Turning a garden shed into a duck house (I did it - I cut it up)

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We are, we are hoping to finish it tonight, if not then this weekend for sure. (we have to - it is incroaching on the horse paddock so we moved the horses and have that side down to get the pen finished..... I am tired of all of this horse work because they are not in the pasture with the automatic water-er.
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I have:
2 Welsh Harlequin
2 Blue Swedish
1 white crested
4 Golden Hybrids
1 Male Golden Hybrid


Ya - I am crazy!
I only ordered 8 (which is a bit excessive, but through no fault of my own - I ended up with 2 more when I took them home!
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Oh, did I mention I already have 4 adult pekin, Pekin/X?
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Their yard is done!
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(I forgot to put up pics
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Working:
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Done (Yes we still need to remove those 2 T posts
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Still need help painting.................anyone interested yet?
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Thanks!

We are actually pretty happy with how it turned out. So far everything is working as we wanted it to.
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We still have to paint
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also please explain how you set up the area for the water. Thanks and it looks awesome. And green grass too. wow

I'm sorry I missed this.

For the water area; We took a plastic storage tub.
Get the cheapest, it is not going to be put though hard work so you can get a cheap one with a crappy lid (you will not use the lid) Get the biggest one you can find and cut the sides down to about a 1/2 a foot to a foot off of the ground.
Mine is about a foot and a half wide by about 3 feet long (around 1 foot tall – now
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I already had a big tub that had a break in the top so it cost me nothing....

We then made a screen table to go over it:
Made Legs (using 2 x 4) that were just a tad bit taller then the sides of the box and then framed out the top boards (using 1 x 4) tacked the screen sown and then layered another set of 1 x 4 over the screen (to protect from the scratchy cut screen)


To clean it I just pull the screen table off of it and just dump the water out in the yard, I rinse it if there is a lot of food and poop that has fallen in it.

I swear this is the best thing ever - keeps the house CLEAN.

I clean the "coop" out maybe once a week. When I do I toss out less then a 5 gal bucket of soiled bedding.
 
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also please explain how you set up the area for the water. Thanks and it looks awesome. And green grass too. wow

I'm sorry I missed this.

For the water area; We took a plastic storage tub.
Get the cheapest, it is not going to be put though hard work so you can get a cheap one with a crappy lid (you will not use the lid) Get the biggest one you can find and cut the sides down to about a 1/2 a foot to a foot off of the ground.
Mine is about a foot and a half wide by about 3 feet long (around 1 foot tall – now
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)

I already had a big tub that had a break in the top so it cost me nothing....

We then made a screen table to go over it:
Made Legs (using 2 x 4) that were just a tad bit taller then the sides of the box and then framed out the top boards (using 1 x 4) tacked the screen sown and then layered another set of 1 x 4 over the screen (to protect from the scratchy cut screen)


To clean it I just pull the screen table off of it and just dump the water out in the yard, I rinse it if there is a lot of food and poop that has fallen in it.

I swear this is the best thing ever - keeps the house CLEAN.

I clean the "coop" out maybe once a week. When I do I toss out less then a 5 gal bucket of soiled bedding.

That is a great idea, I was trying to figure out how you emptied it. Thanks so much for the info.
 

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