Help! Unexpected ducklings

[Shabby Chic-Hens]

I have nine ducklings. It gets super cold at night. They are inside for now, but can’t be forever as my dad won’t allow me to have animals in the house. What should I feed them to help strengthen them?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

What?

Did you hatch these, or did a duck hatch them?

 

[Shabby Chic-Hens]

What?

Did you hatch these, or did a duck hatch them?

A duck hatched them. Under the coop.

 

[tlcmurphy]

I don’t understand what the title has to do with ducks in the house?
Birth Control- Remove all eggs once they are laid.

 

[Shabby Chic-Hens]

I don’t understand what the title has to do with ducks in the house?
Birth Control- Remove all eggs once they are laid.

how do I make them hardy for winter?

 

[ruthhope]

Duck math is the same as chicken math.

Ducklings looked after by their Mama should be OK even in cold weather, but as yours are now separated from Mama, they should not go outside until fully feathered. Unless you have a heat pad in the coop that the ducklings can live and sleep on in cold weather. They would have to be in a separate area from the chickens and ducks to ensure they get to use the heat pad and that they are not picked on by the other birds

 

[Shabby Chic-Hens]

Duck math is the same as chicken math.

Ducklings looked after by their Mama should be OK even in cold weather, but as yours are now separated from Mama, they should not go outside until fully feathered. Unless you have a heat pad in the coop that the ducklings can live and sleep on in cold weather. They would have to be in a separate area from the chickens and ducks to ensure they get to use the heat pad and that they are not picked on by the other birds

The reason I separated them was because she abandoned them, and the other chickens and ducks were attacking them.

 

[Jenbirdee]

feed them chick starter or duckling feed with 1 TBSP of nutritional yeast mixed in for every 1 cup of food. start their brooder temp at 80-85 degrees and go down 5 degrees a week. after 7 or 8 weeks they should be fine outside. you can’t really speed up the hardiness, they have to grow and it takes 2 months

 

[Jenbirdee]

here’s another idea… telldad 2 months is not forever…
but also
you can make a brooder in a garage instead of inside the house. lots of people do that.

 

[Shabby Chic-Hens]

here’s another idea… telldad 2 months is not forever…
but also
you can make a brooder in a garage instead of inside the house. lots of people do that.

We kind of are garage-less. So that wouldn’t work.