Ducks for Pest Management in the Garden

[@3FeathersFarmstead]

That's the way to do it! It works with chickens...why not ducks? They probably just don't scratch it up as much.

[@GoldShawFarm]

They don't scratch, but they do a little digging with their bills. They were great little workers on this task.

[@yourdadsotherfamily3530]

How is the cat with them?? I heard from other people that neighborhood or rural barn cats would kill their ducks

[@davelawson2564]

@@yourdadsotherfamily3530 when they brought up together and cat see ducks as his masters pets, cat will not attack. other cats/dogs will

[@alvexok5523]

@@GoldShawFarm , hope the ducks don't mess up too much of your garden with their bills, or you'll have a bill Lol

[@FrugalFarmerChannel]

@@alvexok5523,,,If they tear up too much you can put the damage on their bill.

[@megandaniels907]

Ducks are the best garden helpers! I don't have as many ducks as you, but I built my duck house and run into the garden. They spend all winter with access to the garden to eat all the weeds I was too lazy to pull and find all the bugs for me. In the past when I only had 2 ducks, they lived in the garden full time during the summer after my plants were established. Since the don't scratch like chickens, they don't dig up the plants. And if I lose a head of lettuce or some green beans to them it's no big deal, they deserve a treat for all the work they do in the garden for me. They did a great job keeping the bugs off the plants. Great video!

[@GoldShawFarm]

Thanks, Megan. I'm really looking forward to the spring and planting out in the garden. I bet you are, too!

[@alvexok5523]

@@GoldShawFarm , I remember when I was 11, and my grandfather used to take me to feed the ducks, and I remember him saying "don't feed the geese or I won't give you anymore bread to throw", it was because the geese would keep trying to get the bread crumbs from the ducks. I enjoyed spending time with my grandparents, may they now R.I.P.

[@ShogunHull]

BRAVO! THANK YOU FOR SHARING THAT TIDBIT. YOU ANSWERED A QUESTION FOR ME. THANK YOU.

[@Hassaan911]

When you started saying “all ducks to go to bed” and they followed your command I was amazed. Till they went the wrong side... then I burst into laughter. 🤣

[@janiefox3458]

Nothing funnier than a Peking duck in a hurry. I am enjoying your videos so much. I'm too old to even think of having some, so I live vicariously through you 2.

[@johnpapa8681]

I think this is smart. I wish we as a country would break our dependence on chemicals as much as possible.

[@EASTSIDERIDER707]

Geese were used for weed and insect control in cotton near Fresno in the 80’s New growth weeds follow the frequent irrigation. Geese go where tractors can’t

[@321stfulbyisilb6]

The poor white ducks they are so slow and wobbly

[@GoldShawFarm]

They are the comic relief. We adopted them from somebody and they showed up fat and out of shape. They are getting better, but still...

[@th3h3rmitgirl49]

They are thicc lol

[@holgerd5242]

Maybe their white privilege is weighing them down...

[@tanveersingh5423]

@@holgerd5242 damn...u know whats better than funny? dark and funny...i give you for that

[@101fairplay]

@@holgerd5242 hahahahaha

[@chandranapier2259]

I’ve owned ducks before and I can vouch they are great for pests. I had a hen duck that we would pick up and take around our rural home to pick slugs off the wall.

[@coopboulton]

I don't know if they're more effective than chickens but they are certainly more adorable

[@MargaretMargaretMargaret]

The white ducks waddling was so freaking cute!!!!!!!!!!!

[@louisegogel7973]

I too live in Vermont, and at the moment (5:10) that he said it has been pouring rain, it started to downpour outside where I am... August 29, 2020 5:45 am....lol. Permaculture principles include working with the skills and ways of Nature so they work for you just ny being themselves! Go chickens, go ducks!

[@richardvaldes3959]

Release the quaken!!!

[@alvexok5523]

They also should have ducks in a field growing the wheat used to make quackers

[@gladiator8325]

Lol

[@constancemiller3753]

WHOOOOO! THE QUACKEN!

[@constancemiller3753]

OMG tshirt!??? yes please!

[@youtubeisajoke2546]

Nuuuuuuuuu!!

