RE: getting ready for the ducks
It's just corn but the ducks seem to like it. Some years it takes them a couple of weeks to find it after I flood it, though last year the first ones were in 24 hours after I started pumping in the water. The only year the pond never worked as planned was when I planted tropical corn. How they could tell the difference I don't know but they wouldn't even come in and look at it. Because of some massive rains I had toplant the pond late and tried the tropical corn since it makes faster. Avoid that stuff like the plague!