Having ducks on your property can be a very entertaining and enjoyable experience, until it isn’t, your ducks don’t mind pooping anywhere and everywhere and they will, including on your driveway.
This article explores how to stop ducks from pooping on your driveway.
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How to stop ducks from pooping on the driveway
No one wants duck poop all over their driveway, ducks poop a lot, these birds can poop up to 96 times a day pooping every 20 minutes or so. That’s a lot of poop.
Here is how to keep the duck poop from getting on your driveway;
Duck diapers:
A duck diaper is a surefire way to make sure that your duck doesn’t poop in your driveway and doesn’t poop on anyone else for that matter.
If you decide to use this on your bird then you should make sure that the diaper fits snugly on the bird but not so snugly that the diaper is too tight on the bird.
Duck diapers can be made or bought and will catch your bird’s poop as the birds wear them throughout the day. You’d need to remove the diaper for some time during the day to allow the bird to successfully preen itself
Wind chimes:
If you don’t mind the sound of wind chimes as you drive up to your driveway then you can use these tools to keep ducks away and keep them from popping on your driveway
Ducks can hear, and there are sounds that ducks don’t like to hear, like the sound of wind chimes. The birds also don’t like light in their eyes, wind chimes will reflect light into the bird’s eyes.
These chimes can be hung anywhere around your driveway and you can set them up in a way that looks good in your driveway
Mirrors:
If skillfully installed, mirrors can be used in and around your driveway to keep ducks away. You can hang small mirrors at the fence of your driveway or in tree branches near your driveway.
The birds will be deterred by the light reflected by the mirrors in their eyes.
In addition, if the birds look at themselves in the mirror, then they will think that there is another bird in the area which causes them to think that there is no food left in the area and forcing the birds to leave keeping your driveway poop free.
Predator birds:
Birds may be prey to humans but ducks are prey to predator birds. Predator birds include owls and hawks, ducks know that owls and hawks are higher up on the food chain than them so they do their best to avoid owls and hawks.
You can use this fear of owls and hawks to keep ducks away from your driveway. Install a moving hawk or hawk, ones that create sounds if you can find one, around your driveway.
When ducks see and hear these false owls and hawks they will become frightened and will do their best to keep away from the predator birds and thus do their best to keep away from your driveway.
If you can’t get a fake owl or hawk that makes noises and moves then you’d have to move the fake bird yourself.
You can also use other predator animal statues or toys and keep these around your driveway to keep the birds away. Try to get fake predator toys and statues that move and make noises.
Scarecrow kite:
This works on the same principle as the last, by using predators to keep ducks away, but this solution works in the form of a kite
Using a kite that has a realistic image of a hawk on the underside will scare ducks away from your driveway
Install this kite close to your driveway and let the wind do all the work for you. When the wind blows it will seem as though a bird of prey is flying overhead. Installing more than one kite is recommended.
If the kite is on a stake then you need to install the kite quite high, higher than ducks can fly if you can manage it.
Get a dog:
Dogs like to play around and have fun with ducks, ducks on the other hand don’t find this to be a very fun activity. Getting a dog will keep ducks away from your driveway.
If you can, try to keep your dog in the general area of your driveway, doing this will keep your ducks from wandering into this area and popping on your driveway.
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