HELP! My duckling is pooping weird!

[coco1691]

im a former wildlife carer and have these native ducklings to raise. they are fine and happy and doing fantastic. 3 weeks old and getting their feathers very rapidly. One started pooping weirdly tonight. I have never seen anything like it and therefore cannot diagnose it. Help please! they look like little grapes! perfectly shaped. Sorry the babies smooshed them before i got a good pic.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Could have been something they ate?

Lets get @casportpony here she is our poop expert in the mean time give us a run down on what they have been eating how they are acting[sounds like normal] and of course breed of ducklings and pics please.

AND

 

[Patrick McKee]

Looks like another poop to me. Of course, being new to ducks and with 6 baby Rouens, I have a little poop production facility going. So far, here is what I have observed and recorded.

1. The "I ate watermelon and drank water poop" - projectile liquid red mush, that other ducklings think is water melon so the cycle continues for the next half hour...

2. The normal poop - not sure what I was going to say here as they are all like picasso's of poop...seriously, my ducklings paint the walls with their poop. I thought only really bad human babies did that...

I don't think ducks are normal.

 

[CayugaJana]

I’ve had my ducks poop look like that before when they had a lot of water. But I’m no means an expert.......

 

[Miss Lydia]

If we have had ducks for even a short length of time we have probably run the gamut on how many different kinds of poop water fowl can do. lol

Sometimes I have to take a second look and think what could they have eaten?

 

[coco1691]

Could have been something they ate?

Lets get @casportpony here she is our poop expert in the mean time give us a run down on what they have been eating how they are acting[sounds like normal] and of course breed of ducklings and pics please.

AND

Its 3am here in australia and i just went to check them. They are still energetic and happy. However i caught one eating the newspaper... i think shes the weird pooper... will send photos in the morning. They are australian wood ducks. I took them to my partner place whom has property and a sheep and two dogs in the backyard which the ducks came on contact with. During the hot day i moved their tub in with his rats and snake shed as it is air conditioned.
Im just worried they picked up something. Not a big fan of rats . Their poop seems to be clearing up hopefully.

 

[casportpony]

How hot is it in your neck of the woods?

 

[coco1691]

How hot is it in your neck of the woods?

Round 34 today but humidity is like 93. It gets up to 46 at my partners place.

 

[casportpony]

Round 34 today but humidity is like 93. It gets up to 46 at my partners place.

That's pretty warm, so maybe they're just drinking lots? I suggest getting a baseline weight on all of them, then re-weigh every 2-3 days.

 

[coco1691]

That's pretty warm, so maybe they're just drinking lots? I suggest getting a baseline weight on all of them, then re-weigh every 2-3 days.

Okay will do tomorrow. Thankyou for the help!