Design and Maintanace of Duck coop. Pic Heavy. ????

[cowman910]

i'm so glad my ducks are outside and cant see this....and i thought my chicks called me cheap

 

[Fancie]

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I love your set up.
How often do you clean the duck area??

 

[Brickman House]

Hi Fancie,

We don't really do much to clean it.

Our duck area is right next to our small orchard. We have a sewage-type pump in the pond, and once a week we drain the pond into the orchard, hose it down briefly, and refill it. Duck poop water is terrific fertilizer for the fruit trees! If the rocks around the pond are grungy, we'll hose them down, but that's about it.

It's pretty low maintenance!

 

[Deedee]

That is beautiful, i am getting some great ideas from everybody!!!

 

[kycklingmamma]

We had an old wood deck taken up, so I used the joists, laying them on the bare ground as just that,joists and then I placed the decking on top of those joists. I am only using a kiddie pool for my three runners, so I simply drilled out a hole in the bottom of the kiddie pool and got a drain plug to keep the hole plugged. Under the pool I dug a big hole, and of course I also left a hole in the decking, so once the water gets nasty, smply pull the plug out, the water drains into the hole, and put the plug into the pool and fill up once again. It is easy and the wooden decking is very easy to hose off. I did keep the boards closer together than normal, so their little feet won't get caught in any spaces. I have it all set up in my large chicken run, soo they are all together, but I have a fenced area where the ducks have their little pool so the hens don't have to put up with the muck. It seems to work great, and it was all of $0.87, because of the drain plug, all the other materials were scrap from our yard.

kycklingmamma and now also ankmamma

Fancie217, your set up is absolutely beautiful, I wish I had that for my girls as well.

 

[Wifezilla]

The overkill looks really good brickman

We just did large paving stones around the pond liner. That seems to be working fine.

 

[Fancie]

I'm thinking of not uprooting the pond and instead getting a pump like you guys. The gravity hose thing is just not working.

What pump would you suggest... and what all hoses with I need? I'm working on $100 budget... at most... when it comes to the pump and set up.

 

[tdgill]

probably worth checking different places for one.

oh and, i just screw on my garden hose. I also have one of those large black plastic barrels that I keep backup water in, incase I want to change water - the temperature is not shockingly different than whats in the pond. and I just drop the pump in there and run the hose to the pond to refill it...

we use a pool cover pump for our fish pond. wondering if there is a wide variety of models/prices considering different applications/uses

hmmm fish pond. would look good with ducks...

OHHHH NOOOO someone please stop me!!!!

 

[Cetawin]

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Whats that....

That is when they get a scrap or scratch on their foot and it becomes infected...a staph infection. They get nasty painful sore on their foot. The cleaner the ground they walk on the better and also making sure there is nothing they can cut their feet on. That is the fist step.