Semi annual duck-house clean-out yesterday: It took me two full hours to remove the foot of bedding that had accumulated since spring. Hay is available for free to me, but has the bad habit of matting, which makes the removal of some layers really "sweaty"…
Had to remove most of the card-board boxes from the house, due to the poor state they were in, but the ducknagers had a blast yesterday with those, they were like cat-ducks:
The soiled bedding is piling up six feet high behind the duck-house, but will compact and de-compose really fast during the upcoming wet-season. Late afternoon i re-assembled the duck-house-furniture and distributed new bedding, so here's the mudd-room, the floor is covered with wood-chips that will clean muddy duck-feet while walking on them, thus keeping the rest of the house cleaner:
This is the guard-duck post, notice the thick layer of bedding, elevating the guard ducks a couple of inches over the entrance, giving them, an advantage when defending the house:
From here you enter the living room with its flat surface bedding, straw along the walls and hay in the center:
The passage to the bedrooms is filled with dry leaves, again to clean up the duck's feet and legs:
Next is the bedroom for the raunchy ducknagers, while cleaning this one out i found plenty of evidence of crazy parties happening in here in the past. Straw in the nest-boxes, hay in the center.
And finally, the puddle-duck's fortified bedroom. No other duck is allowed in here, with the exception of Limpy drake…
The larger puddle-ducks, Blanca and Erpelchen insist in having their hay-courtains in front of their sleeping boxes:
Until next spring's cleanup…
