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Isabella Mcadams
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- Apr 14, 2021
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I feel for you in your situation. I live in south Texas so it’s quite hot down here too. Hopefully it will cool down soonThese are ducklings not hamsters they can't live in the cage like that. It's like you living in a closet it's not doable. I just rescued three ducklings from next door that were living in a guinea pig cage and they were going to die shortly mainly because they were feeding it medicated chick food because that's what cal ranch told him they needed. get them out of that cage immediately and put them in a pan with dirt. if you don't have a pen with dirt that's big enough to support adult ducks you need to find new homes for them. Just because you want ducks doesn't mean you can care for them. I myself am having problems because it's going to be 113 today in Arizona and my ducks feet are burning on the bottom so I had to put them in dog kennels in the shade with medication and antibiotics and water. they're free roaming and they have plenty of shade but it's still $113 so there's really nothing I can do. I've tried penning them up but they're miserable and they have a lot of room to roam as they are right now. They have kiddie pools and I just hosed down a big part of the yard for them. It's only 11:00 a.m. and it's 102°. Had I known this I never would have had chickens, ducks and geese.
As for my ability to raise ducks, I have currently 13 healthy adult ducks in my backyard that I incubated and raised by hand.
My ducklings live in a brooder until they can be blended with the adult ducks, every day spending as much time out in the grass as possible. I’ve never lost a duck due to sickness or bad incubation, only to natural predators. They’re all healthy and laying close to a dozen eggs a day.