Yes, I collect eggs all but about two months in winter.
The ducks poop in the duck house, but get this: because I use over a foot of shavings, and the ducks only spend the night in the house, and I stir the shavings once a day (easy three minute job), the poops dry up within hours and crumble apart and just mix into the shavings. Sometimes if I want some plant fertilizer I pick some up and put them in a little bucket, add water and give it to the plants. But aside from that, the stuff stays in the shavings. If and when I use a few inches of straw, it stays in the straw that I clean out every 2 or 3 days.
Putting the food and water outside the sleeping area makes a day-and-night difference. I still have them in their winter night pen right now (walkout basement area), where I have Manning flooring under a few inches of straw. Each day I sprinkle about half to an inch or two of straw on top. After a week to ten days I clean it all out and start over. No unpleasant aroma, mostly smells of straw with a little earthiness especially toward the end of the week. The water is in the bottom half of a large plastic dog crate, with sawdust pellets in the bottom. Those get stirred daily, added two a few times a week, and replaced week to 10 days or so. That works very well, also.
