Duck nesting box ideas

You can either provide your birds a place to lay their eggs where you can easily collect them or they will find their own space - building chicken & duck nest boxes

Discover 6 creative chicken nesting box designs. Make chicken raising a breeze with these innovative ideas.

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Have a barrier on your nest boxes, to prevent bedding from being scratched/kicked out. Now another question.. What are you using for bedding in your nest...

Backtrack just a little... [IMG] We got our first Muscovy ducks this past Autumn and created a little pasture for them with fencing and a converted...

Ducks are like chickens in certain habits but they both have different egg-laying habits. Chickens keep their eggs clean while ducks make them dirty, A Chicken always lays eggs in the nest. She waits if another hen is laying. if an emergency, she sits along with her but always lays an egg in the nest.

We needed nesting boxes for our ducks and geese.This is how we threw some together from scrap materials we had around the farm.

Furnishing nests for your ducks to lay in helps keep the eggs clean and protects them from being cooked by sun, washed by rain, or frozen in cold weather.

The chooks are happy! - by Rebecca Lowrey Boyd

Make your own nest boxes for free using empty cat litter tubs. You can even paint them to match your chicken coop! They are super cute and completely washable, so they're easier to clean then traditional wood nest boxes.