Let's Build An Underwater Duck Enclosure | The ULTIMATE Duck Run

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In this video, we build an in-water duck enclosure for my friend who just got ducks. Let's take a look!
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@Yeshuaschosen 3 месяца назад

Buying baby ducks back in the 90's convinced me to write ducks off for life! Never again! Love this predator proof run in the water!

@OldReddingFarm 3 месяца назад

I'm with you we had ducks once and never will again. This was a build for a friend. Ducks make too big of a mess!

@MinnieAcresFarm 3 года назад

I love how the beginning of this video is like an infomercial 😂

@SonniesPlace 3 года назад

I love the idea! I've been brainstorming a way to get our ducks onto the pond safely. We also have several predators to protect them from and need to figure out how to keep their section free of ice come winter. Now my mind is racing with ideas!

@AlongTheRiverHomestead 3 года назад

note to self, Krissy you will never get ducks, LOL! John I watched till the end and I wanted to see the ducks in all their glory, show us the damn ducks in the enclosure, LOL! BTW it looks great!

@OldReddingFarm 3 года назад

LOL sorry, next video, promise !! but yes, don't get ducks. save yourself.

@anndorman4030 3 года назад

Wow! So much thought and work!! Sure hopes Eileen appreciates what she got!

@426superbee4 3 года назад

Ducks are excellent eating tho ~ THAT 1 thing i love about ducks ~ "Ain't no rest for the wicked" ~ Life must go on! I got bills to pay, things to do, and a little bit of play! 😆 Some one love ducks he hee ~ mine never did stink, nor dirty, they did more good than bad ~ Humans poop more than ducks do, Look at all the good fertilizer there spreading ~ Up by the Great Lakes, man tried to build things into there natural territory ! Warehouse, offices buildings, homes, ect. They poop all over every thing they built 👍 idk how many billions of dollars was lost? It now, all lays in ruins, today!

@veronagrey6313 5 месяцев назад

That’s AMAZING !!!

@wendyhardnack5915 3 года назад

Oh how neat! Wow! Wendy Hardnack Farms❤️🧚🏻🐞

@Citystead 3 года назад

Killing it buddy! That thing is great and your right ducks never stop pooping like ever! We had ducks once upon a time and they were crazy messy

@marymountain2432 2 года назад

I love my ducks!

@OldReddingFarm 2 года назад

I'm glad! We never liked having our own ducks that much so we were happy to work on someone else's duck projects and not have our own for now.

@819lindagirl1 3 года назад

raccoons will go true the chicken wire it happened to me i used wired mesh cool looking and very well done Johnny Boy!!!

@thenewbiesteaders 3 года назад

That is seriously so cool! Ive never seen anything like it before. We gotta see a video of the ducks in it! 🦆🦆🦆

@OldReddingFarm 3 года назад

Hah yes we will add some footage with the ducks into the next video for sure

@conniedalton7198 4 месяца назад

Great job

@OldReddingFarm 4 месяца назад

Thank you

@AnnaPhillips-b1p 13 дней назад

They don't actually do all that much pooping in the water. Ducks are 'filter feeders' and will scoop up mud and dirt in their mouths, and swish through the water to filter out tiny things like seeds, tiny invertebrates, etc. The dirt comes out and the edibles stay in. But yes, it absolutely makes a huge mess of the water! SO MUCH MUDDY SLUDGE! But this is a gorgeous duck palace. My guys would love to be able to access my swamp out back from their run, but there are 20+ of them, so it wouldn't work really well, unfortunately.

@HallHomestead 3 года назад

Don't forgot that nasty thing where they make those mud slurry puddles by moving their heads back and forth and making that nasty sound, and then drink it!

@426superbee4 3 года назад

There just cleaning the water from snails, water bugs and bad things

@HallHomestead 3 года назад

@@426superbee4 mine would do it to fresh water right out of the tap - spill it out onto the ground, make a mud hole, and eat it.

@426superbee4 3 года назад

@@HallHomestead he hee got to love em. That ducks for you, they love water and mud.. That how they get grit into there stomachs , to digest there food. like chickens eat ground up shells and pea gravel and things

@OldReddingFarm 3 года назад

Hah, good point! Ducks are super gross for tons of reasons.

