Happypotter
In the Brooder
- Jun 20, 2019
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They are enclosed with chicken wire but they could put their bills through. They want to get inthey park themselves right up against the wire- or more likely the Drake wants to .@Happypotter are your ducks out where the Mallards can be with them? I was for some reason thinking they weren't in with your ducks.
So true! The main set up with the roof has electric fence around it and cattle panels that the chicken wire is on and they are in the sturdy coop that is on thick rubber stall mats on top of asphalt drive so nothing can dig into them in the sleeping coop and it’s close to our house , If I am not at the house they stay inside the main electrified area. I am getting the electric poultry fence so I can have a safer “ outdoor” area for them and allow for ease of moving it around the main structure to let areas rest if they kill the grass off, it’s a work in progress these are my first ducks and I have had them a year, my favorite thing I did was sink a 55 gal. Rubber maid tub into the ground( I have it in all the way to the top edge now, you can see the corner of it in the pic. I am feeding a duck in( McGee)other pic shows before I got the energy up to dig it out more, I drilled a hole in the bottom and put a shower drain in it and siliconed it up and attached 5 feet of 2” pvc pipe and it’s very easy to drain and clean , put pea gravel with landscape edging around it and have no issues with mud in the covered “ outdoor area” so far. The covered area is $199 car port I got at tractor supply and didn't use all the “height” poles, worked perfectly with the cattle panels and has been up a year now in all the strong winds and storms.That’s a nice set up you have there. You know chicken wire keeps nothing out only poultry in?