**Ducklings**

[baileychic]

I was wondering at what age can you take the food and water away at nightime, maybe 6 hours or so.??????

 

[1lpoock]

I always kept water and food with them in the brooder. However, when they were old enough to be without a heat lamp and sleep in a big pen, they only got water and food outside in the grass and didnt get it in their pen at night.

 

[BuffaloWings]

Ducklings will always need access to food and water. From the adult duck standpoint, if the feeders where emptied out by the time dark rolled around, they wouldn't get feed again until morining. I personally wouldn't ever let ducks go without water. I never put it in the coop, but always had it available in the secure run that they could get to. They would sleep in the run half the time anyway. I felt pretty sure my run was secure enough to not have to worry about them not being shut up tight every night in the coop though.

 

[LittleSquidgenHome]

I don't think I take away food and water at night till they were 10 weeks. By then they are fully feathered, able to acclimate to most any weather and are fully grown by most standards. I can say that mine occasionally, when they are too playful with their water, might go 3 or 4 hours without water at night now and they are 3 weeks and 4 weeks old. It does not seem to effect them, but I woudl not recommend making that a conscious choice till they are "big" ducks.
Good Luck.

 

[Hattiegun]

My duckies are going on 5 wks.. they r still in the house with us... they know when its bedtime and sleep
on a big blanket right next to our bedroom door... they dont get up all nite !!! even if we use the restroom ,
they go right back to sleep. they eat before bed but there food and water is not disturbed all nite.... they
hear my alarm and know that its time to get up !!! They are such goood babies (soo far lol )