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    PNW rainy climate and optimizing deep litter run construction

    I'm in the Seattle area, so our climate is temperate but very rainy most of the year. I have 6 ducks in our suburban backyard bordering a mountains to sound greenbelt. My coop and run are built on a terrace on the hillside in our wooded backyard. I want to do the deep litter method using...
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    Ducks and what they need in a coop/run

    I'm new to ducks, and my 6 Swedish Blue girls are about 7 weeks old. I live in suburbs of Seattle, and our yard is on the edge of the Mountains to Sound Greenbelt, very steep hill, and light shade from trees. My girls are in a 10 x 10 x 6 chain link dog kennel, with a skirting of hardware...
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    is pecking order a thing with same age female ducks

    I have 6 Swedish Blue ducklings, about a month old. So far, they pretty much act as a single unit, doing everything together -- kind of like a hive mind between all of them. Is it likely that they will develop a pecking order? In my experience with chickens, we always saw a pecking order--...
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    Like a duck to water -- not

    I have 6 Blue Swedish ducklings, 10 days old, and doing very nicely in their brooder. Yesterday was a warm day, and with some sun on the deck and a shallow storage bin filled with tepid water, including a ramp to make it possible for them to get out, I thought they might enjoy their first swim...
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    New to ducks, and this board

    Hi all. I'm Rachel, from Seattle area. This week we plan to get our first ducklings. I've got a brooder set up from a hacked Great Dane kennel (free on Buy Nothing) which we'll keep in a heated and enclosed play house until our quackers are ready for the new run we built. I'm sure I will have...
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