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Chickens can't swim, backyard water safety
Did you know that chickens can't swim? That's one of those things you never really have to think about though. I was looking at Summer pictures today and came across some pics of the pond in my yard. It's now just a decorative fish pond, but it didn't start that way. It started as a goose pond.About 2 years later it became a duck pond. Another year later and we were done with waterfowl completely! The original goose house, now the duck house soon became the d'Uccle house. The fence was moved to the other side of the pond to remove it from the enclosure. The banty's moved in and all was well for a long time. Or so I thought. I chronicled the transformation from goose pool to fish pond on my other blog.
After awhile I learned that chickens can't swim. AT ALL. It's not like I ever thought they could, I just didn't think they absolutely couldn't! It was a very painful lesson. Lets go back to when the pond looked like this:
That's deer netting across the top of it. It worked perfectly all spring and summer. Most of the frogs couldn't get through it which made it easy to scoop them out every day. The netting kept the frogs from eating the comets and Shubunkin's I had populated the pond with also. The whole time that netting was on I didn't see one wet chicken. The neighbors dog fell in, but that's another story all together!
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