Best Ground Cover For Ducks. You can also section off part of the pen periodically and plant grass or leafy greens such as kale collards spinach chard dandelions etc. Sign up with your local tree service but be prepared to take an entire truckload if they come by.
If you find a list of deer resistant plants you can pretty well assume that they are also duck resistant plants. Make sure that the wood chips are nice and flat allowing the eglu and netting to sit snugly against the ground. Get some pea gravel.
If they have a good supply of plants that they like to eat I have found they will do less damage to some of the landscaping plants that they might otherwise have at.
If you find a list of deer resistant plants you can pretty well assume that they are also duck resistant plants. English chamomile or Roman chamomile. I was so sick and tired of the mud pit and filthy ducks and the smell. You can also section off part of the pen periodically and plant grass or leafy greens such as kale collards spinach chard dandelions etc.