Help! Duckling off to a bad start and now stuck in egg

[clmschke]

Two things I am trying this year:

1. Good Nites Bed Mats - are 2 1/2' by 3' and are supposed to be used for putting on beds to prevent leak throughs on kids. I had a coupon. So far so good. We have one Pekin duckling that was a difficult hatch (pipped on the bottom instead of the top) and after 3 days of resting, it is now in with the baby geese in the laundry room.

2. A Q-Tip soaked in water then dipped in crumbles works well too. I wanted to make sure the little bugger got hydrated so the ratio was 1 food-tipped swab with about 3 water-soaked swabs. That was the first day after duckie dried off. Now s/he's browsing with the rest of the geese on crumbles on the mat.

A bit wonky on the photo due to the heat lamp, but the duckie is doing well with his/her adopted flock.

 

[clmschke]

Two things I am trying this year:

1. Good Nites Bed Mats - are 2 1/2' by 3' and are supposed to be used for putting on beds to prevent leak throughs on kids. I had a coupon. So far so good. We have one Pekin duckling that was a difficult hatch (pipped on the bottom instead of the top) and after 3 days of resting, it is now in with the baby geese in the laundry room.

OK, just one thing about those stupid bed mats. The adhesive is very very very very very very very sticky. I still have bits of it stuck on the linoleum on the laundry room floor. And they went through that one bed mat in a day. We are back to large beach towels.

Of course, that is the 3 ducklings in with the 6 lady goslings. There's a lot of poop each day. We are changing out their bedding daily. I'm thinking of selling all this manure for my retirement fund. There seems to be enough of it!