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It was heartbreaking to see her alone. She was upset for 2 days but now she's her usual self again. Their nails are very sharp too.. Ouch! It's a pretty group indeed, I hope they continue to stick together when they're older. So I just got back from the vet and he thinks it's callus because...

My babies have grown up so much. They're almost fully feathered and spend most of their time on their own in the ditch. That's where they do their complicated bathing rituals. I've tried to teach them how to use the ramp to get on our property but they don't get it yet. So then they hang out on...

Donsje visited yesterday with 3 babies There was one baby that looked like Donsje. Today she was gone

Wow that's really wrong. Was he at least a good mother? I knew this call duck and she grew up with 2 drakes. They did fine together, sadly they all got hit by a car and died. But I don't think there's many trios like that.

Some are changing voices, I really hope to get more girls, there's too many misbehaving boys already :<

I've been throwing their pellets on the street and more often per day so they don't gobble as much and they don't have weird walks anymore. I noticed that 5 have small feathers with a greenish shine (like adult males) on their head. Does this mean they're boys?

That's so sad. It seems ducks don't realise how dangerous the road is sometimes. I can't imagine losing any of my babies, duck life can be so hard and cruel

Donsje was in the ditch and she has 5 babies (there were 8 on day 1) now. The babies are really small and I think they grow very slowly. I wish I could tell her to come and stay in our garden until the babies are bigger

They move around a lot but they will eat so much they can't walk normally.

No, I hope she's in the tall grass and smaller ditches in the park. There are so many dangers for ducklings and it's heartbraking to see a duck mom who's lost all her babies

Yes the scratch is smaller today and no more alone outside in a cage for baby Donsje Very true but maybe I overfed them a bit. They look really fat and lumpish

Thank you! The white flowers must be their favourite! I cleaned the poop that was in front of the door yesterday, but there was new poop an hour later :C Now that they eat stuff from the garden their poop gets nastier too. Lol they must be launching it. That's easier than walking away from the...

Thank you! But I think they chose to sleep outside last night.. Maybe the cardboard box scared them, or the newspaper walls :o

That's big Donsje with her babies! She was in the ditch and they must have hatched today. I hope some will survive, but they don't have a big chance sadly

Some of them look like adult ducks with duckling heads. I don't really smell the poop because I've got a bad cold. HA really helpful when cleaning out the cabinet On vacation they already smelled, they were just 1,5 week then! At night they slept inside the caravan (with my parents) in a cage...

They were 3 weeks when they first went outside (lastFriday). I think they're really big for their age or something. That's baby Donsje's bill. The photo is from today, the swellings are gone and it's a small scratch

It's not really warm here, around 5 -10 degrees celcius. I put a blanket on the glass panel that is the "roof" of the cabinet and another blanket around the cabinet. The cabinet is on a pallet so there shouldn't be cold coming in from the ground. they can get in from the bottom so the wind...

Do they really get cold at night? I haven't heard them squeak at night, while I can hear them in the morning (when it's light and they want to get out and eat).

No I don't have a heat lamp, and I put the heating plate with Donsje's baby (she's still inside). I don't think it was really cold and they all made it through the night. They're all getting their feathers, when they're sleeping they cuddle up with each other My parents tell me that they're...

My parents weren't happy with the mess and smell they make so they want them outside I don't even have an outside duck house, and my dad wanted them to have a cardboard box as sleeping place! Instead we put my stereo cabinet (I got it from the trash) on a pallet so they can enter from the bottom...