[@Junkmail-n4z]

I am so happy to still be around(heart issue) and see you guys are still striving

[@buckbuchanan9807]

When the ducks shot past the door... I thought, oh man it's about to get really exciting! Glad your herding skills were up to the task.

[@GoldShawFarm]

Ha...a few months ago, I would have been hosed. But I have had a lot of practice at this point.

[@kerrybiery6360]

Hi. Love the group waddle! And it was hilarious to see them forage as one big unit- like watching a ballet. Too cute! -KGB

[@HoboGotCash]

KGB? The Soviet Union?

[@anitraahrens905]

Great idea, Morgan! A very efficient way to get ducks to clean up the garden and prepare for a new planting season.

[@Tascaraudo]

Thank you for creating these videos. It's a joy to watch the ducks and geese, and to have you explain your thought processes.

[@raebells]

If you sprayed it with water they would go to town on all that stuff.

[@docautrisim885]

I’ve had the same experience. Wet earth is a ducks dreamland !

[@TheM1cK3y]

Why does that work?

[@circa134]

They dig thier bills thru mud to feel for worms and stuff

[@estellar8186]

Our Duck Zeke just last week was attacked & killed 😓 something got into his cage & your videos are bittersweet. We rescued him with a broken foot kayaking this summer on my birthday. Got him healed up. He was THE BEST. Followed us around everywhere. Hung out in the bathtub with the kids. HE had just started laying eggs (so SHE) the week before...miss her so much. We really thought it was a boy.

[@Theultrazombiekiller]

We have a huge backyard in Texas, a 3/4 acre backyard homestead (in city limits) and this past year we added 2 ducks to our animal collection haha. They are great, they do a better job than chickens at pest control. We have 26 raised beds and a 20 foot tunnel greenhouse, those two ducks could go through everything in about 2 days. They did eat slugs and squash bugs.

[@drloveslearning4744]

Very soothing to see Ducks clearing the winter garden...

[@Goghahahahahaeej]

0:34 where do I find Barn cat seeds, I would love to have those lol

[@sandyhill4081]

Me to

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

They come out of a barn cat’s butt. They look like sesame seeds. They don’t grow into baby barn cats though.

[@MARTINADBA1980]

Fun fact 😂: Ducks poop every 11 to 13 minutes!

[@cynthiamcwhorter6721]

Wow that's alot of poop

[@LemmePSLmyFootUpURazz]

Free fertilizer

[@iamf6641]

@Khalil Khalil its easy to study lmao

[@5ducksinakittypool563]

Wow

[@johneduardoctavianoiv9749]

Khalil Khalil Hihi

[@PetalsonthePavingSlabs]

Great to see your ducks doing this, it's food for them and its good for your garden! I liked your video editing skills on this too, really enjoyed watching this thank you.

[@GoldShawFarm]

Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it!

[@WillowCreekHomestead]

One of those white ducks was struggling to go fast enough In the beginning! HAHA!! Beautiful birds my 5 yr old said I wish we had ducks! lol the spooking in the garden so funny! I love letting them do the cleanup! ~Trish

[@GoldShawFarm]

Thanks. The pekins are definitely our comic relief!

[@ccefc_families297]

I find this video very relaxing and even entertaining. Plus the ducks are so cute and doing such a great thing for the garden.

[@de8517]

Awesome!!! Ducks can really clean out a space of bugs & greens. Great idea!

[@RockingCHomestead]

Got to love those live tillers.

[@GoldShawFarm]

They do good work!

[@leslieMClass80]

So cool how nature takes care of itself! Having your ducks clean and fertilize the garden is very interesting to learn about! Thanks! Have a good day!

[@GoldShawFarm]

So far, so good. It will be interesting to see if it helped next summer.

[@kirstenwhitworth8079]

"Release the Quacken," I like it! I usually ask, "Who let the ducks out? Bump, bum, bum, ba, bump. Who let the ducks out? " I've been doing the same thing with my flock. Bonus? They find slugs and slug eggs in the mulch. Heh heh heh. Note: try herding with a white stick - a poultry net pole is perfect, but even a white conductor's baton will do. Somehow, a white stick will get them moving in the correct direction; all I have to do is point it. I didn't have to train mine flock. If they are really skittish, I use two. Try it; you'll like it. (Works on geese, as well.)

