Favorite bedding for a duck coop

[RCAKB]

I'm currently in the process of building a duck coop. The one I am making is substantly bigger than where they are at now. (Will be 7x12, I have 6 ducks and I plan on getting more.) I currently use pine shavings and I clean it out daily. If I use that in the next coop then it will cost a lot of money to keep up with it. What are your suggestions?

 

[Welshies]

Use the deep litter method, like so:https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...st-way-to-deal-with-chicken-litter-dlm.47740/

 

[AkChris]

Deep litter hasn't worked that well for me with ducks. Their webbed feet mat it down really quickly and they don't scratch and fluff it like chickens will. I have my ducks and chickens together and even with the chickens it gets matted down quickly. I have to encourage them to scratch or take my pitchfork and fluff it myself every week or so.

Still I do use this method. I try to incorporate larger wood chips and small branches that don't mat down as quickly. I also use wood shavings and fine chips. Straw in the winter because it's a better insulator. I don't like that straw is slick and not very absorbent though. So I always try to mix in wood shaving because I like how they absorb the moisture from the wetter, runnier duck crap.