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Does anyone have any ground cover suggestions that ducks won’t destroy? I know plastic grass is one of the only plants rated for duck pens, but I’m still hoping to find something that will survive them.

I’m sorry. It’s not easy… I was thinking carabiners but the last time I had a raccoon loss it was a big one and a person had tampered with my closure. So I’m going with something a raccoon cannot operate. period.

Many years ago we left a fully feathered batch of chicks in a dog crate in our run overnight. One of the hatches wasn’t secured, a raccoon got into the run and took one of them apart bit by bit. In the morning the bird looked as though it had deflated, but all that was left was feathers and...

Also, chicken wire is great for somethings, but it doesn’t keep things out, we don’t use it on the coops, we only use hardware cloth. We use chicken wire to keep chickens from squeezing out of openings, and from wandering into gardens, but it’s just not safe to use it alone to keep things out...

That rock in the picture behind the pen goes all the way clear to china…. The back wall the burrower would have to burrow under 20 years of dead brush, clear 2 fences and the 3 foot bed of sand and drainage stone. On the other side the burrower would have to clear the shed, and a pile of very...

We don’t get much trouble from burrowing predators during the day here. Our main predators seem to be raccoons and hawks. The pen is surrounded by ledge and other things that make burrowing unlikely and in most places impossible. Their house is going to be secure against any predators that...

Hi all! I have a duck pen in progress here. It will house a pair of BEI/call cross (I think) ducks. The pressure treat rectangle will hold their pond, have a water porch and be filled with sand. The non pond end will have a food and water station. The little house is also not finished. The front...