[@GoldShawFarm]

That's a great tip about the white stick, Kirsten. I'll give it a shot at some point.

[@gypsypath1]

I second the white stick. I keep two of the plastic electric fence posts near the house and near the coop for when it’s “Time to go to bed!”

[@vanessabunnie9262]

beautiful duckies 😊 Jesus made beautiful things 😊💖

[@guasal12]

Amen!!!

[@sdushdiu]

So many great memories!!! Ducks are cool. Thanks for your great informative videos/

[@invalidghosty72]

This is actually genius because if you don’t have ducks, chickens, birds etc on your garden yiu garden will get filled up with worms, snails, maggots and more animals eat up the weeds or worms that lurk around your garden PURE GENIUS

[@eliskagray1546]

Your content is my therapy. I love your ducks and animals of any kind.

[@GoldShawFarm]

Awesome! I’m glad you’re enjoying our videos. I really appreciate your support and encouragement. Thanks!

[@ppj0241]

Even ducks don't like Kale. Smart birds.

[@annaoliviaiizuka1762]

This is probably one of my favourite videos on youtube and I dont know why

[@ogmius2001]

so this was last season, did this have a real impact on your garden?

[@sandrodz5265]

Your ducks are good. they're following you.

[@auniciasharpe7293]

LOVE the timelapse!! Those ducks are loving the garden buffet!!

[@LaoSoftware]

Your birds are adorable.

[@MysteryViv]

This was very entertaining and makes me want to add ducks to my flock. Great editing too.

[@noworriessoap5494]

What a tremendous idea. Less work for you, more menu items for the ducks, and soil improvement in the process. Thank you for sharing!

[@GoldShawFarm]

Thanks! It was a fun video to make.

[@dandelionfields6955]

I just found your channel and love it! Ducks are my number one favorite farm animal. I have 65 that free range here in zone 4. Looking forward to future videos!💕

[@heathergustafson4237]

Pigs really get into the soil and do all sorts of good things to the soil Whatever you have and make it work

[@ShogunHull]

YOU'RE DOING *SUCH A GOOD JOB* !!! I'M PROUD OF YOU. I REALLY AM!!!

[@IntegratedPestManagement]

We're doing some research with chickens in a no-till garden..gotta get some ducks! "Poking around looking for bugs" sounds great to us 😁

[@kellypawspa]

Great video, photography, music, good humor. 5 stars!

[@Thisisit120]

All ducks go to bed ha ha Ha🤣😂🤣

[@alvexok5523]

All ducks go to bed 🦆🦆🦆💤💤

[@watchanime331]

All Dogs to go to deb

[@bettertelevision968]

@@watchanime331 All cats go to bed

[@pepecocomax]

That is just great how you work with the ducks. Love all your videos.

[@GoldShawFarm]

Thank you! I am incredibly appreciative of your support and encouragement.

[@ScarletCandlelight]

Just binge watching all of your duck videos. Just love your style and take on duck raising along with I'm learning a lot. I hope you will get the duck breeds I have some day so I can learn more from another keeper. Sadly not as many educational videos on yt of my breeds. Just thought I would note that. Thank you

[@ShogunHull]

HAHAHAHAH YAH.. SO AM I !!! AAHHHAHAHAHA

[@meenha1976]

That was a cool experiment, like a verrrrry slow lawn mower, liked it in fast motion 😎

[@florianpeter7045]

Legend has it he still says „All ducks, go to bed!“

[@GoldShawFarm]

I do!

[@apollothealchemist]

Awesome footage! I’ve seen this done with chickens but never with ducks! I love it👍

[@judithbiller3732]

They've been waiting all season to get into your garden😀

[@heathert5455]

Ducks are my favorite fowl because they are usually very mellow.

[@GoldShawFarm]

They are funny, but I wouldn't necessarily call them chill.

[@yasminghani2073]

Really enjoy watching your video

[@cindyskillman544]

Haha! I noticed you waggling your fingers to turn the quacky herd. 🤣😂😅 It took me two years to figure that out. (Yeah, I'm a little slow.)

