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SSSHHHhhh!!!.....took it while she was Napping!!...she'd 'Shoot' me if she knew....LOL!!!....I'm a BAAaad Boy!! IMAG0847.jpg
 

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Here is a pic from a higher vantage point...revealing the area being worked on and a 'Distant Shot' of the total 'Pen' area for the birds....ducks and 'Dotties'....
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...we are going for the 'Functionality'.....no major 'Eye Candy' here....LOL!!....there are many 'Challenges' that this space presents....but, it does have plenty of Potential....LOL!!!
 

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Who needs eye candy? Birds don't! I like the spot you're using. Feels pretty natural!
It all depends on what takes place with water coming off the hill....into that valley Inside and thru the pen....hoping that I left enough 'Vents' along the way to allow the Pressure to escape....am hoping to work on a place that can hold some water for a couple of days and dry out....it can get rough...this past spring we got 13" of rain in 2.5 days...it was a 'Waterfall' during that time and stayed 'Muddy' for about a wk.....my thinking is that the ducks will hang around there and the 'Dotties' would be on the Higher ground...LOL!!...as long as they get along together...if not...a little wire..and they are separated....there is a bigger 'Common Area' coming....can't wait to watch the reaction of the goats...LOL!!
 

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Haha! It's always fun to see what they do. We had ducks and a stream that runs (usually) 11 months of the year. Sold the ducks a few months ago and we've had a drought so stream has been dry since June.

Sorry but what is a "dottie"?
 

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Haha! It's always fun to see what they do. We had ducks and a stream that runs (usually) 11 months of the year. Sold the ducks a few months ago and we've had a drought so stream has been dry since June.

Sorry but what is a "dottie"?
Oh...the chickens are Golden Laced Wyandottes....so, since we have had them....they and the ducks...they have been separated by a barrier....now it is hardware cloth between them...but, we talk to them differently...and so my wife and I call them 'Dotties' for short.....and if ya was close by...I'd work out a 'Labor Trade' for some 'Rock' to use in that area too!!......ROTF
 

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Oh gotcha! My ducks free ranged but my chickens did not, because my rooster can be nasty on occasion. He got out once and the ducks beat the snot out of him. It was actually pretty funny. He needs a reality check once in a while!

I got new goats this summer that were from a very sheltered "proper" home. They did NOT like the ducks! They've finally come around to the crazy barnyard lifestyle!
 

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Oh so sorry your wife fell and broke her arm! Just what she didn't need! I hope she heals up quickly.

I raised 20 ducks a few years ago for the freezer. They were very messy and slopped a LOT of water out of their pool, plus it RAINED and RAINED! We collected bags of leaves from the curb all over town. I did this every year anyway and dumped them in the coop and run for the chickens, they scratched it to bits, pooped on it and made me lovely compost. So when the ducks made a soupy mess, I put in bags of leaves and that got them out of the poopy mud. I used 40 bags of leaves in the duck pen! After I sent them to that lovely duck resort called freezer camp, I grew corn in the duck pen!

If there are any neighborhoods or a town near you where people rake up leaves and leave them for the trash man, you might want to pick some up to help with the mud in the chicken/duck coop. It sure makes some awesome compost and the leaves are FREE!

Wyandottes are among my favorite chickens. I love the Silver Laced Wyandottes and have one now, we call her Dottie. A few years ago, we bought some Blue Laced Wyandottes and they were beautiful. I love the Golden Laced too, they are so pretty!
 

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Oh so sorry your wife fell and broke her arm! Just what she didn't need! I hope she heals up quickly.

I raised 20 ducks a few years ago for the freezer. They were very messy and slopped a LOT of water out of their pool, plus it RAINED and RAINED! We collected bags of leaves from the curb all over town. I did this every year anyway and dumped them in the coop and run for the chickens, they scratched it to bits, pooped on it and made me lovely compost. So when the ducks made a soupy mess, I put in bags of leaves and that got them out of the poopy mud. I used 40 bags of leaves in the duck pen! After I sent them to that lovely duck resort called freezer camp, I grew corn in the duck pen!

If there are any neighborhoods or a town near you where people rake up leaves and leave them for the trash man, you might want to pick some up to help with the mud in the chicken/duck coop. It sure makes some awesome compost and the leaves are FREE!

Wyandottes are among my favorite chickens. I love the Silver Laced Wyandottes and have one now, we call her Dottie. A few years ago, we bought some Blue Laced Wyandottes and they were beautiful. I love the Golden Laced too, t
These are the first ducks we have had....ever...so, I think we can accomodate them and 'Reap the Rewards' of less Pest....and ducks are suppose to be a 'Good Neighbor' group with goats....eating the snails and slugs that carry parasites goats get....this is our 1st group of 'Dotties'...have had a few different breeds of chickens....RIR mostly....but, personally, I have Never been around a Rhode Island Red rooster that wasn't Mean....of course they didn't last very Long....I will never leave an uncontrolable animal around for very long at all....be it a Gift, Freezer, or feed the buzzards.....thankfully there haven't been many of them....LOL!!
 

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