This is only my second year with ducks and my Buff started laying on her eggs around the 28th of June. Soon one of the runners joined her in kind of a nanny role and now they have quite the nest going. It's in a fenced pen (2x4 fencing with chicken wire running 12" up) right NEXT to the...
Well, we've done some improvements to the duck pen. I did get some netting on top, although I'm not super happy with the quality. Money constrants kept me from buying the heavy duty netting that I wanted, but so far this seems to be effective. My older ducks, a buff and two mallards, have...
This is the duck house I built two years ago. Most all the material was free and collected over several years. I had built a couple playhouses years ago so became pretty good at scrounging up remodeling leftovers and dump diving. The walls are pallet wood and the decorative tin roof peak is...
Hi everyone. I have been lurking here off and on for a while. My name is Kathy and I live in NW Kansas. We live on 20 acres just outside of a tiny town and are trying to be more involved in being self sufficient. With the kids grown up and having moved away, my husband suddenly among the...
This is probably a bad way to start in here as I can tell that many of you feel your chickens are family, but I wondered if anyone ever gets chicks in the spring, keeps them until fall, then either sells or butchers the entire flock for the winter (then begins again in the spring).
Hi. :) My name is Kathy and I've been following you for a while on facebook. What an amazing site! I should first say how glad I am to have found you.
My husband and I live in the northwest corner of Kansas on a 20 acre plot at the edge of a small town. In an effort to be a bit more self...