Do it yourself mobile duck tractor.
Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/selfsufficientme (the top tier $25 AU enables mentoring from yours truly via an exclusive VIP email where I will answer your questions etc ASAP).
My second channel: https://bit.ly/331edDu
Using the links below also helps support my channel:
Help support the Channel and buy a T-shirt/Merchandise from our Spreadshirt shop: https://goo.gl/ygrXwU or Teespring https://bit.ly/2Z5t0f6
Go here to get Birdies Raised Garden bed in the USA: https://shop.epicgardening.com/ and use SSME2020 for a 5% discount (unfortunately discount doesn’t apply in Australia or UK)
Check out www.gardentoolsnow.com/ for tools such as the Prong I recommend to use.
Shop for plants or garden equip on eBay Australia: https://bit.ly/2BPCykb
Blog: http://www.selfsufficientme.com/ (use the search bar on my website to find info on certain subjects or gardening ideas)
Forum: http://www.selfsufficientculture.com
Facebook: https://bit.ly/2Zi5kDv
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SufficientMe
Subscribe to my channel: http://goo.gl/cpbojR
Self Sufficient Me is based on our small 3-acre property/homestead in SE Queensland Australia about 45kms north of Brisbane – the climate is subtropical (similar to Florida). I started Self Sufficient Me in 2011 as a blog website project where I document and write about backyard food growing, self-sufficiency, and urban farming in general. I love sharing my foodie and DIY adventures online so come along with me and let’s get into it! Cheers, Mark ๐
You could make friends with them and get them to trust you, by not manhandling them, but enticing them. You could make that dog cage into a refuge for them, not a cage. A place where they can feel safe, fed and their water would be in there. So they can come and go during the day. They be home at night. If they can free range around and come back to their refuge, you can always get them rounded up, without having to scare the shit out of them.
It must be very hot
'short' shorts
The dog kennel is working. Put wheels on it, I would also enforce it with the electric fencing around it, or electrify the kennel itself. That would add the extra measure of security from the snakes.
Raising little ducks so you can lop their heads off and go 'yum yum' for 10 minutes when youre already pretty fat. Ok then
Add 2x pivot Jockey Wheels to one end with lift handles to the opposite the end for ease of movement. Also maybe cut an access shoot / trap door on the opposite door to the main door – line up the house with the new 'shoot' and at the end of the day open both shoots and the ducks should learn to enter / exit (or encourage them into 'bed')
I would look at one of those compacting dog tunnels for pushing them through one end to the other instead of plastic fencing.
You could maybe wrap the side panels in shade cloth or dew barrier plastic (construction plastic). It would as less mass to the cage than a metal net and give more protection from the elements
Get a portable electric fence and build one of Justin Rhodes' meatshaws. The meatshaw is a completely moveable solution to moving poultry around a pasture or yard and providing shelter for them from predators and the sun, while remaining easy to move. It's basically a roof on wheels. Underneath, there's about 15-18 inches of clearance off the ground, I think. He uses Premier One nets for his meat birds. They're easy to set up and work well with either a solar energizer or an electrical line run from the grid. He recently used it with his ducks and geese he raised for meat and it worked out really well.
Welcome to the world ducks. I haven't raised any foul sooo what do I know! But is there some reason the Quail and ducks trade places?
why not just do it with the ducks still inside
This dude rules I've been watching since way back. You can grow everything you eat
And now for some thing completely different. Mark, you should get some bunnies!
I can vouch for having the wheels on a lever or bar. We installed one on our chicken tractor this spring, and it made it so much easier to operate!
Pppppppppa
That's waaaaay to much work lol. I think as others have said you need to make a small permanent duck house in the dog run, maybe on the end where the wheels would go. Or get something to protect the ducks and let them go. My ducks and chickens cohabitate so I don't have to worry about this and I have some turkeys to keep the hawks away.
4:04 little bird in background pecking away Don't mind me! notices human gets slightly closer and doot doot doots across lawn What kind of cute bird are those? It seemed to be quite comfortable around you!
What happened to the 2 Appleyards u had last time? Did they ever lay well.
I would put wheels just on one end. And follow the advise of pivoting, but with wheels you will (with some effort) move it anywhere. And second you could replace the plastic net on the guinea-pig "house" and put some two wood-frames (with mesh) that expand the length of the "house" just momentarily for the ducks to move to and from the house. Use hinges fold to them back to the 'house' and not occupy the space all the time or like a corridor doors, so they can extend and retract (occupying the same space as the guinea-pig 'house'). I am so sorry man, it is extremely difficult to explain, but i hope you got the picture.
What about doing the bottom of the pen with hardware cloth and maybe wrap the bottom portion with wood?
I think I almost died laughing watching you scare them into the guini pig hutch lmao thank you for that
https://youtu.be/Ler_Jk8PoA8 . Thought of you when I watched it. Hope it helps.
Who saw the chicken/duck running in the background 4:17
What happened to your right hand, I saw a large spot like stitched.
Metal and Timber Mesh the floor.. It's What Alot of People Do..
When I had ducks, I trained them to follow me for a food reward. They LOVE cracked maize. They would only get it if they followed me to wherever I wanted them to spend the night, or the day. It was fast and infallable. Time I spent training them was more than regained in time saved hearding or chasing, or channelling with fencing.
Why don't the ducks fly away? Are they flightless?
You've probably already figured out an easier method to move the dog run by now.. but here's my suggestion: it's typically easier to push than pull.. so put a board/stick thru the chain link fence on both sides from the inside, and then lift and push it to the new location!!
Also.. the little tractor has a floor and wheels… Just roll it with the ducklings inside over to the new location right up to the dog run's door and let them loose!! No need to touch them at all. Same with getting them in the tractor.. just block the doorway with the tractor and the dog kennel door when herding them into the tractor.
Just make a close in pen at one end so you can lock them in at night and moving and fold down wheel at a each corner is a great idea keep up the good work
Duck season or Rabbit season?
Yikes! Pythons. Wow.