Ducks being messy

[KaleIAm]

My ducks prefer to lay in their sleeping corner. Since they have been pooping there all night, I prefer them to lay anywhere else. I bought several fake eggs and put them in a box in another corner, and thankfully they need to lay where there are already eggs more than they need to lay in their sleeping corner. Their eggs are usually clean now, as long as I pick them up before anyone goes outside. I tried taking the fake eggs away, thinking after 2 years of laying in the box they would be trained. But no, they made a nice nest in the poop for the eggs.

Ducks are just ridiculously messy.

 

[Chasingcars]

Yep...that’s normal!
My hen coop is clean and lovely..until my runner ducks get in there!
Pond , webbed feet, ducks...
They’d trample over the hen eggs making them dirty and their own eggs would also be dirty...they’d also lay wherever they like..coop , nesting box, garden , mud, grass....
Gotta love those ducks!

 

[Newfarmer36]

My ducks dug out a nest in the shavings on one end of their house (deep litter pine shavings). They never poop over there and most eggs are pristine! Sometimes there is a feather or a piece of wood shavings stuck to it and that is all really. I'm considering myself lucky.

Lol! You should!

 

[Newfarmer36]

I would be totally surprised if my ducks laid an egg and I found it clean and I use deep litter and keep my coops clean.

I use the deep litter method too. I have about 4 feet of shavings in there.

 

[Newfarmer36]

Yep...that’s normal!
My hen coop is clean and lovely..until my runner ducks get in there!
Pond , webbed feet, ducks...
They’d trample over the hen eggs making them dirty and their own eggs would also be dirty...they’d also lay wherever they like..coop , nesting box, garden , mud, grass....
Gotta love those ducks!

I do! I just wish they were more considerate of my hands! Lol

 

[Newfarmer36]

My ducks prefer to lay in their sleeping corner. Since they have been pooping there all night, I prefer them to lay anywhere else. I bought several fake eggs and put them in a box in another corner, and thankfully they need to lay where there are already eggs more than they need to lay in their sleeping corner. Their eggs are usually clean now, as long as I pick them up before anyone goes outside. I tried taking the fake eggs away, thinking after 2 years of laying in the box they would be trained. But no, they made a nice nest in the poop for the eggs.

Ducks are just ridiculously messy.

I bought fake eggs. They kick them out of the enclosure! Lol

 

[Duck Lover88]

My ducks dug out a nest in the shavings on one end of their house (deep litter pine shavings). They never poop over there and most eggs are pristine! Sometimes there is a feather or a piece of wood shavings stuck to it and that is all really. I'm considering myself lucky.

Yes very, very, lucky

 

[llombardo]

I got one baby duck on Sunday, picked two more slightly older ones tonite. As soon as I put them in the brooder I knew they were going to be a mess. Water everywhere. I don't even know how I'm going to make sure they have water when I'm at work. I can only imagine now what they will do in the coop.

 

[Animal family]

I got one baby duck on Sunday, picked two more slightly older ones tonite. As soon as I put them in the brooder I knew they were going to be a mess. Water everywhere. I don't even know how I'm going to make sure they have water when I'm at work. I can only imagine now what they will do in the coop.

So don’t laugh, but I actually put my 2 in the master bath tub. I USed shavings over a layer of newspaper with the water on one end. The heat lamp was on the other end. I scooped poop out and put fresh shaving in, replaced water 2x day, and I put an old dish towel under the water dish, (a flat casserole dish). I also gave them a dish towel to sleep on. When they were outside and grown, I swept it all up, then vacuumed the tub. ya, we didn’t use the tub for a while

 

[Miss Lydia]

I got one baby duck on Sunday, picked two more slightly older ones tonite. As soon as I put them in the brooder I knew they were going to be a mess. Water everywhere. I don't even know how I'm going to make sure they have water when I'm at work. I can only imagine now what they will do in the coop.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/raising-and-caring-for-ducklings.750869/ good info and a pic of a cheap duckling waterer. Put this on top of a broiler pan or something similar to keep water from getting too bad.
Once in the coop no food and water inside most of us learned that the hard way lol