The magic of clipping a duck-sized hole

[fowltemptress]

I use plastic storage bins with a hole cut in them.

I saw that, and was thinking of going that route.

 

[Canadian Wind]

I saw that, and was thinking of going that route.

Muscovie just love them!

 

[ruthhope]

I love your muscovy! They are beautiful. And clean if they bathe twice a day. Two of my muscovy drakes virtually never bathe and get hosed down. My third bathes once a day if the water is clean in his wading pool. He is fussy about his water, unless he is excluding a new boy from the pool

I have a smaller version of your ducky courtyard that I use when I have a new duck needing. integration. I use a temporary dog pen around the coop entrance, attached like your fence with carabiners. The advantage of using a dog pen is that it comes with a gate in one section. I haven't needed to modify with a ducky door as I am excluding the older boys and keeping the new boy safe in the 'see no touch' period. I put the new boy to bed in a dog crate in the coop first, then fold back the dog pen to let the older boys in! The photo from January this year is of Louie Wilson my newest pekin rescue, with Pato one of my muscovy drakes outside the pen at the back. Louie is now integrated during the day but still sleeps in a dog crate inside the coop

 

[ATXInstantFlock]

That's definitely true. I feel like for every problem I have, I spend hours looking up information and making convoluted plans before finally and accidentally landing on something that was sitting in front of my face the whole time.

Sounds like someone that I know.

So now my coop has a few of those old, holey cans in it, and the muscovies are thrilled with them. Not the prettiest solution, but I'm not going to argue with free and easy.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder! Looks great to me with some well places ventilation holes.