[@ginawhisnant9966]

The rain was helpful for them to be able to dig and swallow what they find. Next spring if you get a pair of goslings and pen them near the garden you can throw weeds you want to be removed to them. Geese are herbivores and will earn the tasty stuff. After a month or so when your vegetables are little bigger you can turn the geese loose in the garden and they will weed and fertilize. A good duck-herding stick is helpful. A 5 or 6-foot section of cane with a loop of plastic-coated cable attached to the thinner end- Mine was large enough to put both ends of the cable into the cane and glue it in with a wrapping of tape to secure it while it dried. The loop should be put in so that it is slightly curved, and being flexible doesn't hurt the little guys. If you make the loop just a little smaller than the ducks' bodies you can use it as a safe catchpole in case you need to catch one to medicate or clip its wings.

[@dogcatparty7371]

General Public: Please learn to use Permaculture techniques for a healthy garden.

[@davidschmidt270]

👏👏👏✨🔥🎉🍻💥💯💯💯

[@jeffery19677]

A fan of Jack Spirko, huh? (All ducks, go to bed.) I think this is a great idea for maintaining your garden area. I will do that when I get my "retirement" homestead. Perhaps keep the ducks on the garden during the day all winter? (Weather permitting, of course.)

[@RoseThistleArtworks]

Release the Quacken. hee hee I love your duck herding cat, too. She did a good job heading them off at the door.

[@silasderoma4726]

Release the Quacken! Thanks for this video. My kids wait for your signature duck calls!

[@GoldShawFarm]

Glad they enjoy it. Thank you!

[@Infinite8blue]

I just spend over 2 hours binging your videos

[@GoldShawFarm]

Thank you! I really appreciate that you’re watching.

[@marjoriejohnson6535]

The kale I grow gets sweeter after a few snows.abd that's when I used to put a bale or 3 of straw on the carrots then remove after snow and dig ,last time just before christmas.

[@FrugalFarmerChannel]

I do these types of experiments on my little homestead as well. Thanks for sharing!

[@sonnyxlbright5904]

The Quack Brigade.. I love 'em !!!

[@le9186]

Man, they will clean up and turn that garden like land on the moon!

[@tessdurberville711]

At bedtime, I simply pick up the female goose and the ganders follow me 😊🌷.

[@GoldShawFarm]

Interesting!

[@lucasrubinstein923]

one great thing to remember is that ducks absolutely love slugs. if you are ever having a slug problem in your garden let the ducks loose in the garden and they will seek out every last slug and stuff them selves on them.

[@USMC.OIF.Vet.]

White House on the Hill fan subscribing with you now.

[@GoldShawFarm]

Awesome! Jake and Becky rule!

[@leesantos9711]

They sure like to stay bunched up !

[@heloshark]

Well produced. Excellent content!

[@dontwren]

that just redefined the term "herdin' cats" lol

[@jimclaire7996]

Nice video, and it seems to be a nice video. God bless you, God bless America.

[@alvexok5523]

I'm always glad to see people today who still believe in God. The athiests have been bending over backwards the past few years to try and shut it all down, trying to shut down something that's been going on for thousands of years, something that major holidays like Christmas is based on, and national anthems like "God save the queen" and "God bless America", and government slogans like "In God we trust", and then there's the pope. They're trying to end all of that, trying to end so many traditions, make the whole world so unrecognizably different from how it's been continuously for numerous millenniums for shit's sake! They are so freakin itchy to want this new world to lack hope and wonder, and they're trying to have us all live in fear and hopelessness just to be "real". I say, whether it's real or not, whether they could be right for argument's sake, why are they trying to make our one time here without hope and wonder? If we are actually here just once, don't you think it would be better not to waste it throwing into other people's faces and having it constantly thrown in our faces how hopeless and ugly it all is?

[@drewbakka5265]

Idea: every year switch the duck pasture with the garden one, lettting the duck one fallow and be re-fertilized

[@ed4all33]

All ducks go to bed. Hahaha . Wish this worked with kids too. Accept for that one wrong turn , they were pretty obedient .😃

[@HaywireHomestead]

ducks and chickens are great at cleaning up the garden.

[@GoldShawFarm]

🦆🐓➕🌱🌱🌱🔁

[@anthonyappleyard5688]

Big domestic ducks are also very efficient anti-frog patrollers; frogs and their spawn are summarily dredged out and pumped down the hatch and disposed of.

