Garden Machinery
Garden Leisure
- Greenhouse Heaters
- Loungers
- Midgeaters
- Gas Barbecues
- Charcoal Barbecues
- Masonry Barbecues
- Furniture Sets
- Benches
- Greenhouses
- Water and Light
- Garden Sheds
- Gazebos
- Firepits
- Wildlife Boxes
- Rock and Stone
- Weather Vanes
- Rabbit Hutches
- Urns & Planters
- Sundials
- Birdbaths
- Garden Swings
- Climbing Frames
- Croquet Sets
- Wildlife Cameras
- Bird Feed
Develop your garden.
Livestock Gardens
Keeping any form of livestock requires careful consideration. You must ensure that your garden or plot of land will adequately meet the needs of the animals you are planning to keep.
There are many choices, some of the more usual are chickens, hens, goats, and rabbits. The following brief guides are design to help get an understanding of the basic upkeep and care requirements for your livestock gardening plans.
You should also seek professional advice from suppliers in your local area, they will be able to help you with any specific questions that you may have.
Feeding Ducks
Diet varies depending on the time of year and the conditions under which your birds are kept. If ducks are genuinely free-range they will find most of their own food. This will include a lot of slugs and worms and insects found in the grass and around your plot of land.
It will also include greens, such as grass and duck-weed. You should provide a pond for ducks, as this will also be a good food source for them. You will need to have a considerable sized garden if you are planning to keep ducks, and if they are free range, you need to ensure that their safety from predators is adequately met.
The best all-round food is wheat. Large wild fowl sanctuaries tend to use wheat as the staple diet for the ducks that they have visiting, where it is usually fed in the water, at the water's edge. Wheat contains more protein than maize, and is higher in vitamin B. There is little point in buying 'mixed corn' which is basically wheat grains and split maize. The only real benefit of maize is in very cold weather when it provides extra calories and oil that may help to keep the feathers supple and waterproof in winter.
If your ducks are laying, they will benefit from pellet feed (with additional calcium and phosphorus). It is a good idea to mix pellets in with the usual corn feed.
