We recieved five ducks from a friend who (very last minute) was moving out of state, three went to a neighbor and the male and female stayed with us. I have not seen her lay an egg (or found any on the ground of the coop) but noticed yesterday she seems to be very "rear-end" heavy and...
I was so happy when I read this, I can't wait for my husband to get him from work so I can show him .....then the icing on the cake ....I could have cried when I saw where you were from LOVE VERMONT COOKING!!!!!!
that is awsome!!! congrats and it looks great!! those boys did a great job! this was ours when DH finished with the almighty chicken warden "Daisy" on guard!
i think it depends alot on your temps. We can't/don't use sand because it just gets too cold, so deep litter works best for our winters. Come summer we do a bit of both sand and litter ( they love the sand for sand baths) and switch things up sometimes just so they have someting different...