Oh yes, my 4 ducks DESTROYED the grass section I give them. I put a ramp to the pool too. Nice place you have made for them. Worm farm is SO essential . I enjoyed the video. I let mine out at noon, till they go in at dysk.
Love your ducks. I use my shed for their housing and added a run. In the shed I put down a vinyl sheet floor, added horse pellets to absorb and pine shavings on top of that for bedding. Smells great and less adding and cleaning. The run right now is just dirt and weeds. I'm going to use construction sand for drainage. No food or water in the shed and no food and water when they go to bed. In fact my ducks put themselves to bed and i just lock them in. I have two windows, one full stationary screen door, and two solid doors. I only close the one solid door for now. I have 1/4 inch mesh everywhere. The mulch method is too much for this senior grandma. I feed and water them out of big rubber bowls and l have a baby pool for now. Once I add more of my yard, they will be able to use the pond I already have. I only have 4 Khaki Campbells, 2 boys 2 girls. I'm adding 3 girls in the spring next yr.
Absolutely obsessed with ducks!! I'm loving watching them grow. I watched the first video. Now I'm watching this one. Just loving it. Much love and success to you 🙋🏻💙💙
If you soak your grain in water for 24 hrs then give it to them it will stretch your grain usage and they get more vit and minerals out of the grain an it's more satisfying Because they feel full faster.
Thank you for this, I watched part 1 and now 2. My ducks are on there way, 3 coming and just waiting for a hatch. Good job on the pen/coup great idea here! Always still concerned about them running off...
I raise chickens and I'm about to switch over to ducks. A little trick I learned about the predator control on the base of the coop - use large gravel or what they call "wash rock". You need to spread it about 3-4 inches thick and 1-2 feet out from the base. We have raccoons, possums, foxes and coyotes thick as molasses here and I've never lost a bird to any of them. They simply won't dig through the rocks to tunnel under. Some folks even trench it in down a foot for extra protection but that's really overkill imho.
I've never had a rat dig through it. It's just too much work for them I guess. Now, the mice will scale the 3 foot high hardware cloth I have around the base to go through the chicken wire above it to go steal their food but even that's rare since I have 5 barn patrol cats who do a great job of keeping that population in check.
I got a question for you. Are the white layers good for meat or just eggs only? I'm at a toss up deciding between them and Pekins. I know the White Layers lay more eggs but they're smaller than the Pekin eggs, right? What made your decision for you on them?
You don't let your chickens out with them? Maybe divide the yard, Ducks on the garden side with water and chickens on the compost side? And I know you said it but... what is the breed?
rao m ali ali the feed i used was organic or pesticides / medicine free chicken feed. When they were babies they got baby chicken feed, older they got chicken layer feed.
Tyler Mohning , my ideal would be Muscovy ducks, still a duck, but doesn't quack. I'm done with chickens, mine just would go everywhere if i let them out.
Terrie Friday they were cool about it, but honestly if i didn't go out there the same time every day the ducks would freak out!! If you have neighbors i would recommend Muscovy ducks, totally quiet.
