eric_wa/Duck%20Moat%20Sept%202011/DuckMoat002.jpg[/img]
Duck yard and future duck house
[img]https://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/eric_wa/Duck%20Moat%20Sept%202011/DuckMoat003.jpg[/img]

Eric

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To Eric,

Did you complete your duck moat project?

caverdude
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wonder how well geese would work. And they might keep the deer out? Of course for deer the mote doubles as a deer fence. That is if you keep the fences about 4' apart. Deer won't like to jump up over 4 feet and down. And they might not like jumping in the middle between the fences either. Especially if you cover them with deer netting.

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I also like the idea of dividing your garden into paddocks and allowing the birds to work different areas at times. Like resting periods. Or during green manure growing periods.



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