Show me your duck house!

[Schfam]

Hello all! I'm in the process of planning a duck house that will connect to our existing chicken run. I keep going back and forth with ideas. I'd love to see your duck houses! What do you love about your setup? Is there anything you'd do differently?

Thanks for sharing!!

 

[Evadig]

This is my Duck house and run. The roof is lifted up a little to allow for ventilation. I know there should be more but I’m not handy enough with power tools to make some.
The thing I like best about this run is ease of cleaning. I just spray down the wood and the rocks. Inside the house I stapled heavy duty weed barrier fabric; this makes it easier to clean out the shavings.
One thing I would do differently is put the food dish closer to the door so I don’t have to walk through duck droppings to get it.
The last photo is from a while back. I’ve updated everything since .

 

[Miss Lydia]

This is my largest coop

 

[Evadig]

This is my largest coop
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Oh wow!

 

[Schfam]

This is my Duck house and run. The roof is lifted up a little to allow for ventilation. I know there should be more but I’m not handy enough with power tools to make some.
The thing I like best about this run is ease of cleaning. I just spray down the wood and the rocks. Inside the house I stapled heavy duty weed barrier fabric; this makes it easier to clean out the shavings.
One thing I would do differently is put the food dish closer to the door so I don’t have to walk through duck droppings to get it.
The last photo is from a while back. I’ve updated everything since .

Thank you for sharing! It's funny that you mention putting the food closer to the door because that's a mistake I made in our chicken coop! I was planning to put vinyl on the floor if I can get scrap somewhere for ease of cleaning, but weed barrier may be a good alternative I hadn't thought of. Thank you! What is the box by their food and water used for?

 

[Schfam]

This is my largest coop
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That's gorgeous! Would love to see more!

 

[Miss Lydia]

The first one hold 11 chickens and 12 ducks and one goose the second is my Muscovy coop and the third was my goose house until our gander died and I moved the goose in with the chickens and ducks the one to the left of goose was our original chicken coop it’s just a winter hang out now

 

[Evadig]

Thank you for sharing! It's funny that you mention putting the food closer to the door because that's a mistake I made in our chicken coop! I was planning to put vinyl on the floor if I can get scrap somewhere for ease of cleaning, but weed barrier may be a good alternative I hadn't thought of. Thank you! What is the box by their food and water used for?

The box is the house they sleep in at night

 

[Schfam]

The box is the house they sleep in at night

Gotcha! I thought it was separate from the one with the roof but I looked again and now I see

 

[cheezenkwackers]