Rubber foam mats

[Sarahsadness]

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[Sarahsadness]

Omg I am sorry I didnt realize I jumped in on your conversation

 

[Sarahsadness]

Someone please look at my post in this post and reply thank you

 

[mlh328]

Hi! I would try searching "abandoned duckling" on this site and check it out then go from there. Make sure the feed you're giving isn't medicated. Try a little stuffed animal so it can cuddle and maybe try a shatter proof mirror because they need company. Are you planning on keeping it? I'm sorry I'm not much help! I'm new to ducks!

 

[chwychuro]

@Wild Hair I haven't used the rubber mats, and I only have 11 but I had someone pour cement down and we built a pen approx. 20x17 ! And it has quite a bit of space for them. They even lay in the nest! But for me even with cement and it being winter we have a hard time scraping the poop off unless we really scrub down. Thinking of investing in a power washer. But back to subject, with duck poop, unless you get it while it's still wet it will get into the foam padding and with their little claws it will probably end up having to replace more often than you'd think. We wash our pen down every other day, once in a while two days in a row and it still seems to be a pain.... I don't know if the foam will hold up since their poop seems to stain the cement. I think it's eating the cement slowly, but I'm no expert.

 

[Wild Hair]

I've ordered a small batch of six pads to see how they hold up to some durability tests. The urine eating into the foam was my biggest concern and also the claws. A lot of folks don't realize how sharp they can get.

 

[Wild Hair]

@chwychuro thinking a little more on the matter, your concrete floor is porous unless you sealed it. The foam pads I've described are of the nonporous type and shouldn't absorb any moisture. They might still be susceptible to corrosion by the urine, however.

 

[wallawu]

I think I know the mats that you're talking about, and they absorb water. We use them in the back of the truck when we're moving things that can get dinged up. I have a 4x8 ft duck house that I glued a 4x8 FRP sheet down in. It's by the composite wood at Home Depot, thin flexible sheets. It's used on bathroom walls. I also cut another piece and lined the walls up to about 10 inches with it to keep their mess off of the wood. I sealed the connections with silicone. I put pine shavings on that, and it has been great. Extremely easy to clean. I normally don't spray it out, it's tough enough to be scraped with the back side of a rake if there's anything stuck to it. If I keep enough pine shavings in there it catches most of it. I've been very happy with it.

 

[Wild Hair]

This is very similar to the nest box my birds already have. Everywhere I'm looking at ordering the pads from say they won't absorb water. Hopefully they aren't misleading. The shavings do work great but as my flock grows, I could see it being quite the pain with cost and disposal.