Ok, silly question all. I have 2 Pekins, nearly fully adult feathered. We have a 50 Gallon tub in the run for them. It's an old leftover from my fiancee's family farm, so it isn't really built for ducks. It's deep and compact. Anyway, we just set a board up on the side for them to walk up. When we realized they were having trouble with the incline, we put some little footholds up for them. I've still never seen them get into the tub. I know they want to because they will go over to the side and sort of bump their chests into it (they're not very graceful).
They're waterfowl so obviously access to water is important for them. Any suggestions on a better way for them to get in? I have thought of a little set of steps or whatever, but they thing is they are just so darn awkward. The only way they get any tub time right now is if I go out and pick them up and put them in. Then, by the time I get the second one caught, the first one has bailed out because it was oh so rude of me to plop it in!
How high are the sides? And how do you drain it? It might be possible to build up the one side, where the drain isn't, maybe using straw bales, rocks or loads of dirt to get it built up to the rim.