Need help with Breeding pen ideas!

[Sammbalina]

I need help with breeding pen ideas! I have a flock of 30+ Silver Appleyard ducks, sourced from 3 breeders that I'm wanting to do some selective breeding with. I want something affordable, as I need several of them. I want them easy to tear down, set up, store, and move so that I can put them up in the spring and take them down when I'm no longer aiming to hatch eggs. I am planning to set them up inside my main pen. I'm thinking maybe cutting some welded wire fencing into panels and using no dig fence posts from the big blue home improvement store, but I'm up for other ideas! I considered just using the no dig fence panels that go with the posts, but 4 3ft panels cost the same as a 100ft roll of welded wire fence . Out of that I can do 6 4x8 pens, which comes out to about $18 for each pen for the fencing.

I also need affordable nest box/house ideas for the breeding pens! At first I was thinking plastic dog houses but the prices on those have skyrocketed since I last worked at a pet store...

I would love to see pictures of what everyone has for their setups as well!!! Any other ideas welcome!!!

 

[Jenbirdee]

i buy used kids playhouses in fb marketplace . and i use the tenax poultry fencing , plastic, 4 ft high. with step in posts. but one of my birds was injured by the tooth on the bottom of a step in post so now I take pliers and break off all the pointy teeth. They are designed to keep the post from spinning . but ducks dig under, and it got caught in her nare and she ripped her face open and broke her leg frantically trying to escape.