@deewormsvermicomposting 3 года назад

How awesome is this ? Great job 👍

@OldReddingFarm 3 года назад

Thank you 🤗

@beulahacreshomestead1927 3 года назад

Cool idea!

@OldReddingFarm 3 года назад

Thanks!

@BBKERNSALLNhomestead 3 года назад

Where's the ducks???????

@robertfaber6796 3 года назад

Interesting idea. Depending on how many ducks there are and how much they are fed, it might work without fouling the pond to badly, at least when the water level is high. The pond appears to be largely covered by duckweed. Whatever reaches into range of the ducks will make an excellent food source and could reduce the need for purchased food.

@OldReddingFarm 3 года назад

Yah the ducks have def. Kept that one little section of pond clear of duck weed which has been nice.

@426superbee4 3 года назад

Does your Emue require some kind of grind up shells or gravel ect? like chickens and ducks? to help digest there foods? We had plenty of sand for them to eat too, but they needed the sharp shells, and pea gravel

@hilltopflowers9934 3 года назад

Love it! Amazing!

@OldReddingFarm 3 года назад

Thank you!!

@EventheSparrowHomestead 3 года назад

That’s the truth! Ours are super messy as well! Like the idea for sure! I don’t think the coop area would be big enough for our ducks. Will you be doing a follow up video with the ducks in it!?

@ThePond2023 Год назад

great video. There are many species of ducks that aren't loud but all ducks are messy lol. Sand works great for keeping the mud down in their pens wherever they can get into water and make a mess. why did you put the wire on the inside vs on the outside of the pen?

@OldReddingFarm Год назад

I put the wire on the inside vs outside just for aesthetics, so that you wouldn't see the fasteners and seams from the outside

@Janderra 3 года назад

5 minutes your being generous I think it is closer to 5 seconds and the water is gross 😉

@OldReddingFarm 3 года назад

Hah yes you're probably right. Ducks are messy little devils

@AlpacaMade 3 года назад

Geese. They out poop the ducks here in the Mitt. I do like your duck sanctuary; had a similar duck-run plotted out for a property I was looking at a couple of years ago😉👍

@OldReddingFarm 3 года назад

Hah well if geese poop more than ducks then geese will never be for me! They also look so mean ! hard pass over there.

@GardeningintheNorth 3 года назад

This is a great idea! 😀 maybe show us an update video of the ducks in it to see how they like it.

@Maybe_Crazy05 3 года назад

That is freakin amazing.. Sorry I’ve been mia, life has been crazy hectic here for me. But seriously I absolutely think this coop and run is brilliant.

@OldReddingFarm 3 года назад

Never need to apologize for crazy life! Its so hard to keep up !

@rachel-mrs.dustygoathomest6453 3 года назад

This thing is ridiculously cool!!

@OldReddingFarm 3 года назад

Thank you !

@jayjohnson7728 Год назад

This is amazing.

@heatherwright7168 7 месяцев назад

Now I want a Shangrila duck pond and coop😂

@catherineholcomb4488 Год назад

looks like a great set up. how do you really feel about ducks??

@CelestionPhoenix 2 года назад

This is brilliant! I bet you could get paid to make more of these for other people.

@OldReddingFarm 2 года назад

This was actually a paid build for someone else! We don't have ducks any more. Glad you liked it !

@slowmochicken Год назад

How did this hold up? Also, have you been struck by duck math? Lol i have! I have 20, most i hatched myself after most of my chicken flock was wiped out by a weasel! It killed my Drake and seriously injured my 2 girls (pekins). So I gathered every egg i could find and incubated them. I love my ducks, i was there when they were "born" 😂

@stephanied9629 5 месяцев назад

Very cool. Only criticism is that you used chicken wire and not hardware cloth. Chicken wire is to contain chicken or in the case, ducks, it does not protect them from predators. Snakes, minks, weasels, mice, rats, etc can all get in that enclosure.

@stephanied9629 5 месяцев назад

Also the pond needs an aerator.

@OldReddingFarm 5 месяцев назад

Yup I hear you! This was built for someone who was paying to have it built, not at my own property. Budgets sometimes dictate materials.