Duck/chicken housing help?

[Animal_lover2003]

So when I go chickens got kinda guilted in to 2 ducks, found out they are both boys and learned that I have to seperate them and finally seperated the area but now some of the chickens that grew up with the ducks like to magically get over the fence and hang out with the ducks...sooo I know its dangerous and big no no but what am I supposed to do? I don't know .. they are still young and havent seen anything towards the chickens before I seperated them.

 

[Jenbirdee]

So when I go chickens got kinda guilted in to 2 ducks, found out they are both boys and learned that I have to seperate them and finally seperated the area but now some of the chickens that grew up with the ducks like to magically get over the fence and hang out with the ducks...sooo I know its dangerous and big no no but what am I supposed to do? I don't know .. they are still young and havent seen anything towards the chickens before I seperated them.

Can you post pictures of your set up? Perhaps you can make the fence higher. I use 4 foot tenex poultry fencing and I had some areas where my chickens were flying over it so I took another section of 4 foot fencing and cut it horizontally into 2 foot tall sections and then I added some really tall sticks and attached the 2 feet on top of the 4 feet with a lot of zip ties to make it a 6 foot tall fence.

 

[Animal_lover2003]

Can you post pictures of your set up? Perhaps you can make the fence higher. I use 4 foot tenex poultry fencing and I had some areas where my chickens were flying over it so I took another section of 4 foot fencing and cut it horizontally into 2 foot tall sections and then I added some really tall sticks and attached the 2 feet on top of the 4 feet with a lot of zip ties to make it a 6 foot tall fence.

I'll take a picture when I get home, but as is its 5ft

 

[Jenbirdee]

I'll take a picture when I get home, but as is its 5ft

What kind of ducks are they? Maybe you can just clip their flight feathers on the tips of their wings. But make sure if you’re going to do that that you read a tutorial first. You have to be careful not to cut the wrong feathers or cut too much. I once had some khaki Campbell’s who could fly 6 feet high and go about 30 feet far. Saw one fly completely over my vegetable garden and crash into the back of the house lol but she was fine. So yeah, I know what you mean. After I clipped her flight feathers, she could no longer fly more than a couple feet high.

 

[Jenbirdee]

Oh no wait it’s the chickens that are flying over the fence to the ducks isn’t it? I have no idea if you can cut flight feathers on chickens !!?? - I only know about clipping Ducks. Sorry!

 

[Jenbirdee]

Well, I just looked it up and I read that apparently you can clip chickens flight feathers too