ducklings: integrating flock, cold weather, adjusting them to cold weather

[emmad783]

they’re officially outside babies now! I wish it would let me load the videos, their little butts are going a mile a minute and they’re all happy quacking

 

[Miss Lydia]

They are so pretty. How's is mama doing?

 

[emmad783]

I’m a wreck... I miss them, daylight savings is awful it’s dark when I leave for work and dark when I get home so I crawl into their house to sit with them for a while after chores hahah they seem so happy though

 

[Miss Lydia]

I like to go inside and visit with mine too. I know what you mean though it’s rough when you work and leave in the dark and come home in it. Maybe some solar motion lights out around your pen so you can see them and them you? I am doing that now found some good ones in Amazon

 

[chickens really]

I hang Christmas lights so I can see my Birds all winter and actually see where I'm going..

 

[emmad783]

funny you mention the solar lights, I was looking last night on amazon too hahahah I’d also love to get cameras to watch them hahaha I managed to divide the run into 2 parts last night, so the babies are officially out in the run today and I’m so nervous leaving them

 

[emmad783]

I hang Christmas lights so I can see my Birds all winter and actually see where I'm going..

I only have enough outlets for the water heater... there’s a light in their house though

 

[Brahmb]

My ducks finally started going in their doghouse on their own! I can’t get a good picture of them in there, but once I turned off the heat lamp, they went in on their own and stayed in there all night.

 

[Miss Lydia]

 

[emmad783]

working on shoring up their febce, babies and big “kids” have switched sides of the run and I hear screaming - my freakin drake has one of the babies through the chicken wire fence!! it took all my willpower not to choke him right then and there! I let the big kids free range because I needed them out of my sight and grasp... it’s gonna be a long winter