Duck Running On Wood Floor

First begin with giving your ducks a solid floor under their coop.

Duck running on wood floor.

3 day old baby ducks walking around on the wooden floor they re so cute. So you must predator proof their coop. Ducks do not need or use hanging nesting boxes like chickens. While the run didn t need to be small i also didn t want to spend too much money on this project.

They are smart little creatures. It should be wood cement or even vinyl to stop critters from coming up from under the coop. Painted chicken coop floors. Nest boxes in your duck coop should be about 14 square inches on the floor level and give you easy access to collect eggs from the coop door or from an external nesting box access door.

This video of a moose running across a river is crazy and people are calling him the moosiah. Painted wood or plywood has all the pros of wood floors and one additional pro. You want to plan for 15 sq ft of run space per duck compared to 8 10 sq ft for chickens. The paint provides added protection against wood rot.

The white molding covering the line between the wood and the gray kitchen flooring material ties in the color of the island and feels better to me than if the molding had matched either the gray flooring or the wood. That waddle gets me every time. A duck s biggest predator is probably a raccoon. Second your ducks need windows in their coop for ventilation.

Animals awww ducks top. Sometimes you just have to pick a spot and run a line this transition lines up with the wall but not the island.