2019 Spring Ducklings are here!

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Super Adorable!! Nothing like the fuzziness of ducklings. Someday Ancona ducks are in our future. Very happy for you!

Definitely Anconas are next! My wife likes them too. She wants to have light colored ducks, she doesn't like Cayugas or Black Runners at all.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Aww can we see?

Too slow, they're back out again, raiding the feeder…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Too slow, they're back out again, raiding the feeder…

And they're back in! Things change here faster than the weather on Mount Washington.
Here you go:

 

[Miss Lydia]

Okay tell us how you made your heating cave? Precious babies

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Okay tell us how you made your heating cave? Precious babies

Very easy: I bought this metal basket at the local $-store:

Ordered this heating pad from Amazon:

Then i closed off the back of the basket with duct-tape, one layer from the inside, another layer from the outside, so that no duckling can get stuck on the glue.

Then wrapped the heat pad lengthwise over the basket and fixed it with additional duct-tape. I consider myself lucky to have found such a nice basket with a cave-entrance.
More pictures of the heat-cave in the duckling album, page 3: https://www.backyardchickens.com/gallery/albums/2019-spring-ducklings.7428740/?page=3

 

[DuckyDonna]

Very easy: I bought this metal basket at the local $-store:

Ordered this heating pad from Amazon:

Then i closed off the back of the basket with duct-tape, one layer from the inside, another layer from the outside, so that no duckling can get stuck on the glue.

Then wrapped the heat pad lengthwise over the basket and fixed it with additional duct-tape. I consider myself lucky to have found such a nice basket with a cave-entrance.
More pictures of the heat-cave in the duckling album, page 3: https://www.backyardchickens.com/gallery/albums/2019-spring-ducklings.7428740/?page=3

So exactly which "$$" store did you find this and the water basin and basket? We have Family Dollar (which had the green basket but it was way too small), Dollar Tree, and Dollar General all within reasonable distance from us.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

And here is a not so cute video that shows the injured duckling hopping and rolling around in the brooder:

Could that be a spraddle leg?

 

[bluemerle]

First Video on YouTube:

Aww, they're so cute! I hope the little hop-along duckling can recover quickly.

If you don't mind a dumb question, what is the lemon-looking thing?

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

So exactly which "$$" store did you find this and the water basin and basket? We have Family Dollar (which had the green basket but it was way too small), Dollar Tree, and Dollar General all within reasonable distance from us.

I bought all my stuff at this Dollar Tree, but the metal-basket was the last one they had…

I found something similar on eBay, but of course its not for 1$
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Whitmor-Wi...h=item1cc20504e0:g:V0QAAOSwZltb~Vaq:rk:1:pf:0

The heat pad is this one from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FGDDI0/?tag=backy-20

Standard duct-tape, gray, very sticky…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Aww, they're so cute! I hope the little hop-along duckling can recover quickly.

If you don't mind a dumb question, what is the lemon-looking thing?

That is a treats-ball, you fill it with treats like meal-worms, the ducks can play with it and sometimes a treat falls out.
My grown up ducks are scared to death of this, if i put that in their house they refuse to go in, i placed it in the brooder so that the new ducks get used to it from the beginning. And i'm looking forward to some duckling soccer…