Duckling help needed

[FluffTheDuck]

So I have 4 ducklings right now, two coming estimated the 14th. Two are Cayugas, one black Swedish and one blue Swedish, and the others in the incubators are Pekins. The problem is I don't know when to take them outside and they are STINKY! But I love the little stinkballs and I want to know they will not die if I take them out.. Where I live is crazy weather right now (in Alabama?!) Sometimes it can be in the 50s and the other day in the 80s... is that too cold/hot? And I am fixing to make a see but no touch brooder in the duck house will that work? How big does it need to be? I have 2, 1-year-old Pekin ducks in the duck house and will they peck at the screen? I want to have a brooder just like the chickens- it has the door on top and the see screen is on the side- it hangs from the wall and it has the heat lamp in there with food and water and the lid has a security lock. Will this work? My Blue Swedish is about 2 weeks old and the rest are 1 week. Will they try to kill the newborns? The eggs hatch April 14th (as said above). Please mention anything else I need to add.

 

[Roo5]

Honestly you could put them out with a heat lamp rn,or wait till about six weeks and put them outside officially, no lamp needed at that point.Ducks are ACTAULLY hardy animals and do well in cold weather, they even swim in cold weather.

 

[FluffTheDuck]

Honestly you could put them out with a heat lamp rn,or wait till about six weeks and put them outside officially, no lamp needed at that point.Ducks are ACTAULLY hardy animals and do well in cold weather, they even swim in cold weather.

Okay.. The brooder will take about 3 days to make(MAYBE).

 

[FluffTheDuck]

Anybody else? Opinions? Will the 1-week olds do fine? I know smokey (2 week old) will probably do fine..

 

[Miss Lydia]

I think if you make your brooder for outside using hardware cloth the duckling will be fine in the coop with some supplemental heat I think you can get heating pads that are for poultry and they would even be safer. Than a heat lamp. As long as they aren’t in a draft But 4 ducks are going to need some space until they are up to 6 weeks old they will need 2.75sq ft of floor space each once they are out of the brooder they need about10 sq ft per bird of floor space. Do you have Storeys guide to raising ducks? They have excellent info.

 

[FluffTheDuck]

Is it a book?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Yes it is.

 

[FluffTheDuck]

I’ll get it on amazon

 

[FluffTheDuck]

Bought it

 

[FluffTheDuck]

It’ll arrive April 19th-22