Ducks are messier and stinkier than chickens. One thing I am glad I didn't do was to put a kiddie swimming pool inside the shed. It is bad enough that I need to redo the floor in there. The ducks and the head rooster get along swimmingly (just had to say that), because the head rooster was raised up with a Khaki Campbell duck, and they were best buds until Rumor got killed.
Hope you didn't get Muscovy ducks - they can be pretty aggressive to the chickens and other ducks they live with. I had a cute little half Mallard, half Muscovy girl, Twee, who was really sweet. A coon killed her and I went over to the dark side and helped kill the coon. Twee was my baby.
Now I got two males that are dumb as foxes, that I kind of now wished I had not adopted. They are about six years old. Ducks can live about anywhere, and eat just about anything chickens eat, DO NOT FEED MEDICATED FEED TO DUCKS - THEY CAN OVERDOSE ON IT AND GET SICK AND/OR DIE. Unlike chickens, ducks gobble up their food as quickly as they can, while chickens pick and peck. Hope that helps, Em.
Anita B., SW Ohio
On 5/20/2014 12:06 AM, gothchickenlady gothchickenlady@yahoo.com [CHICKENS-101] wrote:
Hope you didn't get Muscovy ducks - they can be pretty aggressive to the chickens and other ducks they live with. I had a cute little half Mallard, half Muscovy girl, Twee, who was really sweet. A coon killed her and I went over to the dark side and helped kill the coon. Twee was my baby.
Now I got two males that are dumb as foxes, that I kind of now wished I had not adopted. They are about six years old. Ducks can live about anywhere, and eat just about anything chickens eat, DO NOT FEED MEDICATED FEED TO DUCKS - THEY CAN OVERDOSE ON IT AND GET SICK AND/OR DIE. Unlike chickens, ducks gobble up their food as quickly as they can, while chickens pick and peck. Hope that helps, Em.
Anita B., SW Ohio
On 5/20/2014 12:06 AM, gothchickenlady gothchickenlady@yahoo.com [CHICKENS-101] wrote:
Mine just sleep on the floor in the house with some of the chickens. She has a nest area she likes to hide eggs. They free range during the day with the chickens. My other set sleeps in another house with a different bunch of chickens. I never bothered making them anything special and they seem to do just fine.
If you have babies and decided to brooder them yourself, be prepared. They stink a lot worse than chickens. And the mess has almost caused a separation. lol
Gothy
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