Best Place To Get Duck Diapers?

[kstrickland]

If you are interested, you can check out www.indoorducks.com for all the colors we have available (We just added a bunch!)

Oh and- thanks guys for mentioning me. Your ducks are so precious!

Goat_walker, I'm pming you as well

I bought a harness for my Pekin and found that after use, there were sores the the beginning of her wings so I guess it's too small and that she needs an XL. Unfortunately, you do not have the pink or the purple available. IS there anyway that you can let me know once one of those colors becomes available?

 

[kstrickland]

NETTIE!!!! I have a few of hers and LOVE THEM! I need to get more but am having to wait until I have the pocket money for it.

is the lime green the bikini style?

 

[Eggrolls Mom]

Hi! I have a duck I need a diaper for but I'm a bit confused on sizing as I think he looks way bigger than a bantam but don't think he's a "large duck" size either. I'll attach a picture so maybe that will help? Thanks for any advice. I have two ducks and will be ordering two diapers asap so they can be inside especially during the cold Colorado days.

If you are interested, you can check out www.indoorducks.com for all the colors we have available (We just added a bunch!)

Oh and- thanks guys for mentioning me. Your ducks are so precious!

Goat_walker, I'm pming you as well

 

[QuakieChan]

Hi! I just ordered my baby duckling diapers as well but its taking a little long to come in and only fits until 1 month old and my duckling is nearly 3 weeks. Does Nettie have diapers for ducklings above 1 month old. I know they have for full grown ducks but not sure if they have diapers for the transitioning ducklings who are to big for the baby ones but too small for the adult ones. Also, if it helps, my duck is a rouen.

 

[Miss Lydia]

http://www.sewsammi.com/

http://www.partyfowlpets.com/products/

http://crazykfarm.mybigcommerce.com/ducks-and-geese/

 

[QuakieChan]

Thank you Miss Lydia! I love these websites!

 

[Rawrcat]

I tried ordering one through "Crazy K Farms", which was what I got with Nettie's link.
What is the general turn around time for a product; because it's been a month now and I havnt heard from anyone, no product, and when I call I always seem to reach the "answering service".

 

[Miss Lydia]

Crazy K a few years ago got my chicks shoes here fast like 2 weeks. Maybe try sending a text or email. sorry it's taking so long.

 

[ObamaPhone]

http://www.sewsammi.com/

http://www.partyfowlpets.com/products/

http://crazykfarm.mybigcommerce.com/ducks-and-geese/

First, a little background on my pet:

I have a 9 week old mallard, and it's about 2.5-3 pounds, not sure of gender until adult plumage grows in.

I bought my duck at a farm I found on Craigslist, and it was about 7-10 days old when I picked it up.

I chose a female name for now, but will change it to a male variant if it turns out to be a boy.

My duck is mostly an indoor duck that I let sleep under my bed at night and go outside when it wants to.

I made the difficult choices to keep my duck diapered 24/7 except for its twice daily baths and trips to swim in the local lake, as well as raising only one duck.

Both of these decisions are highly advised against, but if you need to keep a duck by itself, you must make some type of companionship (human or another house pet's) available 24 hours a day, and if it wears diapers on a continual basis, you need to give it multiple baths, such as in the morning when it wakes up and right before it goes to sleep at night.

I fill up my bathtub for my duck twice a day, right when it wakes up, and right before I put it to bed.

I also don't use wet wipes to clean its butt between diaper changes because I don't want to irritate the delicate skin surrounding the cloaca, so I wash its bottom between baths each time in my bathroom sink and dry it with an old hair blow dryer.

Now, for my 2 cents on diapers:

I have owned three diapers so far, two from Sew Sammi and one from Nettie.

When my duck was about 3-4 weeks old, it started to jump out of the 50 gallon plastic bin I used for its housing.

I knew it was time to invest in a diaper, so I bought a tiger-print fleece duckling diaper with a single plastic snap buckle from Sew Sammi for $15 in a size Large.

I was worried at first that I had ordered the wrong size, since it seemed too wide on the bottom (between my duck's feet) and I had to cinch it to its maximum tightness.

However, unlike adult diapers, this baby duck diaper is meant for the bird to "grow into it."

A couple weeks later the diaper no longer fitted my duck, and it started to shriek every time I put the diaper back on after changing the liner because there was no more room for its recently sprouted tail feathers!

At this point, the best I could do was cut a hole in the back of the diaper for the tail feathers to grow through, but after a week or so, the diaper no longer caught my duck's droppings which ended up on the carpeting.

Luckily, my Sew Sammi custom adult diaper that I paid $40 for arrived, and I was able to put it on my duck right away.

The Sew Sammi diaper is an open tail design with a velcro snap to keep it wrapped snug around the duck's cloaca.

The inside of the diaper is lined with a waterproof sheet of vinyl, which makes it easy to clean off any urine and feces that get stuck to it.

I use a woman's menstrual pad that I cut in half as the liner for this diaper, and it does a decent job absorbing all the waste that my duck produces.

The cons to Sew Sammi's adult diaper are that feces gets stuck to stretchy elastic edge of the diaper underneath the tail, and it needs to be washed continuously (wet wipes/by hand/machine wash cold + air dry) to minimize smells and stains.

Also, because of the diaper's minimal design, my duck can reach into the diaper with its bill and pull out pieces of poop and liner which makes a big mess.

A couple weeks after receiving Sew Sammi's adult diaper, the closed-tail adult diaper I ordered from Nettie for $52.99 arrived too.

Nettie's closed-tail diaper is a lot thicker than Sew Sammi's open-tail design, and it also came with buckles to adjust the size of the straps as well as snap buttons instead of velcro to keep it wrapped around my duck's cloaca.

While the inside of the diaper has a waterproof layer much like Sew Sammi's design, Nettie's diaper still has fabric on top of the waterproof layer inside the diaper's pouch which is a magnet for urine and feces.

Nettie's diaper seems to hold waste better and my duck has not picked any of it out with its bill, but the diaper pouch sits too low and drags on the ground, attracting more moister and dirt, even after I tightened the strap buckles.

Nettie's diaper is also heavier which makes it more cumbersome for my duck, and because it hangs off my duck's tail in a shape that resembles the end of a canoe, it also looks less cute too.

I use a size 2 baby diaper that I cut in half instead of a woman's menstrual pad for Nettie's closed-tail diaper as a liner.

Conclusion:

I rotate both my open-tail Sew Sammi diaper and closed-tail Nettie diaper as needed, but so far I prefer Sew Sammi's diaper for its simple design, quality craftsmanship, and overall attractiveness.

Nettie's diaper holds waste better and has adjustable strap buckles, but it's thicker, stiffer, heavier, and the stitching appears to be of less quality than Sew Sammi's design.

 

[Brookec86]

NETTIE!!!! I have a few of hers and LOVE THEM! I need to get more but am having to wait until I have the pocket money for it.

That is sooo cute!! Lol