duck pen

Quick recap - At the moment we have 2 factions of ducks that live in relative harmony for the situation: -1 male pekin 1 female pekin They sleep in the large duck pen by the large pond that is shared by everyone (as well as all the wild ducks) - 1 male cayuga 1 female cayuga 1 female...

Expanding my duck pen The metal T posts are up and tomorrow cementing in the wooden posts for the gate (wish i could do wooden posts completely but due to roots of the large tree not possible) Question comes in fencing material: i have a nice big 6 foot tall x 50ft long roll of standard chicken...

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...

Hey everyone, I just wondered what everyone's strategies were to keeping their duck pens/runs clean. I keep my ducks in pens rather than free-ranging them because they're pets and I don't want to worry about predators, etc. etc. The pens are smaller than I'd like because of space...

Any ideas about turning one of these XX-Large dog houses into an outdoor duck coop? I use one as an Indoor house for them right now and was wondering what upgrades it would need to be put outside. Any ideas??

Using straw in my duck pen, trying to figure out the water corner and our instant fly problem. I have fly traps which help...a little. Reading other threads I’m going to add fly paper. Water corner is now a raised bed of pea gravel with decomposed granite on top with water buckets sitting in...

I will be picking my mom up from a week visit with my sister. Crossing my fingers and toes the Starkey crew will have a house and half pen finished when I get home. Pictures when I do move them to their new forever home. Next week the other half will be completed (town is out of hardware...

Hi! Im looking into getting some wild duck species in the future, white faced whistling specifically but other species as well, and I was wondering about the construction of a pen for them. For one, how big it should be, two, what materials to use and how to properly protect it from predators...

After getting some ideas from other users I built some of my own raised pens for my Black East Indies. I thought I would share mine with everyone too! I’m very happy with how it turned out. Still need to put metal on the roof and a couple other things.

I have two fast growing Pekin ducks, and I feel like the current place that they sleep in (I have a plastic bin in which they sleep in currently to keep their poop in one place over night) is getting extremely cramped, to the point where it is difficult for them to move). I want to create a...

Who here owns Muscovy ducks? I’ve been raising Muscovys for 3-4 years now and have owned anywhere from 25-35 at a time. We’ve had to move twice in the past year and our flock has changed a lot. The house we initially lived at had what I felt like was a medium/large fenced in back yard out in the...

Hi everyone! We currently have 1 Pekin duck and will be adding 6 Barred Rocks to her pen when they come out of the brooder. I would like advice on our ideas of adding a coop area. Our pen is 10ft x 10ft x 6 1/2ft tall. I will be adding natural branch perches at all heights. For the nesting area...

I have five, four, and three week old ducklings and I finally got the duck house built in the section of the yard that I designated for the duckpen, but I need some landscap--I mean DUCKscaping advice! The duck-pen area was a part of the yard that hasn't been used for anything for a while and...

I have 3 Rouen ducklings. I am fairly certain they are production Rouens, not show. We purchased them Blain's Farm & Fleet. They are just over 2 weeks old now. We have been feeding them duckling grower feed. They have access to water as well. We used a clean garbage can lid that's about 2'x2' as...

Does anyone know where I can get an appropriately sized pen for two ducks for a reasonable price? I need one that would be able to keep other animals out.

It’s been raining for days and it’s super muddy back there. I put new straw down last night and this morning it’s drench and gross. There isn’t any grass anymore just dirt. So, it gets pretty muddy right now. Straw isn’t working. I’ve seen some people say sand works? Any advice would be great.

I have seen a lot of threads with duck pens and some with preformed pond liners. My question is, how do those that have them, drain them to clean them? Did you attach something like a shower or kitchen sink drain to the bottom with a plug or something like pvc fittings with a cap? I need...

I left the ducks out for the first time last night even though the pen isn’t quite finished. The wire is all up and the house is put together. I have locks on the gate but we plan to add a pitched tarp (just temporary plastic cover right now) to the house side, I have a bigger pool, and I’m...

Hi there, I am going to be a new duck (4) owner in about a month, along with Flemish Giant rabbits (2). We are in the process of converting 2 horse stalls into separate duck/rabbits dens that will have an attached outdoor pen. The outdoor pen will be approximately 50' x 16', predator...