Duck Knowledge Needed!!!!!!

[Ox21167]

Hello BYC member! I need some help! Anyone with duck knowledge, please post anything you know about ducklings here! Thank you!

 

[rachelsflock]

Poop. Lots and lots of poop...and water everywhere. Wet bedding, poop, and that special odor under the heat lamp...Feeling traumatized...
They're cute though. My kids like the mallard breeds best-khaki campbell's are their favorite. The kids imprint them out of the incubator and play "bite my finger" through the bars of the cage for about a month before "duck mode" sets in. They also let them fight for who gets to sit in their hand. Kids are 3 and 5. They INSIST on raising all ducklings they imprint in the house.

Specific questions are easier to answer. Also, if you just do a search on this site you'll probably find what you need already posted.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Well. . .here is a good place to start. . read through and then if you have more specific questions we can all go from there
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/raising-and-caring-for-ducklings.750869/#post-10611711

The most important thing I don't think the article mentioned though. . . . they are about the cutest things in the world.

 

[TheGooseLord]

If they quack loudly they want something, they need water to swim in and to drink, dont feed them spinach, if one has no balance put it in a sock under heat for a day, dont put them down unless it is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY