How Do You Build Wooden Duck Houses?
Whether you have pet ducks or a few wild mallards have found your yard and decided to stay, you can build a duck house to keep them safe from predators and provide a safe nesting spot. Domestic ducks rarely fly, so the time to build their house is before their wild peers fly south for the winter. Cut six 1-by-12 boards, 3 feet long. These will serve as the sides and the back of your wooden duck house. Since ducks have no fighting defenses and domestic ducks rarely fly, they are literally “sitting ducks” for predatory animals to target. Therefore, the safest place for a duck house is in the water. Use one piece of the plastic composite sheeting as the bottom of the duck house and another piece for the top. You may substitute regular waterproof plywood for the top panel to save money. Attach the first row of 1-by-12 wood boards, cut to 3-foot pieces, to the bottom panel with screws. Do this by inserting the screws from the bottom side of the panel into the board when the entire thing is
