keeping clean

[daisysducks]

does anyone have any suggestions on keeping the cage & house clean?

 

[Stipenvlerk]

does anyone have any suggestions on keeping the cage & house clean?

In general? I try to clean the coop out everyday. If I skip a day the ducks get more dirty.
Ducks are messy! If your duckhouse is big enough give them a space where they can eat and drink apart from where they sleep.

 

[416bigbore]

does anyone have any suggestions on keeping the cage & house clean?

With lots of clean water. I rinse our 12'x12' coop out every morning, even though it has a dirt floor, still makes a huge differences in keeping them clean and especial healthy.

 

[416bigbore]

Some mornings I feel like I am an employee working at a large Sea Aquarium rinsing all the poo off everything getting ready for a big show!

 

[BDutch]

does anyone have any suggestions on keeping the cage & house clean?

I call the flees to eat the poop .

Seriously. I clean out the poop board 1x a week. They drop the poop into a kind of bedding (old hay /sand / grass clippings etc) I change the hay in the nesting boxes and clean the dirt (sand) floor in the coop every two weeks. My chickens don’t poop there. (Potty trained )

I do not clean the run but let them free range often. If they stay inside the run they have plenty of room. I add things to compost in the run, make the soil fertile. There are bushes in the run and rain/water comes in.

And true, there are flees that eat the poop. There are not so many that the flees are a nuisance. There is no poop smelling, the poop disappears after a while.

 

[21hens-incharge]

I call the flees to eat the poop .

Seriously. I clean out the poop board 1x a week. They drop the poop into a kind of bedding (old hay /sand / grass clippings etc) I change the hay in the nesting boxes and clean the dirt (sand) floor in the coop every two weeks. My chickens don’t poop there. (Potty trained )

I do not clean the run but let them free range often. If they stay inside the run they have plenty of room. I add things to compost in the run, make the soil fertile. There are bushes in the run and rain/water comes in.

And true, there are flees that eat the poop. There are not so many that the flees are a nuisance. There is no poop smelling, the poop disappears after a while.

Pretty sure we are talking ducks here.
Silly things won't use a poop board.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I use deep litter and clean wet poop out daily fluff and add as needed. @BDutch I have poop boards too and Muscovy who roost above them