Found baby ducklings without mother! Help!

[Miss Lydia]

They're doing great. Still super active and drinking, eating and pooping fine.


My favorite one already. I think he's the smallest.

Never seen a wood duck with colors like that can you explain that Clint? I'm not asking to be a smarty pants just curious as to where this color would come from in a Woody.

 

[chickarooo]

Yeah

 

[Speceider]

That's a much younger duckling than most in the original pic....but silver wood ducks, a mutation look like that. Still not the yellow of a Muscovy.

Clint

 

[Miss Lydia]

That's a much younger duckling than most in the original pic....but silver wood ducks, a mutation look like that. Still not the yellow of a Muscovy.

Clint

Sure is a pretty color.

 

[chickarooo]

Yea

 

[HollyDuckFarmer]

That is amazing, def going to grow up to a beautiful duck. So BirdieLove's pic above possesses a Dusky Gene? So Clint, if they're Woodys, then what's the best thing to do at this point? Will the mom have broken her broody-ness? I do think Clint is on to something about the molt and and how far the Broodies do stray from the d'lings... I have 2 sets, smaller than these here, and their moms are about done.

 

[BirdieLove]

Update on the ducklings-

They're doing excellent! They aren't that scared of me anymore and I know they're eating well because they'll also scarf the food up from my hand. The largest one loves me. He'll let me hold him and when I put him on the ground he just stands beside me. I filled a small Tupperware bowl with water and let each of them a chance to take a little bath but the only one that would is the oldest, he loved it lol I would keep him if I could own ducks where I live.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Update on the ducklings-

They're doing excellent! They aren't that scared of me anymore and I know they're eating well because they'll also scarf the food up from my hand. The largest one loves me. He'll let me hold him and when I put him on the ground he just stands beside me. I filled a small Tupperware bowl with water and let each of them a chance to take a little bath but the only one that would is the oldest, he loved it lol I would keep him if I could own ducks where I live.

Can you post pics again? I'd love to see them as they mature and change.

 

[BirdieLove]

Yeah I'll post pics often

Here's one I took a little bit ago of the biggest one and another one eating from my hand.
I'll try to get some of the biggest one( I think I need to name him now lol) getting a bath. Earlier while he was getting one he stood as high as he could, flapped his tiny wings and was peeping lol

 

[lesander]

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Hi I'm new here! Alright so I just became a mom to TEN ducklings. I found them at a water company and I've seen them out multiples times today with no mom in sight at all so something must have happened to her. I had a duck when I was younger that I raised up but I don't remember much about it. I'll show you the cage they're in tomorrow but I just need to know some basics on what to do, can I tell their age at all, what age is safe to release them, and how big of a cage do they need to be in? Right now they aren't in a very big cage but I can't spend alot of money cause I just wanted to save them and raise them till they can be let go in a pond near me that has alot of ducks that live in it. Sorry for such a long post! Thanks for any info!

Oh and also what is the hottest temp they can be kept in? I live in FL so during the day it gets in the 90's.Is that too hot?

This is all of them.

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Hey there, I've only spent time with domestic muscovies, runners and wild mallards, all we have here lol. I've spent quite a bit of time with muscovy ducklings now and they don't really look like scovies to me, most of them seem to have the same patterm on there wings, and they all seem to have very dark narrow beaks. Here are mine at 5 days, there are 100's of different scovies out there but just seem quite different from the ones I've seen. I'd show the people at the location some pics of adult ducks in your area and see if they recognize the breed as you said they saw the mom the first couple days. And there is no way if a muscovy mother was still around she would let out of her sight or let strangers anywhere near them in m'y experiance