Will Ducks Go Up a Ramp?

[tbitt]

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How do you clean that out? I have been looking for someway to put the ducks in with the chickens. If you have pictures I would love if you could pm them to me. So I'm not taking over this post.

Or start another thread and post a link to it in here........so we all can see

Back on topic;

I think if you give them reason to use it they will, just make it safe and they will probably get used to it real quick. Heck the babies just hopped right on it...

The big ducsk were adults before we got them and it only took them like 10 minutes to figure out the ramp....they wanted in the pool bad enough!

 

[Baybrio]

I was lucky to get a huge 2'6" tall stock tank to use as a duck pond. The ramp is 8' long and at a pretty steep angle so I put very cheap and thin (easy to clean) carpet runner on the wood to help with traction. Then, because they had no idea why they should go up a ramp in the middle of the yard, I squished peas onto the carpet the first day. They were so interested in eating they didn't even notice the ramp.

 

[Going Quackers]

Mine would not... i think it definitely depends on the duck.. mine are just difficult obviously

 

[sab]

Totes Quackers
PLEASE take a picture and show us your arrangement for the duck under the coop. I started the thread and am expanding it to include this option. I'm in the process of setting up my coop for 5 chickens and a duck. I need to make that duck area under the coop predator free. And if she won't go up the ramp - that is my only other option.

Thanks!!

 

[ChickInDelight]

Ducks are hogs! Let your chickens enjoy thier own space. Ducks like to get under stuff. Sounds like you need one more duck.

 

[CountryLivingNow]

I'm struggling with the same problem. The 5 six week old ducklings (Cayuga) won't use the ramp. It is 11" wide and ~ 38" long and the slope is close to 45%. This has been week one, but it is frustrating because they seem to come down it somewhat in the morning, but at dusk I have to bring out a bowl of treats and while they are busy eating I pick them up one by one and place them in the coop - however, there was one who would not fall for the ploy and the only way I got him in the coop was to snag him with a fishing net scoop. Now tonight it was him & one other duck, so I had to snag two. The ramp has thin cross bars spaced 4.5" apart, so traction isn't the issue. They camp out underneath the coop which is good because that is their only cover from the elements outdoors. Their 40 X 40 pen is super predator proof. By the way I'm totally new to this Farmer Brown business. We are definitely out in the country.
5 dogs (4 were roadside fines - skeletal in some cases, 1 with bad case of heartworms (still being treated but he is improving, another was a 6 week old puppy running along the side of the road) & 3 rescue cats (one was a roadside fine that was skeletal & had to feed him every 2 hours to bring him back to health)