I use heavy rubber buckets. I fill at least twice a day for my ducks with tepid water. If they freeze during the night, which is every night from december to march, i can bash them on a rock and refill them without my buckets cracking.
Dry bedding for their feet is excellent advice too. I...
Today is the first day that I am keeping everyone in the barn and ythis is only because we are expecting over forty centimetres of snow and I need to shovel out the pop door.
Perhaps I should add that I live in southern Quebec.
So far, my ducks are delighted to be out and about no matter...
We need to sort out the humidity and ventilation issues.
I think a lot of it has to do with needing so many water buckets for the ducks.
I realized that as I was being lazy and leaving water buckets in the barn (even though they were out and wandering about) that this was adding to it.
the barn...
I think i have too many questions so i will start with an introduction....
Dawkins, Lamarck, and Gould (my ducks) are now the proud inhabitants of a new barn that My partner built for me. They share it with goats, pony, chickens, and whatever else finds its way into our house of goblins here in...