[hellraiser]

wish to get a pair of ducks that can roam free in my large veg patch, a breed that will not destroy the veg but get rid of the garden pests, i an all organic.
Helen

[Chookster]

big welcome to here - i can't help you but they're great guys on here and someone will be along soon with some advice

[noshed]

I'm no expert but I think you might be looking for magic ducks. As far as I understand it they are prone to wrecking the joint.

[SarahJC]

My niece has call ducks (which I'm soon to see in the flesh, sorry, feather!  ). They don't seem to do any damage from what I've heard from my sister (who loves her garden). They are rather noisy though :blink:.She does have a mallard drake though who now and again dead heads the flowers, when they are nowhere near ready for dead heading  . I suppose he's trying though bless him 

[janet12000]

I'm no expert either but my 2 khaki campbells did a very good job of eating everything in sight when I first let them out into the garden.
Sweet peas, dahlias, chard, salad all went. They ate the leaves off the spuds and when they had finished with the leaves they dug up the baby spuds (just for fun....they never ate them). They even got to stuff that was netted. 
The only thing they have ignored are the beans and the carrots so far.....
............and as for the grass!!!! 

[Vember]

My niece has call ducks (which I'm soon to see in the flesh, sorry, feather!  ). They don't seem to do any damage from what I've heard from my sister (who loves her garden). They are rather noisy though :blink:.

I have calls and they do just as much damage as the other ducks    Holes appear in the lawn where you'd least expect them and muddy pools follow those, they eat or at least try everything in sight and boy are they noisy

Gotta love the little cuties     

Sarah

[matilda duck]

Ducks and greenery don't go ........well not if you want the greenery to live!!!!  Ducks love any plants!!
Just ask Roll Roll about his precious Peony...think Sarah duck pretending to be Ermintrude

You will not be able to keep duck and vegs together!!!!!

[Foxy]

Ducks and greenery don't go ........well not if you want the greenery to live!!!!  Ducks love any plants!!
Just ask Roll Roll about his precious Peony...think Sarah duck pretending to be Ermintrude

You will not be able to keep duck and vegs together!!!!!

oh poor Roll Roll!

[matilda duck]

oh poor Roll Roll!

I did that too!!!!

[Kate and her Ducks]

I have a veg patch and ducks and both really benefit from the other. But not together!!!

The veg patch is fenced off with a little chicken wire fence. The ducks have the run of the lawn during the summer and any spare veg/greenery goes their way. In the winter they are penned in the veg patch as they make the lawn too muddy and they clear the patch beautifully, fertilize it and clear and slugs, snails and their eggs and I really have very little problem slug damage since I have had ducks even though they are not actually in the veg patch. The veg is watered with water from their little pond that needs cleaning out regularly and everything grows like wildfire!

Left in the veg patch they will destroy EVERTHING but you can have a veg patch and ducks and they both do really well.

[Roll Roll]

oh poor Roll Roll!

I did that too!!!!

I can read you know

[SarahJC]

I think my sister must have got off lightly with her daughters call ducks then  Her mallard is one for attacking people though, before he had his lady call ducks he used to try and get 'friendly' with my sisters arms  :blink: You should have seen the bruises  He's still one for nipping at legs and my sister says she has to walk up the garden looking like she's messed herself 

Boy do they make a racket though  I've heard them while talking on the phone to my sister. One of them shrieks, but they think she has poor eyesight and she panics now and again 

They do look like real cuties though