duck pens/house...space needed? any ideas?

[mtadkins5]

Can some of you plz post some pics?

 

[Amiga]

Amiga, can I make a suggestion about the luan? If you go to HD or Lowes, they have plastic panels for showers and baths, as stiff as the luan and about the same price. Luan even when painted with many coats, just doesn't seem to hold up to the wet in my experience.

Also, fantastic information about the PH! I just never thought of it that way before. Thanks for that!

One thing that I would add here, is also make plans for your water in the Winter if you are in a place that gets cold. Lugging buckets or hoses when it's below zero and windy isn't a whole lot of fun, believe me.

Haunted55, thank you very much! I have been wondering how to do it better. The luan is okay, but I can see that longer term I need a better solution. The basement pen is constantly evolving, as I consider and learn about air circulation, moisture, surface cleaning, pest infestation prevention, providing nooks for nests and "I want to be alone" time, lighting, dust . . . .

 

[Amiga]

Top edge of vinyl flooring sheets. The duck tape did not work well, so I switched to furring strips. (one inch by three inch lumber)




Sometimes, when I could get good quality straw, I would put a few inches of it on top of the shavings. It was easy to push aside for stirring, and I would remove it after a couple of days and use it to mulch perennials. Note the rolled-up shade cloth for the sunny side of the house.



Happiness is a watering station that works well.

 

[mtadkins5]

How is it you made your watering station and what is in it?

 

[Amiga]

I had an old plastic dog crate that separates into a top and a bottom. I used the bottom, put some pressed sawdust pellets in it, and place a stew pot in it. The ducks walk in to drink and splash, and 98% of the water stays in the watering station. I clean up the sawdust, and the rest of the bedding stays dry except just outside the doorway, so I put sawdust there and scoop it out every couple of days.

 

[mtadkins5]

Does anyone else have any pics?

 

[Haunted55]

This is a picture of my duck/goose housing. The front building is a reused Halloween prop, a mausoleum, that was part of a woods walk we did for years. In the left of the picture, you can see the doorway to the addition that we added last Fall.


This is a picture of the nesting boxes we built for the geese in the addition to the mausoleum/duck house. Not painted even now as I have geese who decided to go another round.


As you can see here we utilized the upper space with a brooder. These goslings were purchased, not hatched by my own.



This is in the duck/front part of the building. This was built to accomodate my Mallards although the Pekins, K Campbells and geese seem to like it as well.




This, in the duck room, is the feeding and watering station. No where big enough! I am going to be changing this to the other end of the front and making it a full 4' x 6' opening braced, hardware clothed and plastic poultry fencing over that to protect their feet. The one shown is 2' x 4'. I am also going to be making a sledge to fit underneath the new opening/waterporch so that clean up in the Spring will be a lot easier. My set up is different than most as I used what I had available to me. The buildings are human size.

 

[Miss Lydia]

This is a picture of my duck/goose housing. The front building is a reused Halloween prop, a mausoleum, that was part of a woods walk we did for years. In the left of the picture, you can see the doorway to the addition that we added last Fall.


This is a picture of the nesting boxes we built for the geese in the addition to the mausoleum/duck house. Not painted even now as I have geese who decided to go another round.


As you can see here we utilized the upper space with a brooder. These goslings were purchased, not hatched by my own.



This is in the duck/front part of the building. This was built to accomodate my Mallards although the Pekins, K Campbells and geese seem to like it as well.




This, in the duck room, is the feeding and watering station. No where big enough! I am going to be changing this to the other end of the front and making it a full 4' x 6' opening braced, hardware clothed and plastic poultry fencing over that to protect their feet. The one shown is 2' x 4'. I am also going to be making a sledge to fit underneath the new opening/waterporch so that clean up in the Spring will be a lot easier. My set up is different than most as I used what I had available to me. The buildings are human size.

Very nice H,

 

[Amiga]

 

[mtadkins5]

I love your set up. How steep can you make the steps for ducks? Is that harder for them to get up? I love the food and watering station!