Need Ideas.. Duck Houses

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mommto3kiddos

mommto3kiddos

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My husband and I cant agree on a duck house for our 2 pekins. He said just stick a dog house into their pen, b/c he doesn't think they will use one at all. Me Im wanting to take a huge shipping crate he brought home from his shop and tear it down and build the girls a kinda wood house.

Does anyone have pictures of their duck houses?? I tried googling some and all I get is duck pens or pond houses..
 
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Here is a picture of our duck house. We will use it mainly to keep them protected at night.
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Recently I added another layer of 1/2" x 1/2" hardware cloth over the exsisting 1"x1" welded wire. I also added some sheet metal on the roofs and some heavy duty tires underneath to be able to move it around ALOT easier.
 
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Oh i love it! See I want a little house like that for my girls.. Do they use it on their own??
 
I just moved them into it on Saturday evening and it/they are kept inside the garage. I think they like it. We try to let them out to excercise for awhile each day. In the next 1-2 weeks we will keep the ramp down for them to forage during the day.
 
I have a mansion for our chickens and ducks and the stupid ducks prefer to be outside at night....there are lots of puddles in the yard right now because of the recent rains, and my ground won't absorb it. There are 14 of them, and trying to round them up would be funny if I were watching...but I am the one standing in the rain, in a puddle, with my arms outstretched looking like a goon and scurrying from one "pond" to another.......and a few go in, but if I turn my back they come back out again....


Really annoying. So, I let them decide. I know since I get eggs in there, at least some go in at night. When I am out there "scaring them" I end up with less in the coop, or out of breath from corralling all of them in there.

I absolutely LOVE the duck house your hubby made! It is wonderful, he should make more and sell them!

we have not had any issues with predators......yet......
 
OMGOSH WHAT AN AMAZING AMAZING DUCK COOP! That is so incredibly GORGEOUS! I love it! I would so totally buy one, incredible. I would post pics of mine, but it is dirty right now, maybe I'll post some after Spring cleaning. It is basically a really old wooden calf hutch with windows and a door cut out. I have a floor now too! They love it!
 
5x5' 1/2" plywood house, 4' at front to 6' at the back. Shingled roof. It's about 6 inches off the ground. Venting about 4' long 6" wide along the top above the door covered in 1/4" hardware cloth. Lot's of wood shavings inside. They go in on their own as soon as it gets dark. 3 mallard hens, 1 Rouen hen and 1 Rouen drake. I'm afraid it's the chickens who have the luxury suite......
 
I LOVE that house!!!!! The white one is beautiful as well. I won't show them to the ducks. They're already jealous about the chicken coop and have been trying to camp out in there at night lately. The chickens will have NONE of that.
 
Here is my duck house - it's divided in two with a mesh sheet and one lot of 5 ducks have the pen facing the photo (where the ducks are standing on the ramp) and the other lot of 3 ducks have the pen off to the right hand side. They are in here when I am not at home and at night. When I'm home they are out in the yard. It's high enough to walk into (which is great for cleaning). The walls and ceiling are insulated to keep it cool in summer. The blue curved things you can see right at the back are nest bxes made out of a cut up plastic barrel. The blue things at the front are automatic waterers (normally used for dogs but great for ducks as well). The pond and waterers drain to a drip irrigation system that pumps the water onto the vegetable garden (via a filter). Their food is kept just inside the house to keep it dry - I use non-tip steel dog bowls as they don't get knocked over. The raised base that the whole thing is sitting on is made of treated pine railway ties and these are filled with a layer of gravel and then a layer of sand. It drains really well and is really easy to keep clean. The ducks are Swedish - a mix of black, splash and blue.

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