Chickens and ducks in same coop???

[THunter]

Never said folks shouldn't love their ducks or the mess, just not me. Now where's my shotgun! Come on September.

 

[dipence71]

Ok I tried them in the chicken coop and it is just not going to work

. Way too messy and making chicken coop stink

. So had DH drag an old(not real old and has shingled roof and siding on it more of a "mini house" that DH built that used leftovers from our house so it looks like our house too lol) into the run and made a latching door on it and now I have a mini duck house

lol sooo no more coop being a mess. Now just have to figure out how to clean it out without crawling in myself lol.....

 

[stabley1991]

I had 6 ducklings in with my chickens and the chickens pecked at one of them and ended up making a big hole in its head and now its blind

So we had to separate them.

 

[Sooner Chic-en]

I must have the most angelic ducks and chickens, they love each other..... btw I LOVE my ducks! I can't imagine how anyone could kill or eat one.... breaks my heart

 

[Kats]

I have 43 5-week old chicks and 25 3-week old ducklings in the barn together because we are being slow getting the chicken coop built. No water in the barn. It lives in a verandah annex. The birds spend all day outside in an electronet enclosure.

 

[randytheeggman]

I put 2 male ducks in with my 8 chickens and the ducks constantly harrassed the ducks so they stopped laying and the ducks eventually killed 2 of the hens. I then trie female ducks and everyone gets along but the ducks added alot of work to the operation due to thier mess.

 

[aBRG2far]

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I just tried putting them together and the chicks kept pecking at the poor ducklings feet and light spot on its bill so I seperated them before real damage was done.

 

[LilbitChicken]

We have our ducks with our chickens....but they are happy together,

and we don't want to seperate them. No food or water in our enclosed coop though.....JUST in the run.

 

[Duck Keeper]

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You have every right to your own opinion, but you ARE on a forum for DUCK LOVERS.

Therefore, you also may want to consider keeping these type of things to yourself.

 

[aBRG2far]

I had to make a partition seperating the two groups. Not the best but it will do for now.

The Brahma still wants to be a bad neighbor but now they can get away. They're a Swedish Blue and Khaki Campbell.