Duck vs. chicken coop

[DarkWolf]

I keep the food inside the coop and the water outside about 2.5-3' away from the door. Will most likely stay with that arrangement once the coop is done and moved to the final location. They get put up after the sun goes down and let out in the morning around 9.

Right now I'd just got the two Pekins in it right now while I'm finishing things up. The little ones are too little. So far it's working out fine for me like that.


Keeping drakes with ducks is not an issue so long as the ratio is right. Else you'll either have over breeding of the ducks or fighting between the drakes.

 

[Oneacre Homestead]

This will be my fourth year with ducks and I am totally changing their housing. The wet poop and water is much messier than chickens and litter on the floor will not take care of it unless you totally change the litter daily. I am putting their water on a big wire Platform that will have another tub and drain under it, am putting in a big gate for easier pen cleaning and am giving them a much bigger area to roam in than I thought I needed before. Good luck!!

 

[DarkWolf]

I'm going a 384 square foot run four ours, which will be around 30 square foot each in the run. Though I'm not keeping 13 birds. By estimation once I thin the extra males it'll be 9 or 10 birds in all, making close to 40 SF per bird.

Seeing how dirty they are in the brooder there was no way I was going to do the water IN the coop. Took me days to scrub the duck slop off the wall beside my desk when I finally got fed up and tossed the Pekins out into the coop.

My only prerequisite for their housing is that I can move it as well as the run fairly easily as I'm wanting to seasonally move them into the garden bed and then back out before planting. The coop is small sized for that and on 4x4 skids and I'm building the run as bolt together 10'x3' panels that will have bracing in between each long run panel. Hoping that plan works out.