pictures of your duck pens.

[Hennyhandler]

Can anyone show me what their pens and shelters look like on an average day? After all the duck activity of the day? I don't have ducks just growing curious.

SO Pics please.

 

[chickensioux]

The Quack House

 

[SilverPhoenix]

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Oh, that's beautiful!

I wish I had something like that for my duckies!

 

[Hennyhandler]

Yours doesn't look messy at all. Do you not have a pond?

 

[cjeanean]

Wow. Mine's hideous. It's nothing but welded wire and t-posts and some zip ties. I will go hide now....

 

[chickensioux]

To answer Hennyhandler's question re: a pond-
Yes, there is a small trough in there now for them to play in and when they freerange in the backyard, they play in this area.

 

[Sweetfolly]

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That's almost exactly what I've drawn up plans that I'd like to build someday - after I move off my mom's property of course.

For now, my mom's 7 acres is slowly being overtaken by pens like this one:

Except it has a proper roof on it now - we used this thin, white acrylic material (I think it's the same stuff tubs and showers are made of these days - originally, we used some metal roofing, but the 10-year-old cut her hand on an edge, so it was torn off and switched out); my neighbor had a HUGE pile of 4x8' panels of the stuff lying in his yard - he told us to take whatever we wanted. We had to combine sections of it and seal the joints with caulking to get a good overhang.

I have two pens just like the one pictured, and another one half the size - which I'm actually going to renovate into a chicken coop later this spring, and move the two mallards that are in it into a nice little a-frame tractor. All the duck pens have spacious runs and kiddie pools that the ducks go muck up during the day. I don't have pictures of the runs because...well, they're brown and barren, because the ducks have killed all the vegetation. A few pine trees are all that have managed to survive.

Edited to add: Here's some pictures of the small pen when we were building it last fall:
A view of the inside with the front door wide open (the food and water goes on the plastic tub lid to contain most of the mess), and the back "duckie-door" that the ducks use to go in and out:

 

[xke4]

Could we see a picture of how the house is closed up in the winter? Not seeing a door. Looks beautiful tho'.