Recent content by Ducklingjibjib

Thank you, I really did try. I just feel that I should have paid more attention. Maybe this wouldn’t have happened if I had sat with it all night. I truly thought it was okay until I saw it.

Thank you for the kind words. I just wish I could have saved it. Maybe if I had sat with it all night I would have noticed.

I held it for an hour after it stopped moving. There was no life left in it. Its eyes just stayed open after. When I set it down, it just fell to its side, stiff as a toy duckling, like rigor mortis had already set in. I just feel terrible about how it’s life ended. I tried warming it up with my...

That’s my working theory. Is it normal for them to be all splayed out like that when dying due to being too cold? That’s the part that doesn’t add up to me. From what I’ve seen online the pics of dead ducklings due to it being too cold show them all scrunched up.

Hi so basically I found a lone duckling on Tuesday around 8 PM in my in ground pool. It was just swimming back and forth. Whenever I would go out to grab it, it would jump out and run around the yard away from me. It was weird since we live in the suburbs and none of our neighbors have ducks...