I think it's time to build the mobile duck house in past videos I've talked to
you guys about my plan to build a mobile duck house one that can both house all
of my ducks and keep them safe but then also something that's light enough and
easy enough to move across the pasture so that I can move it through our
integrated permaculture orchard what I actually resolved on doing is taking a
design for a certain type of chicken tractor and making it the duck house and
I'll make a couple of modifications to be able to house the ducks but the idea
is it's a nice good size pen that can house the ducks and protect them and
keep them safe but at the same time it's light enough and easy enough for me to
move around by myself when I say like a chicken tractor it's more of like one of
these you know a little bit like a house the model and design is actually the
John Suscovich stress-free chicken tractor. John Suscovich if you guys
don't know him is this farmer down in Connecticut really smart guy makes a ton
of great content and videos but he sells these chicken tractor plans online and
so I bought a copy and today I'm gonna build the stress-free chicken tractor
but turn it into a duck house so I guess it's time to start building this thing
these joints are really hard to make
good morning Ducks jeez I really need to get these guys on to outdoor pasture I
mean look at that that's pretty covered when I checked on
them I actually put down fresh shavings on top of the other stuff and they've
pummeled that down and pooped all over it again I guess it means I have to bust
my butt today to get this duck house done we've got a bit of a confession to
make never actually bent conduit before but I guess there's a first time for
everything
I mean the roofs a little wonky but I think it'll work I mean it's a duck
house it's not a famous building insert a name it's too hot out here
well I think I'm finished for the day I finished putting the chicken wire on top
of the tractor but and I'm not gonna finish tonight and welcome to get the
depth in that so I don't know I guess I'll be back up I got to work tomorrow
so I'll get up really early like should be better later around 4:45 and I can
start working on it some more I still have a couple hours to go my inability
to construct things is definitely a limiting factor here
so I'm pretty much done with the build of the duck house here I've got the
baseball built out I've got the roof structure completed I put in the chicken
wire pretty much all around in the hardware cloth all around now the major
things that remain are I've got to put a tarp up over here
for the roof finish the door and put the wheels on the back the rope on the front
and some braces to make sure this whole thing doesn't fall apart
I'm feeling very close I think I'm gonna be able to get everything done tonight
and so tomorrow I can move the ducks into the duck house
and there you have it I've completed the duck house I think it's looking pretty
gosh darn good I'm uh excited to get the ducklings in there because it's gotten
so late it's dark and it's actually starting to cool down finally as you can
tell baby not sweating so profusely I'm gonna actually wait until tomorrow to
liberate these guys but uh yeah this should be a lot of fun I think this
structure is gonna really work well so I want to say a lot of thanks to John Suscovich
If you're interested in finding the plans that I got to build this you
can buy them from the link down below in the description but yeah this is this is
gonna be the start of the duck adventure outside