Starting that duck house

[21hens-incharge]

**pulls out first aid tool box bigger than herself and digs...**

Lets see....
Telfa pads, economy sized box, ...enough wraps to make a costume for Halloween, ...goey healing stuff,...pretty silver spray,...Oh, and pretty purple spray too! Enough cotton to make a teddy bear, .... a listen to the ticker thump thump thingy,... broomsticks for make shift splints..
Am I forgetting anything?

Hmm..maybe I should handle the cutty things with teeth? Though, I'm pretty talented when it comes to stabbing myself with sharp objects.

I would say needle and thread but....the stabbing thing lol.

It was a freak accident really. My thumb got sucked into a 1" hole on a piece of equipment . That spinny thing had a quick and brutal way of saying NO. Like sticking it in a blender on high speed. I have yet to cut myself with a saw of any type.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Ok so not much able to happen until Saturday but.....


Pool drain run to outside the run. Yup straight out to the fence. I may put a 90 on it and run it into another pipe to use the water on the bed behind the run. It all depends on how much debris they put in the pool.


Not a good picture by any stretch but at least they are relaxed.

I have so much landscaping to fix.

 

[CoriM]

Holy moly this is taking me FOREVER to get done.

Yesterday I got the duck deck built. Today one coat of light gray porch and floor paint. Once it is dry I will do a second coat.
For the mistint section at Home Depot. The porch and floor paint was there!

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Deliberately sloped so excess happy splashing runs OUT of the run.

The cut out is my access door to the plumbing. I will cover the hinge with boat carpet to protect duck feet.
That gap under is getting 1/4" hardware cloth. I want airflow under there to help keep things dry(ish) at least.
Then reinstall the ramp.

Oh and a python aquarium siphon really helps get the muck out of the pool bottom.

@Miss Lydia I finally got to work on it some.

Can I ask how your ducks get out of the pond? Do you have blocks on the ledge of the preformed pond?

 

[21hens-incharge]

Can I ask how your ducks get out of the pond? Do you have blocks on the ledge of the preformed pond?

I do have stacked blocks on the end by the ramp. Sometimes they just pop up over the edge but most of the time they use the blocks.
It is actually a stock tank so even worse than a preformed as there are no ledges at all.