Jim, again thanks for your great info., it was very much appreciated. Update, I followed the plan and it worked great. The ducks and geese are now on the island swimming the lake eating the weeds, waterlillies etc and sleeping back on the island at night. I'm "mother goose" so when I bring out the feed to the island, the fowl swim up beside the water bike looking for the hand out of corn and lettuce/cabbage etc. The family loves their company. I bought 10 more ducks that where about the same age that I didn't already have, some chocolate muscovys and muscovy/pekin cross (didn't know they readily did that). I'm hoping with the larger numbers of muscovys that maybe next year I can gather the embden geese,rouen and pekin eggs and put them under the muscovys to hatch and raise as their own. The research I read muscovys are very good brooders of their eggs and young???? Time will tell.....The 24 birds are indeed bringing in other wild ducks and geese to the lake, just last night we had some 100+ Canadian geese vist the area and giving us all that free pond fertilizer to my very clear and infertile lake. HA!HA! Question, at some point I will nedd to find a happy number for all these fowl and the 17+ areas of surface water? Is there a number per acre formula to consider when that time comes? Thanks from the father goose.....
Rowly
