Duck Pen Flooring

@vlapinta yes, I use food grade DE.
@KHoward Last winter I was out there shoveling, scraping, and scattering straw, but then I realized that the ducks just pretty much went where they felt anyway, so I quit all that nonsense about halfway thru. My ducks last year were perfectly fine. That being said, my ducks do have 4 snow-free sheltered areas to hang out. But now this year, 2 of my ducks have some nasty Bumblefoot going on. So might be related.
 
Thank you Holly,

The only snow free area is their laying/sleeping box (3x4 for 3 Campbell's) but I have a much larger chicken coop so I could put them in with the chickens if needed so they have room to walk around, but I hate co-mingling them because of the mess they make on the floor with the water. Right now the chicken coop is dry and I would like to keep it that way.

So maybe this winter I will put some straw down in the pen area to give them relief. I want to be reasonable, I just don't want to be cruel.

~Kristen
 

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