what about this for a duck house? pic...

[Amiga]

I might pick up a few piles to put on plants, but mostly I just stir it well - the shavings dry things out quite nicely. Food and water are out in the porch area where there's sawdust over sand over hardware cloth. The sawdust gets fluffed up with a cultivator daily, then every week or two the top couple of inches get shoveled out and put on the compost or under a shrub.

 

[wackwack]

oh i cant wait for them to have a new bigger bed, i am having to do a pretty big clean out every day......

deposit paid on house!!! i get it saturday!! Lino bought!!!! wood sticks ready for the top of lino and screws bought!

new mini splash pond for indoors and new wood pellets bought to go under the wood shavings as their bed!

yay...
pics to follow dont worry!!!!

 

[Amiga]

 

[ChickInDelight]

 

[Miss Lydia]

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[wackwack]

hi, I'm back.... been so busy but i didnt forget that i promised photos......
duckies lurve their new house. its fab, an because they like it so much and get dinner etc inside, it means if i need them to go in 5 mins before dark they will, with it fully dark now by 5pm that really helps take some pressure off me with the horses!
so....i dont have many pics...the weather has been awful all week and its dull and damp etc...next nice day we get i will take proper pics

it does need a lick of paint...it was a dog kennel for a few months....and it took me a whole day to put it back together and modify it for ducks. it also took a whole day to go get it!

i put the lino all around the floor and walls in the sleeping part (on the left-off pic) and in most of the run part, i ran out of lino

i have wood sticks to put around the lino but only get time at the weekends so will have to do it in a few days!

the steps i made with 2 pieces of wood, the floor in the sleeping part is slightly higher than ground level but i didnt want them dragging out all the bedding so i raised the steps above the height of the bedding and it works perfect. they have no problem going in and out and bedding stays put!!!

at this stage (5th night in it) the grass is now mud. i had hoped to get some grass mats, rubber mats with holes in, that i could put down and put sand over but every single place is out of stock of the mats but they can go down on mud anyway....
once i have that sorted i have a small tub for them to have s splash about in at night time, but it cant be too big otherwise i will never get it in and out to clean it!

they still come in and out every day, i just let that door open and they dont actually go back in until i put their dinner in, hopefully tomorrow i can get them back on adlib feeder, they are a bit less greedy now that they have settled into their routine.

i was thinking about getting another runner because i felt guilty that i had left her at the breeders, but apparently he now has a runner drake too, so shes happy and in the spring once i find a use for 3 duck eggs a day, then i might get 2 calls!!!!!

anyway
thats my lot for now.
its not the prettiest yet, gimme time and a bit of paint and it will be super beautiful, ducks dont seem bothered by beauty tho, they are soooo much happier, they even let me in the run part tonight while they were in there, a few days ago all hell broke loose when i just tried to close the door...
only thing is, they now FLY out of the door every morning, because they can....but they have also been dooing a bit of flight practice in the garden/enclosure........ i thought runners couldnt fly? they are up to 4 feet high and 8-10 feet in distance......
will they go higher/farther when there is no net over them?????????

 

[Miss Lydia]

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Not sure I've ever heard of runners flying, I doubt they can go far, they don't look like a breed that could fly well, but i love your new coop really cool; and i can't imagine why they wouldn't like it. Great pics and looking forward to seeing it after you have painted it..

 

[wackwack]

i guess its not full flight, sort of a flap flap and a high jump, but they are getting way too good at it....at this rate without the net they may get over the fence...i got non flight birds cause the fence is only 4 foot.....hmm..... they come flying out of the house so not a run-jump, no room to get up a run, and they land at far side of their garden, which is about 8 or 10 feet....great...my runners are freaks!!! whats new, all m animals are!!
i did beg ms puddle (the pekin duck) for just one egg when she was going to bed today...she looked right up at me, i still check every day.... spring is so far away... maybe if i buy some eggs and stick them in there she'll get jealous and make her own... oh well....
oops 1.15am, good night!
happy thanks giving america! have some pumpkin pie for me

i love the stuff but am highly allergic to pumpkin

swollen lips and emergency injections an all....cant even go near them in the shops, thank goodness we only have them at haloween....
enjoy! i'm jealous!