Here are pics of our new duck house. As you can see, they have a large lake to use
when not in the pen. Still trying to get them inside, but they have been eating food
in the doorway. :) The white female duck was up the hill at our house in a flower bed
laying eggs when the pick was taken...
Great News, we're able to build a duck house on land for them. :) We're going to attach one fenced wall to our chicken run, but they will have their own enclosure/house and run. They seem to really like being close to the chickens. Crossing fingers and hoping they will get used to it so we're...
We've been feeding them cracked corn and our chicken food. They will only eat at our house by our chicken coop. :) Feeling kind of helpless right now, they were looking for shelter from a storm and sat by our chicken pen. There are several areas of tall grass around the lake where the female...
That's a very good idea. thank you. our neighbor really enjoys watching the ducks on the lake. I guess a solution could be a floating house for summer and a house with enclosed fencing for the winter months.
We've been feeding them, but they aren't tame enough to get too close to. We have backyard chickens and they started coming to their coop when we'd feed them. The lake belongs to a farmer that lives right by the lake, we've thought trying to tame them and see about providing an enclosed shelter...
Someone dropped off domestic ducks at a lake by our house. We would like to build them a floating duck house, but are worried about predators like coyotes if the lake freezes over. Any suggestions on how we could predator proof the duck house? What there be a certain type of style that would...