Ideas for collecting muscovy poop

[mark-rfuqaehc]

Dear all,

I have 16 muscovy ducks at my small farm in Northern Thailand. They mostly stay around the pond and at night they stay at the edge of the pond.

I would like to utilise the poop and my idea was to build an enclosure for them where they could stay at night and then cover the ground with rice husks to collect the poop.
I moved their food tray inside the enclosure to feed at 5pm and then closed the "gate". Feeling at bit bad since I know they like to bathe and clean themselves in the pond after eating in the afternoon.

It turned out that they were really not happy with staying inside the enclosure during night and eventually they all got out to their usual place on the edge of the pond or the small jetty.

I have covered the edge of the pond with rice husks but I don't think it will be easy to collect.

Any ideas of how to do something that will allow me to collect the duck poop?

I have attached photos of how it looks at the moment and where they like to be at evening/night.

Thank you!

 

[Miss Lydia]

I can understand why they wouldn’t want to be locked ice hull up you have a beautiful place there and the ducks are In paradise I’m sure. I’d say the rice husks are your best bet if they will sleep on them. My Muscovy love to nestle down into their shavings to sleep so hopefully giving them something like rIce husks might work?