My hubby wants to put the ducks with the chicks so he doesn't want us to get a male as of yet. Maybe later on once we get accustomed to taking care of them and then we can separate them. I know no male ducks around my chickens. But this is the area that we have the chicks in now. This is just for reference. It's a fenced in area that is 80' x 100'. Woven goat fencing (cause I planned on getting goats at some point) and we realized that the chicks could walk right thru it.
The boogers! So we ordered hardware cloth because no one had it local in the amount we needed and that took a while so until we got it in, we went with that silt cloth you see around construction sites. LOL It works great and was cheap enough. We thought about moving the chicks to a dif area because I want to actually BUILD them a decent coop (we just have the prefab atm) so we just never put up the hardware cloth around the area. Figured we'd use it later.
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It's that upper section. The lower section is our dog pen. The chick area isn't how I really want it yet. We want to add a couple of trees for shade (will do this fall). Maybe another canopied area. Some more pallet shelters (just a pallet on cinder blocks) for them to run under if needed. So I guess I need to know, do I have to section off an area for the ducks? We have 6 chicks right now. I do want more but not a whole lot more. Maybe max out a 12 total. As for the duckies, I think I want at least 3. My chicks are 13 weeks old. Will there be fighting or can the 2 be combined? Or would it be better to have them in their own area? Dang I write a frickin novel. I'm sry ya'll!
I'm just trying to figure all of this out. 
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hope she's okay.
