Duck flooring help please!

Hello, I have 11 gorgeous ducklings in my duck shed, and currently they are living very happily on wood shavings, but since they play with their water so much, I'm having to muck them out every 2 days  I've read that ecopetbed is better becuase t's more absorbent and can be composted (I hate throwing all the wood shavings away). Does anyone have any experience of this or any other ideas? I'd love to be able to only muck them out once a week like I do with my hens!

Thanks so much

Thanks for such a quick answer! I'll certainly try to section it off a bit, that would definitey help  I think I may also try hemcore - I'd feel better composting than just throwing the shavings away in bin bags 

Hi.

I generally use hemcore which I love! It is so much more absorbant than wood shavings and composts down in a fraction of the time. I have used aubiose too and that is very good too. Tend to use hemcore as that is what's available near me rather than it is better but would never go back to shavings!

Unfortunately ducks are mucky little things and while you have ducklings in a shed on any bedding, mucking out is going to be an almost daily thing rather than weekly. Once they are out during the day in summer mine really only go into their house to have a nap and lay and the bedding stays fresh fir weeks.
In winter when they are in a lot more of the time it gets terrible really quickly. As they poo on it and trample it down you get a sort of crust on the top of the bedding (sounds revolting and I'm not describing it well). With the hemcore all you have to do is scrape this top bit off every day or two (bit like poo picking with hens) bung it in the compost, leaving the fresh stuff underneath behind. Give that a stir up to stop it getting impacted and if it starts looking a little thin just add more bedding. Every week or so do a proper clean out.

Hemcore sounds really good, I hadn't heard of it until tonight....where is the cheapest/best place to buy it?

Thanks Joyfull.