First Time Duckling Mom

Do you think it's okay to raise ducklings indoors for a few weeks?

  • Sure

    Votes: 5 100.0%

  • Definitely Not

    Votes: 0 0.0%
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    5
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Fayed said:
Ah yeah, they sure do like to chew on those pine shavings (makes me super nervous), I think this will be my last time brooding on shavings for ducks, next time they get the bathtub with some shelf liner on the bottom, much easier to clean too I hear :p.

Anyways good luck with your babies enjoy them while they are small, they get big super fast!:) (Brooding ducklings in the house is the best since you can sneek to where they are every free moment you get :p.)
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The fact that they chew on their shavings makes me pretty nervous too. But now that they are a week older they seem like they are spitting the shavings out more consciously.

Is the shelf liner grippy enough for their little feet? I consider doing the same thing in lieu of pine shavings, but I was concerned they may develop splaying of their legs.
 
I haven't looked into it hard core yet, but I think it would be fine, I know some people use towels for them, and as long as you get a nice rough feeling liner I think it would be enough. I'm about to go shopping for most of the day I'll try to post a link to the kind of stuff I'm talking about later today.
 
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This is the kind of shelf liners I was thinking of, they have alittle squish to them and as far as I can tell not slippery. I only held off this time because I wanted to look into it more and see if it was likely to catch their little toes. I don't think it would but I'm not positive.
 

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