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A duckling’s environment should be 90 degrees the first week and then 5 degrees less every week after. At 6-8 weeks when they are well feathered and can stand temperatures down to 50 degrees so long as the temperature doesn’t fluctuate drastically. Buy a thermometer from the farm/feed store, or I have used a probe style BBQ thermometer with great success since you can set an alarm to go off if it gets to hot or cold. The thermometer needs to be level with the ducklings and if the probe is metal you can tape some tissue over it to keep it a more natural temperature. A better way to accurately tell if the brooder is right temp is to watch their behavior. When ducklings are perfectly comfortable they will mill around the light happily, when they are cold they will huddle together under the lamp shuffling uncomfortably in a pile, and when they are too hot they try to escape to the outer edges
