Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Poultry and Pets => The Hen House => Topic started by: Rubellite on August 11, 2009, 16:20
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If I were to build a duck house for on the island in the pond, it obviously wouldn't have a door but what would I use for the floor? If I had an ordinary wooden floor with chippings or straw, it would get waterlogged and stinky in no time at all, would I be able to have a mesh floor? Any ideas?
Don't envisage being able to muck it out very often, would it be better with no duck house, just shrubs/plants?
Thanks
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Could you make an open fronted shelter Rubes? Then plant some bushy things round the front? Grasses and the like ?
Sarah :D
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Better contact Peter Viggers MP
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Better contact Peter Viggers MP
:D Do you have his number?
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I presume that's why they're generally floating and tethered, so you can pull them in for cleaning.
You'd need to get to it to clean it out every so often.
Have you got a little bridge ?
Waders ?
Bog snorkelling ?
Pole vaulting ? :blink:
Rob 8)
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Got no water at the moment, Rob, but have a pair of waders which will be ok IF it doesn't fill too far. Think I'm going to have to get some stilts, it's not that big I need a boat.
The neighbours will really take the mick if They see me paddling a boat across 8 feet of water! :wacko:
At the moment I'm mucking out every other day, can't see me donning the waders that often, by the time I get them off it'll be time to put them on again!!!!! :lol:
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I always wanted a pond big enough for an island. Biggest I managed was about 8' x 5' but sadly no island. :(
I love ponds ::)
Rob 8)
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I always wanted a pond big enough for an island. Biggest I managed was about 8' x 5' but sadly no island. :(
I love ponds ::)
Rob 8)
Awwww, you can share mine. What do you want to swim on it? :happy:
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ducks. lots of 'em. :D
Rob 8)
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I'd like a pond!
If you wanted to make a duck house for your island, places like solway feeders do plastic flooring for chicken houses. they are about £10 each, and are 2ft x 4ft I think. they are slatted, so wouldn't rot and if you laid them over joists raised off the ground, you can just lift them out for cleaning and most of the poo would drop onto the ground. Just rake it out!
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Just had a look Ann. Brilliant. :)
http://www.solwayfeeders.com/productsdetail1.asp?STOCK_CODE=1810
Rob 8)
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Thank you all. :)
I will have an open fronted duck hut with some grasses for cover and a plastic holey floor!
....................and a launch pad to get there - rivet rivet (that's frog speak) :lol: :lol:
I'm off to bed, think I've finally lost the plot ;)
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Rivet Rivet?? Are your frogs mechanics then Rubellite??? lol our frogs say ribbet ribbet!!! :D :D
Yes Rob I like that flooring oh just noticed the price has gone up to £11.50 a sheet. Used to be £10!!! I'd love it in the chicken houses, but for my houses now, I'd need about 70 of them, and even with the discount, they'd still cost nearly £700!! :(
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Train them all to poo in one corner ;) :D
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Rivet Rivet?? Are your frogs mechanics then Rubellite??? lol our frogs say ribbet ribbet!!! :D :D
Nah, these are Essex frogs - lol!! :tongue2: