My duckling won’t stop biting everything and me

[seallover]

I need help with why my duckling is biting everything? My mother’s coworker brought three ducklings eggs but unfortunately only one of the three ducklings survived and he had let us take care of it. The duckling is almost two weeks old, it’s in good health and seems to have taken a huge liking to me since it’s following me everywhere I go, but it’s starting to bite everything. I don’t think the duckling is stressed as my duckling seems to be doing well and shows no signs of anything concerning besides its love for biting. I thought at first it might be it’s instinct to forage, but then it started biting a lot more like my piercings, my feet, anything shiny, trying to bite off the my moles on my skin, towels, basically trying to bite anything and it gets extremely eager (like either excited or aggressive?) when it sees anything white like toilet paper. It’s just biting everything, and I’m not entirely sure if it’s just curiosity or something else? I’m worried that it might become violent, and I’m struggling to find ways to correct its behaviour.

 

[ruthhope]

Duckling exploring the world. All normal for a poor little fluffie with no duckling friends

 

[nuthatched]

Can you rehome to someone with ducks?

 

[seallover]

Can you rehome to someone with ducks?

I unfortunately can’t, it’s not my duckling and I’m only looking after it until it grows bigger. It would’ve been even more alone if it had stayed with its real owner. I’m hoping that the owner is going to hatch more ducking eggs

 

[Paz]

It’s trying to remove the inconsistency from the patterns

 

[ruthhope]

It’s trying to remove the inconsistency from the patterns

I hand reared a rescued duckling that was found as a day old running round a parking lot in a rainstorm late in the evening. I couldn't get ducky friends until he was 6 weeks old. Meanwhile he was obsessed with trying to remove the 4 Microsoft squares from the bottom left of my laptop keyboard!

 

[seallover]

Duckling exploring the world. All normal for a poor little fluffie with no duckling friends

I wish the hatch went well so it’d have its friends, I’ve had to give it my stuffed animals to keep it company, and so far it seems to be enjoying it since it keeps snuggling up with the stuffed animals

 

[ruthhope]

My daffy, did OK for 2 or 3 days and then became depressed. Horrible to see him lying on a stuffed duck child's toy and doing nothing. So I had to handle him and keep him close by my all the time. He loved it on my table between me and my laptop when I was working. I had little toys for "ducky life enrichment" and he just dropped them off the table every time I picked them up and put them on the table. He had a mirror but immediately realized that was not another duck in the mirror. But he did at the same time he realized he could see me in the mirror: I would catch his eye when he was looking at me in the mirror. So cute. His brooder was on a chair by my table and there were times he had to go in it -- he could not be running around in front of the screen when I was in Zoom business meetings. He tried to jump out at a very young age [maybe 4 weeks -- he is a muscovy]. And I watched him try and fail, try and fail again, then look at his food bowl look up and run and jump onto the food bowl and then try and jump out of the brooder. He has never forgiven me for putting him in a duck house with 3 other ducks at 8 weeks old. He still 4 years later, thinks he should live in the house and tries at every opportunity to sneak into the house!! He is the only one of my drakes that wants to be cuddled, and indeed he is the only one that bites me -- when I don't stop immediately and give him a cuddle, he bites my toes, ankles shins and whatever park of me he can reach.