The Quack Shack

[Plague]

Good evening/morning all! Some new pictures of the 15 ducklings, Bigger ones are 2 weeks on Monday, the smaller is 1 week Monday. There is one smaller khaki Campbell that isn’t as big as the big one, but is same age, kinda strange. She was just slightly bigger than the newest bunch 1 week ago. Either way they are all seeming lively and healthy and mostly friendly, but they sure are making a mess as expected, they love getting their little treats, and now they come running everytime to wait for fresh water so they can make a mess intercepting it before it gets into their bowls lol. Enjoy the cuteness!

 

[rjohns39]

Good morning / evening folks

 

[Miss Lydia]

Good evening/morning all! Some new pictures of the 15 ducklings, Bigger ones are 2 weeks on Monday, the smaller is 1 week Monday. There is one smaller khaki Campbell that isn’t as big as the big one, but is same age, kinda strange. She was just slightly bigger than the newest bunch 1 week ago. Either way they are all seeming lively and healthy and mostly friendly, but they sure are making a mess as expected, they love getting their little treats, and now they come running everytime to wait for fresh water so they can make a mess intercepting it before it gets into their bowls lol. Enjoy the cuteness!

They are adorable. Place a broiler pan under their water container to help catch spilled water. You might want to get rid of the chick feeder it's going to get hard for the ducklings to eat out of it since they have bills compared to beaks.

Good Monday Morning/Evening

 

[Plague]

They are adorable. Place a broiler pan under their water container to help catch spilled water. You might want to get rid of the chick feeder it's going to get hard for the ducklings to eat out of it since they have bills compared to beaks.

Good Monday Morning/Evening

Yeah, the chick feeder we always just use when they are young to keep them from climbing into it, once they get big enough the top is removed, until we outright replace it with a bowl. They don’t seem to make too much a mess with the water with those bowls, it is more they want to rush over if you don’t pull it out to fill and put there heads in the stream of water filling the bowl which makes a mess. The real mess is growing ducklings just seem to constantly poop ha. It is getting closer to move them to the duck house with an area separated for them to use as the brooder. If it hadn’t gotten so chilly would have probably just started them out there this time as it worked real well with the last 5 we added. Just worried about putting them out there cause they will need the heat, and don’t like the idea of the heat lamp hanging in there, would rather use our plate heater, but just uncertainty if it is going to be good enough when it it as cold as it has been getting? Would feel fine using it out there if it would do right.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Can all of them fit under your heat plate. If they are used to using one and all of them can get under it you could try it during the day for a while and see how it goes.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Happy Monday everybody!

The Mallards are back! - All twelve of them! - Twelve?

Yes it seems that the six Mallardnagers are collecting every Mallard duck around here and show them Mallardheaven… - And they were hungry! They gulped down four scoops of cracked corn like it was nothing. Guess i need to ask the Minister of the Treasury for a "slightly" higher feed budget.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Oh my looks like their lean-to may come in handy. lol

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Yeah, the chick feeder we always just use when they are young to keep them from climbing into it, once they get big enough the top is removed, until we outright replace it with a bowl. They don’t seem to make too much a mess with the water with those bowls, it is more they want to rush over if you don’t pull it out to fill and put there heads in the stream of water filling the bowl which makes a mess. The real mess is growing ducklings just seem to constantly poop ha. It is getting closer to move them to the duck house with an area separated for them to use as the brooder. If it hadn’t gotten so chilly would have probably just started them out there this time as it worked real well with the last 5 we added. Just worried about putting them out there cause they will need the heat, and don’t like the idea of the heat lamp hanging in there, would rather use our plate heater, but just uncertainty if it is going to be good enough when it it as cold as it has been getting? Would feel fine using it out there if it would do right.

I have made the greatest experiences with simple, cheap heat-pads like this:

Remove the fabric, place it on the floor, cover with some bedding, connect it to an outlet and set the heat to medium. If it is really cold, place a card-board box with a cut-out door on top of it, like in this video below:

The inner part of the pad is waterproof and easy to clean. These pads will to become hot enough to burn a duckling or start a fire.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Oh my looks like their lean-to may come in handy. lol

I hope so! - Guess where the ducknagers will spend the night? - Of course with their Mallard friends on the pool. There is a lot of ducking going on! Raunchy ducknagers…

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

Ok today is jam day. My neighbor grew some papaya and the store had bananas on sale. So papaya mango jam and banana jam.