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Thanks! I hadn't seen the wiggle wire before and that may be a good option. I'm thinking I may do the end walls out of plywood and leave the covering up at least spring to fall. I can build it so I can roll up the sides for ventilation and doors on both ends. I just think it's too much hassle to...

I have decided to start gardening again and am building raised beds to keep the ducks out :) I found a metal hoop greenhouse out in a junk pile!! It's 12' wide at the base and I'll probably do 20' long for now. But I don't know what to cover it with. I've researched a lot but still can't decide...

I have a Muscovy that hid a nest under a large pine tree and I didn't find it for a while. They started hatching yesterday, first baby out in early morning. A couple more eggs were hatching, I don't know how many are now. I can only get a glimpse of her and see some eggs that haven't started...

http://www.amazon.com/Heavy-Duty-Dirty-Submersible-Switch-Gallons-/dp/B000W8LFJA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1303672180&sr=8-1 It's really cheap, and has a large intake so will handle very dirty water. If there's a lot of straw or anything getting into it, it will clog eventually. Bought one last...

I haven't been on here much at all, sooo busy! Winter for me is solid snowmobiling, so I'm on all my snowmobiling forums promoting our women's film and all, not on here much till spring starts up! This was the first pond I tried. I've since changed it quite a bit, plus that pen is split...

Mine will use nest boxes if that's all that's available. They get locked in at night, so that's the best place in their pen. They seem to like feeling secure and surrounded, not just out in the open with nothing over/around them. If you have a low hanging, thick bush in your duck pen some will...

It depends on when it was cut also. I got some grass hay that was seeded out and the ducks loved it- picking through and eating the grass seeds. They also love oat hay that was just cut and baled. If it's thrashed the oats are gone and it's just stems. But anything should make ok bedding as long...

The male probably drug it into the pond and drowned it. It wouldn't have found the pond on it's own if the mother was still on the nest. Sorry!

Until a week ago I was using puppy training pads. They work great! Just throw them away a few times a day, along with the mess and the smell! Now they're on shavings. They pick at them at first, and eat some. But quickly get used to it. I waited till about 2 weeks to start using shavings. You...

So I recently got 3 WH's from Metzer, a blue runner and a chocolate runner. The WH's are the crazy ones, don't want anything to do with me and panic everytime I get close. I can hold them on my lap, for like an hour and they are still squirming, screeching and trying to get away. The blue runner...

I learned that the hard way when I first got ducks at like age 10. Make sure the fence it tight enough a baby can't slip through, and the male can't get his head through to reach the babies. They will also drown them if given a chance. Then this year I had one duck and two geese sitting. One...

I was looking for a pair, but I know there were some others on here. I found a pair though, and that's a bit far to drive right now. Otherwise........ She's very pretty!

Do they learn not to eat the pellets?

My Rouens have always been very fertile, hatching up to 17 eggs at a time. But it's normally earlier, I don't know about this time of year. Right now they aren't that interested in the female, don't think they're breeding much at all.

A lot of people don't put water or food in their night coop. I definitely don't, it's messier. But if they have food and are locked up, they need water too. I keep their food and water outside the coop, but they don't get locked in the coop at night, just in the runs. It just depends on your...

It looks great! One thought for you, they will carry rocks into the pool, rocks even bigger than pea gravel. So you might want to think about putting large rocks for a couple feet out from the pool to minimize this. It's especially bad (as I'm sure you know!) if they can reach anything from the...

I'm not disputing anyone. Just giving my experiences since we both live in Idaho and it can get incredibly cold here. It's also a la nina year and supposed to be extra cold and wet. -20 Farenheit with a 20 mph wind is a wind chill of -48 Farneheit. -30f and 20 mph wind is -61 windchill. That's...

Last winter we had a lot of mornings where the ducks were all solid white with ice and were shivering badly. So when it's that cold, I wouldn't let them be outside without a shelter. It gets miserably cold here, many times down to -20 for weeks with severe winds, sometimes colder than that. I...

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Here's a few pics. There's still lumber and stuff in the pen that will get cleaned out. One run is bigger than the other, the large house opens into the small run- for mothers and babies so they won't be in the pen with the pools. The other opens outside, with a small door and a big door for me...