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Food scraps in the coop
Just looking for some insight and points of view from all of you amazing folks here. My 8 ladies are mostly free range (share a pasture with the goats during the day) and their 8x10 coop is built into the barn with a pop door that leads out into the pasture. The coop floor is concrete with pine...- J.R.
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- Forum: Coop & Run - Design, Construction, & Maintenance
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Ventilation for coop inside of barn
Hey everyone, We’ve decided to add chickens to our ever growing list of animals and have started building a coop inside of our barn. The coop will be 10x8 and has a (roughly) 7’ high ceiling. The top 3’ of the walls will be hardware cloth, everything else will be solid wood. I’m having a hard...- J.R.
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- coop ventilation
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- Forum: Coop & Run - Design, Construction, & Maintenance
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Any Insight?
My two Rouens ( both drakes ) will not leave their coop. It’s been three days now and while I’m not overly concerned as they have food and water in with them, I am curious about it. I’ve checked the plentiful mud in their run and I don’t see any tracks besides theirs. Do you think maybe they had... -
Is anyone familiar with this?
Has anyone dealt with this sort of feather loss? Over the last couple of weeks one of my Rouen Drakes has started losing large amounts of feathers around his bill and eyes. He doesn’t seem to be having any other issues, he’s eating well,preening after swimming in their pond, and isn’t lethargic... -
Preformed Pond Liner
Hey everyone, I’m hoping for a little guidance from anybody who uses preformed pond liners for their pond. After about a year of hand bailing water daily out of a baby pool I decided to look for something less labor intensive yet larger for my two Rouens. To that end I bought a 145 gallon... -
Winter is right around the corner!
So I suppose it's time for someone about to go through their first winter with ducks to ask a cold weather related question..... might as well be me! I'm curious if anybody feeds their ducks a warm "soup" in the winter? I've seen some websites that talk about it, but I'm curious if anybody on... -
Ducks not eating much
Last week I adopted two 5 month old Rouen drakes from a gentleman looking to reduce his flock. This is my first experience with ducks so I'm a little unsure about some things. The previous owner told me that he fed them Nutrena All Flock once a day so, to avoid changing their food, I went and... -
New duck folks
After much hemming and hawing, we decided to get ducks as backyard pets. We really don't have any interest in daily egg hunts so we only have drakes. I spent a lot of time on here doing research and finding answers to questions that came up and was never disappointed with the content. I'll no...- J.R.
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A great big thank you.
I just want to take a minute to thank each and every person who has ever asked or answered a question about ducks on BYC. We decided to adopt a couple of ducks for pets and I spent hours on here researching everything from housing to feed. Because of this community I feel confident that I was as...