Duck Housing for Muscovies

[Kats]

sky's the limit :

I trying to figure out the best housing set up for Muscovies. I am new to having ducks and have a trio, but am not happy with the housing I have - would like to make sure I set them up with a good coop. Anyone with ideas and/or pics they can share?
Thanks!!

I disagree with those who say leave them out. We have a zillion predators who are active at night. This is our duck barn. It is a shed that was once used to store apples.

Straw on the floor. Turn it over and add more straw if it gets smelly.

That cage structure the kids are in (which is not finished in that photo) is so that we can put water outside the barn, but accessible to birds in the barn if there's a bunch of ducklings in the barn. (Adults don't need water at night.) There are 2 windows you can't see on the right side of the barn with hardware cloth over the openings so they can be left open at night.

I get them in by rattling dog food in a tin can and then sprinkling it in the barn. For some reason they love it and come running from all over to be locked up. Mark you, I started this when our first Muscovies were only a couple of months old, so they have all been trained up to it.

Another reason for locking them up at night is that hens seem to lay at about 9 am more than any other time and I want to be able to find the eggs, so I leave them in until 10 am.

I love, love, love my Muscovies. Good luck with them. But I do advise training them up in good habits from the start.​

 

[chickensioux]

Here is where my 2 muscovies and my 1 Khaki live.

 

[sky's the limit]

Thanks for all the ideas. We are planning to insulate whatever we build - firstly because we are concerned about the really cold weather (they may be able to tolerate extreme cold, but not sure how well they would do in -30C!!). Secondly, they'll eat less feed if they don't have to keep themselves quite as warm.

Chick-a-dee...I had a look at your website, and it sounds like your farm is the type of farm we're trying to get started with! Good luck!!

 

[pigpig]

Here is where my 2 muscovies and my 1 Khaki live.

 

[pigpig]

Hello, how do U deL with the duck piop in this set up? Thanks! I'm new.

Here is where my 2 muscovies and my 1 Khaki live.

 

[chickensioux]

As I recall, I didn't have to do anything with their poop outside of their little house. Just changed their bedding in their house as needed. Which, with ducks, is often. I now have 23 ducks and a very large enclosure. Which we clean very, very often still. Welcome!