HOW TO SET UP A BACK YARD DUCK COOP - Muscovy Ducks & Chickens

HOW TO SET UP A BACK YARD DUCK COOP - Muscovy Ducks & Chickens
I was finally able to get hold of some straw bales - Woohoo!!!!
I usually buy and use about 100 - 200 bales a year, but due to the drought, or the fires or possibly both, or something else? I had only managed to get hold of 5 expensive bales of lucerne hay, in the past 10 months.
Straw is a lot cheaper and is perfect for using in the poultry coupe, to absorb the poop and water.
It stops any bad farm smells, reduces flies and makes the ground safe to walk on, because slipping over in a poopy, muddy duck and chicken coupe is going to hurt, make you all dirty and you could even break the eggs you have stashed in your pockets, oh and with plenty of clean straw in your poultry coupe, the eggs will be clean, because the birds feet will be clean and not mucky.
I am really lucky, as over the years I've been able to get good straw bales and only occasionally have they had nasty weeds in them, like the prickly - scotch thistle.
So I always check them before putting straw on my garden beds. Usually I get the odd wheat seed growing in a place the birds haven't been able to get to.
My son Damon is moving the bales for me, so a shout out to him for letting me film him doing this.
He was not showing off for the camera, he is always like this.
The poopy broken down straw was added directly to a garden bed.
I love a clean coupe and so do the birds.

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Welcome to Moat Cottage Homesteading,
I'm Elissa and here at Moat Cottage, we raise and grow Muscovy Ducks and Chickens, process some of our own free range meat, organic vegetables and fruit.
We grow all of our herbs for both eating and medicinal purposes as well as hunt, fish and forage.
We preserve our produce for the year ahead by canning, dehydrating and freezing and we work on being prepared for emergency situations.

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