messy ducks
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Mallards messier than Muscovy?
Are muscovy easier to keep with chickens than mallard breeds? My friend suggested muscovy, saying they don't need water as much as mallard breeds, so their runs are easier to keep clean. How true is this? What is everyone's experience on keeping Muscovy ducks with chickens vs keeping mallard...- Heartsopenwide
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- Forum: Ducks
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messy water drinkers
I was thinking about how to keep the run and coop dry as I have ducks and chickens living together. The ducks are incredibly messy drinkers splashing water everywhere. I have the trough style waterers and one hanging upside down nipple waterer that seems to leak a little bit. In the run I was...- kaylyntheweirdginger
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- dry coop messy ducks waterer
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- Forum: Feeding & Watering Your Flock
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Keeping the pen clean?
Hey everyone, I just wondered what everyone's strategies were to keeping their duck pens/runs clean. I keep my ducks in pens rather than free-ranging them because they're pets and I don't want to worry about predators, etc. etc. The pens are smaller than I'd like because of space...- prestoconfuoco
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Messy ducks help/tips
Hello! This is my first year owning ducks and they are messy! They make all the wood chips by the watering bowl soaking wet! As I live in Minnesota that cant happen in our cold winters and they can't be getting there feet or the chickens feet wet so I need a good system were the 2 ducks can not...- Blaine7890
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- ducks help messy ducks
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- Forum: Feeding & Watering Your Flock
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Water system I'm contemplating
I'm think about buying this water troth with a float valve in it for my ducks run. It has a drain in the bottom. I'd plumb the drain to a PVC pipe with a valve on it so I could just open it and run water through to clean it. Maybe have a toilet brush and some vinegar in a spray bottle near by...- Fisherlmiranda
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