[@louisegogel7973]

Anthony Appleyard Frogs eat slugs too.

[@lowfrequencyfilms]

When i see the white duckies run 👀😱😱😱😍😍😍😍😍

[@donnynapitupulu3740]

5:09 RIP earphone users

[@colenorthway8578]

I'm dead af lmao turn it up to Max volume

[@ཀཔཧངོཀཔཧཛ-ཅ9ཆ]

Donny Nebuuu my dog started barking at that exact time lol

[@dc4334]

Totally unnecessary. Why did he do that? Ugh.

[@esmeraldakitty]

I need ducks! I have a garden and the rumina decollata are aeting my potatoes, sweet potatoes, collard greens and cucumbers!!!

[@evilelfis3646]

5:50 the white ones make me laugh my buns off 😂🤣

[@GoldShawFarm]

The Puddleducks are the comedic relief.

[@monkeynumbernine]

Doing the last of the harvesting... Brussels sprouts, kale, pumpkin..barn cat. 🐈😄 Ich leibe Enten💞🤸😃

[@alvexok5523]

I didn't know brussel sprouts were grown in America very much, I thought they're grown alot more in the UK

[@greenandglamorousliving904]

Great idea to release them in the garden.

[@SilverScarletSpider]

Ducks, Cats, Chicken, Dogs. The only animals I need. I don’t want to be scraping giant cow and pig turds leave that to the giant mega farm factories with robots 😂

[@zukosmom3780]

They sure stay together as a group

[@colinbateman8233]

When I was a boy my grandfather always let one hen set with about a dozen chicks in the garden they worked as big control they where he’ll on the strawberry early but this passed

[@captainianmich1814]

The cat at the back is already hunting mice and popping

[@heracleskarpusi1716]

Those white ducks have the sassiest walks.

[@Angie.Globetrotter]

have you been at the army? shouting: ALL DUCKS GO TO BED is so funny :)

[@GoldShawFarm]

Nope...didn’t serve.

[@shwetamujumdar699]

All ducks go to bed..that was funny..I enjoy your vlogs, I'm a new subscriber and i watch your vlogs from India

[@GoldShawFarm]

Shweta Mujumdar That is awesome. I am really glad to have you watching and I appreciate you for taking the time to subscribe. You might be the first subscriber from outside of North America. (Not sure if there are others out there.)

[@shwetamujumdar699]

thank you!!

[@rfoehn5215]

"All ducks go to bed" was cute...at first... but quickly became monotonous.

[@alvexok5523]

@@rfoehn5215 , 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆💤💤💤💤💤💤💤

[@miguelvelasquez8357]

I like your channel. New subscriber here. Love from PH💕

[@littlewhitedory1]

Hey there are a lot of Quacks in this vlog! ;-) Those ducks are amazing trainers! They have taught you so well and so much! Ok, so maybe there are days where I feel the same way...why won't they just do as I want....only with my chickens not ducks!

[@GoldShawFarm]

Oh, I’m definitely well trained.

[@KC-jr6zs]

Letting them out to be in the garden helps their eggs have more nutrition too. From what I heard any way.

[@oldbaldfatman2766]

Nov. 22, 2020---Interesting video in that it answers a question I had about ducks. Watched 3 or 4 other videos about ducks, but they were being used in harvested rice fields or wine producing countries such as India/S. Africa. There, they mainly eat bugs like snails dining on grape leaves. While I can see a useful function of ducks working over ones garden at the end of the growing season, wondered if any of your ducks have literally flown the coop. Have you clipped their wings?

[@TheAdhdGardener]

😆this is why I need ducks in my life!. Bug control

[@davemi00]

Can ducks 🦆 get billable hours ?

[@dawagan1784]

I love those Tibetan wind horse prayer flags.

[@azertyi888]

The two white ducks are so havy .so making them walk like that so fast will injure there legs . Because this are pet ducks they are so sensitive to that kind of movment and its stress them . You can try to catch the 2 white duck and move them smoothly by hand .

[@mikev.5977]

poor ducks....I agree..they were struggling.

[@EllaTrigger]

That’s when Donald Duck gets in business