2019 Spring Ducklings are here!

[Miss Lydia]

I love using pee pads with ducklings I usually switch them over to shaving 3rd week.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

@SailorNoMore - Hope you had a beautiful 4th of July! - How are the Ancona's doing?

 

[SailorNoMore]

@WannaBeHillBilly They are big and beautiful. I gave up trying to weigh them on Fridays because they are just too much to handle. We had them with us yesterday for five hours as we enjoyed our 4th celebration in the backyard. I am trying to train them to step on a cinderblock to get into and out of the kiddie pool but they prefer the hard way.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

@WannaBeHillBilly They are big and beautiful. I gave up trying to weigh them on Fridays because they are just too much to handle. We had them with us yesterday for five hours as we enjoyed our 4th celebration in the backyard. I am trying to train them to step on a cinderblock to get into and out of the kiddie pool but they prefer the hard way.

Better use a piece of wood with some small strips nailed or glued across as grip helpers and provide them a ramp. I have heart of some cases where young ducks have hurt themselves when desperately trying to climb into their pools over a rim that is too high for them. Their hip joints are not as sturdy as they like them to be. And of course, best solution is to dig a hole and sink the pool into the ground so they just have to hop in… (ouch, my back!)

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

Here is little Merde and his siblings

 

[Miss Lydia]

How adorable

 

[Texag87]

@Magnolia Ducks I had to refrigerate the eggs I was holding back . I can start again tomorrow holding them back. That way we can come see the Muttlings II and bring both hatching eggs and eating eggs .Hershey sure wants to go broody.

 

[SailorNoMore]

Here are what we think are our four lady Anconas. Everybody squawks when being picked up to be transported elsewhere. They are 5 weeks old now.

 

[SailorNoMore]

@WannaBeHillBilly I can build the ramp to get in and attach it with zip ties. That will get them in, now how do I get them to get out?

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Attaching the ramp with zip-ties is an excellent idea! (Why have i not thought about that…) and if you have a flat rock that you can place in the pool, that will be enough for them to get out, out is easier than in. Make the ramp at least a foot wide, ducks are not very good walking on ramps mine had several accidents when i was using the ramp, one duck wants in, another out and both ended up in the grass.
My duck's pool is on the hill-site, so i did not had to dig too much to have one side flat with the ground. But i need a ramp inside the pool otherwise my poor Limpy is not able to get out. And Donald was too dumb to remember where the "climb-out" rock was located when the water was dirty. - Drakes!
Congrat's on four girls! They look really cheeky, i bet they can get every meal-worm they want from you guys.