I’m completely lost !

[emiemi]

Hello !! I seen this wonderful website where all of you were helping each other with problems. I’m just gonna keep it real, yesterday my little sister and my nephew decided to grab a baby duckling from its mama and give it a ‘shower’, I told them to go bring back to its mama before it leaves. They didn’t listen so I took it and brought it to the mama, unfortunately the mama didn’t take it or i don’t know. She just left the duckling there, and it was a bit cold yesterday and the duckling was completely wet. I thought it would prob die out here, so I took it in and placed it next to a heater eventually it got better. So. Now I’m stuck raising a duckling, how do I raise one and why does it keep chirping a whole bunch ??

 

[Evadig]

Hi and !
Where did this duckling come from? Do you or a family member have ducks?

 

[emiemi]

Hi and !
Where did this duckling come from? Do you or a family member have ducks?

thank you ! I mean, in my area it’s very common to see ducks everywhere and walking around. So they are basically wild ducks, none of my family members have ducks. I have one picture right now, I can’t take any pictures at the moment since I’m not home.

 

[Evadig]

thank you ! I mean, in my area it’s very common to see ducks everywhere and walking around. So they are basically wild ducks, none of my family members have ducks. I have one picture right now, I can’t take any pictures at the moment since I’m not home.

I see. What’s your general location? (Like do you live in Florida or California or another country)?

 

[Evadig]

why does it keep chirping a whole bunch ??

It wants its mama.

 

[emiemi]

I see. What’s your general location? (Like do you live in Florida or California or another country)?

I live in Florida !

 

[emiemi]

It wants its mama.

Makes sense I feel so bad

 

[Evadig]

I live in Florida !

Ok, that’s what I was thinking because I know there’s a lot of feral ducks down there.
You’ll need to find someone who can take it or get a couple more ducks yourself, if you’re allowed to have ducks.

 

[Evadig]

But for right now you’re going to need a bit of duckling food. You can get that at Tractor Supply or usually a local hardware store.

Then you’ll need a heat lamp or a brooder.

You can get a heat lamp at Walmart or Petsmart in the reptile section with one of those red heat bulbs.

The safer option would be to get a radiant heater from Tractor Supply, but that’s going to cost $50.

 

[Evadig]

I can post pictures of what to get if you want.

You can also get chick food from Walmart instead of duckling food, but then you will also need to buy some nutritional yeast.