Can you stop the poo smelling so bad?

[Miss Lydia]

Oops, I thought the OP meant the smell of their poo, not the scent of their ducks

I'm not sure if we can do much for the smell of our ducks poo. Tell me I'm wrong.

 

[Suzie]

You can buy Apple Cider Vinegar in ... Tesco, Sainsburys, Asda or any local supermarket in the U.K. - while you are there can you get me some Rowntrees Fruit Gums and some Cadbury's Chocolate.....they don't sell it here in France.

My ducks have ACV in their water but the smell is still awful... but then I do have 29 of the offenders plus 12 geese and there is noting worse than the smell of a broody duck when she decides to come off of her nest for her daily poop.....!!! Ahhhh... love them all!

One thing I will never do is share my shower with any of my ducks nor geese - they poop horizontally!!!!

Suzie

 

[Miss Lydia]

You can buy Apple Cider Vinegar in ... Tesco, Sainsburys, Asda or any local supermarket in the U.K. - while you are there can you get me some Rowntrees Fruit Gums and some Cadbury's Chocolate.....they don't sell it here in France.

My ducks have ACV in their water but the smell is still awful... but then I do have 29 of the offenders plus 12 geese and there is noting worse than the smell of a broody duck when she decides to come off of her nest for her daily poop.....!!! Ahhhh... love them all!

One thing I will never do is share my shower with any of my ducks nor geese - they poop horizontally!!!!

Suzie

now you've gone an done it I am hungry for chocolate.

 

[LightningTFarm]

I don't mean to hijack this thread, but I have a question that has to do with additions to your ducks' water. I have been putting niacin in my ducklings' water since they arrived. At what age do you just stop? Or, do you keep putting a smaller amount in there? The Holderread duck book says to give it for the first X number of weeks (different times in two different sections, I think), but doesn't say if you just take them off it cold turkey after that or if you wean them off or what. I would appreciate your input.

 

[Kevin565]

I always cut them off cold turkey.

 

[LightningTFarm]

At what age?

 

[Kevin565]

12 weeks

 

[pigeonguy]

I burn maple and sift the charcoal. I mix this in the feed, dust bath, grit and spead it in the run. I do this for chickens to keep thier poop from smelling to bad should work with ducks though. I think charcoal kills smells in any animal you know like Beano for gas. I will use it on myself on occasion that over the counter stuff is to expensive.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I burn maple and sift the charcoal. I mix this in the feed, dust bath, grit and spead it in the run. I do this for chickens to keep thier poop from smelling to bad should work with ducks though. I think charcoal kills smells in any animal you know like Beano for gas. I will use it on myself on occasion that over the counter stuff is to expensive.

I have put it in dust bath but not in food. but we also use a mix of hardwoods so it most likely wouldn't work here.

 

[pigeonguy]

I would use anything besides cedar its just that I have a lot of maple and I don't use the ash only the good black charcoal in the food broken into small pieces just a little. If you go to the store and look at the charcoal capsuls for humans in compairison to our body size thier not very big.