Building A Duck House

Would you buy this house?

  • Yes

    Votes: 1 7.1%
  • No

    Votes: 13 92.9%

  • Total voters
    14
Even temporary housing should be bigger. It should be at least 2x the size of the duck and predator proof. Also how do you plan to get the ducks to go in there?
It's just over 50 cm across and 80 cm tall. At first we used food to tempt her inside but I'm not really using it as we have a converted children's playhouse which works well and this was just for my coursework.
 
We just built are duck house because finding a duck house for ducks is very difficult. I understand your Doug this for a project and want feed back, so here it goes. I would be willing to spend about $150 on a really nice duck house... my husband built are house for less though, so that's better. These are our first ducks so I talked to lots of people and researched before building. I have to agree with everyone else in that I would not buy this duck house. We were told to make the house easy to clean, if it's just for night time they don't need a ton of space, but enough to move around comfortably. Ours is the size of a large dog house.
I am glad someone is thinking about affordable duck house designs. Yours looks good for predictors, but it's really small and looks like the duck wouldn't be able to move, also the door.... but that's been said. With ducks being so social if I had one on eggs I might just try to fence off part of the house or make a second one close by. I think being trapped in such a small space alone would be scary for any animal and might cause the duck to scramble around and maybe crush the eggs.
We were also told it's good to have the duck house a little off the ground with some wire on the bottom covered with straw so that they won't sit in their spilt water and poop. I don't see how water could fit in your house and it looks like the duck would be stuck sitting in it's own filth with no space to move. I hope you are able to take all these suggestions and build a great duck house because there is definitely a market for good, easy to build duck houses!
 

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