My Duck Plan

[doubleatraining]

The Duck Plan:
A wonderful friend is rennovating their house and has a MASSIVE wood pile outside. I've been invited to get whatever I want. WOOO HOOO

So I plan on building a small duck shelter with the excess wood and some extra wire at the house. I want to build them essentially an "overnight" shelter to lock them in away from the night time predators. For the day time I'm going to put up a fence in the woods that will have a pool for them and plenty of area to be ducks. LOL

The plan right now is to start with 3 of my friend's 300 ducks.

How big does the coop need to be for 3-5 ducks? Does the plan sound reasonable?

 

[70%cocoa]

Lucky you! That's wonderful. I'd say for an overnight shelter for up to 5 ducks you should be aiming for about 25 sq feet, or 5 sq feet per duck. Make sure they have good ventilation too.

Can't wait to see pics! I'm sure you'll love having the ducks.

 

[Miss Lydia]

The Duck Plan:
A wonderful friend is rennovating their house and has a MASSIVE wood pile outside. I've been invited to get whatever I want. WOOO HOOO

So I plan on building a small duck shelter with the excess wood and some extra wire at the house. I want to build them essentially an "overnight" shelter to lock them in away from the night time predators. For the day time I'm going to put up a fence in the woods that will have a pool for them and plenty of area to be ducks. LOL

The plan right now is to start with 3 of my friend's 300 ducks.

How big does the coop need to be for 3-5 ducks? Does the plan sound reasonable?

BHep has 300 ducks?

Sounds like a great plan dt, like cocoa says be sure to post pics when you get your coop done and also when you get your ducks..

 

[doubleatraining]

Miss Lydia, yep they are coming from Bhep.

 

[AAJ]

It sounds outstanding. Make the house about the right size for about 20 ducks. They will reproduce quick.

 

[rainplace]

It sounds outstanding. Make the house about the right size for about 20 ducks. They will reproduce quick.

Agreed on making a larger house than you need. They do reproduce quickly, mostly by people getting more

 

[doubleatraining]

LOL I'm not going to have 20 ducks....no boys are welcome here. I just want eggs.

 

[rainplace]

LOL I'm not going to have 20 ducks....no boys are welcome here. I just want eggs.

You say that now... Seriously, once people have a couple, it seems to take extreme will not to acquire more.

 

[poultrypalacewhidbey]

Its best to make duck housing a little on the large side anyway as they are experts at making a mess of things. If they will be getting out every day I would feed them outside the house and give them most of their water in the daytime pen and only give them access to a small amount of water at night. The less water in the house the cleaner the duck house in my experience.
Good luck.

 

[doubleatraining]

poultrypalacewhidbey, I like ducks but they aren't my focus. I'll have to see what kind of boards I get to see how big I can go. I was planning on putting their tub outside in the run and just a little bit of drinking water inside the coop so they can't get but so messy. I'll bed it with straw. I plan on making a 3 sided structure with a roof for their coop.


Do they need nesting boxes?