I'll pop another brooder together just in case. I was a clean freak with out chickens cleaning it out at least every other day, if not every day or even twice a day some times.. I like clean pens, plus they were getting raised in our house. I fear my neat-freak habits may go nuts with the ducks...
Good to know about getting only females! Wouldn't want to see any of my hens getting hurt or killed out of frisky drake shenanigans lol.
Adding a poop deck is a good plan as well, even if I house the ducks separately, I do recall the previous chickens constantly firing stink-missiles onto their...
We built a chicken coop when we first moved to our farm and decided to resort back to our country ways after being "city slickers" for many years. We owned 6 laying hens, 2 roosters and 6 meat hens. We let them live part-time free-range, where they were in coop (with a medium-large run) during...