The Quack Shack

[Miss Lydia]

Oh gosh forgot your way ahead of us! All the fires out now? Do hope y’all get some relief from the heat. Our first day of spring is March 19th.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Okay y’all more baby pictures!!

 

[Tooshay89]

Question for all if you duckard keepers. We’re adding windows to the quack shack - aka holes with hardware cloth in them. I found info on how much ventilation a coop should have per chicken, but nothing on ducks. How many square feet of ventilation would you reccomend in a coop per duck? The coop is 4x8.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Oh gosh forgot your way ahead of us! All the fires out now? Do hope y’all get some relief from the heat. Our first day of spring is March 19th.

As far as I know they are. February was actually quite cool for a change, I think I only used the air con of an afternoon all month, as opposed to feb2019 where it ran soildly the entire month. We have another rain event coming mid week so that will cool us down for sure

 

[Miss Lydia]

That’s awesome. We’re to have a rain event most of the week. But we had a beautiful day today. Mid 50’sF.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Chris still hatching ?

 

[Trimurtisan]

I’ve been thinking of getting some ducks do you know if they react well with hens or if the two can be housed together

I have multiple male and female ducks and chickens that live together with no problem. They eat and sleep together just fine.

Question for all if you duckard keepers. We’re adding windows to the quack shack - aka holes with hardware cloth in them. I found info on how much ventilation a coop should have per chicken, but nothing on ducks. How many square feet of ventilation would you reccomend in a coop per duck? The coop is 4x8.

I wouldn't think it'd be much different that chickens. Especially if you're not keeping water and food in there. The Shack here doesn't have windows. The roof is not "sealed to the building...." I'm not a builder, not sure how to word it, but there's passive ventilation.

Plus I run 2 extraction fans when it's hot. One is 190cfm and the other if 444cfm.

 

[Trimurtisan]

Chris still hatching ?

No, done this week. Got 2 more Silkies now.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

With my husbands help over the weekend, I got to free range my entire flock together for the first time! I needed hubs help because as expected Mario (pekin drake) was abit too rowdy for everyone so needed a couple of time outs. But now they have settled well and I can finally enjoy them all together.

 

[Trimurtisan]

I've been pretty busy today. I sold the Phork chicks, including Dink. I showed then the wing and the granddaughter thought it was cute, so they bought it too.


Been working on the bantam pin today...