The Quack Shack

[rjohns39]

Good morning / evening folks

 

[BecksNesting]

We're giving serious consideration to raising ducks. We will probably need a distant site from our chicken run and coop though so there wouldn't be a problem with any possible disease affecting one another, right?

 

[Summer_]

That's wonderful. Are you going to do anything special for them?

A female duck inside a cake lol

I do plan on doing something, I’m not sure what yet though

 

[Miss Lydia]

@BecksNesting
What kind of disease are you talking about? my flock all live together Ducks goose and chickens and I have never had a problem. I clean my coops everyday to keep them as clean as possible. And they all eat the same feed. They have access to a little over 1/2 acre with fencing surrounding them. They all get along great. Most important if your considering having a drake is to have plenty of female ducks for him. That way he won't be interested in your chicken hens.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Way south!

Really? - You mean more south than Taco-Country? Cross the equator?
We have to import straw now from South-America?!
Not even the straw is »made in the U.S.A.« nowadays!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

@BecksNesting
What kind of disease are you talking about? my flock all live together Ducks goose and chickens and I have never had a problem. I clean my coops everyday to keep them as clean as possible. And they all eat the same feed. They have access to a little over 1/2 acre with fencing surrounding them. They all get along great. Most important if your considering having a drake is to have plenty of female ducks for him. That way he won't be interested in your chicken hens.

I was about to write the same things! Plenty of people have mixed flocks of Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Muscovies, some even have mixed in some Turkeys. No issues with diseases - those will all be shared by everybody. As @Miss Lydia said: Careful with the drakes, comes spring they like to use everybody and everything as pool-noodle…

 

[Canadian Wind]

How many decimeters of white fungus did you get? - Let's confuse the non-metric folks a bit!

I haven't checked, but forecast called for about 1.5 to 2 dm. And it's still snowing.

 

[Canadian Wind]

Good day/night. I need to drag my butt out there at some point, but overslept. Snow supposed to end tonight, thank goodness.

SOMEONE SEND SPRING PLEASE!!!

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

We're giving serious consideration to raising ducks. We will probably need a distant site from our chicken run and coop though so there wouldn't be a problem with any possible disease affecting one another, right?

Ducks are very hardy and don't suffer or spread much illness at all. I've had mixed flocks but I would see the appeal in the ducks having their own run as they are very messy, and no body of water is safe from their muddy noses. So for the chickens sake needs to be fresh drinking water, either in their own run or behind a little fence the ducks can't get over and mess with. I had a foot high fence for mine, easy enough for chooks to jump, hugh enough ducks thought it was impossible

 

[BecksNesting]

Mycoplasma gallisepticum