How do you set up your baby ducks inside the house?

[ruthhope]

14 ducklings which is a lot of mess and a lot of cuteness.
I've never had 14 ducklings in my house only 4 at a time and that was messy enough. They will need to be feathered in before moving them outside for good, but on nice days they can go outside for supervised field trips. This was my set up inside 2 dog crates one is xlarge the other large I have also used this for raising chicks. I tie wrap them together and use old window screens for the top. View attachment 3418672

Oohh @Miss Lydia, yours is a luxury apartment for ducklings!!
I too only have 4 ducklings at a time in the house [mainly because of limited room to move them outdoors.] I initially used a kiddie pool in the house but that had to have screening round to stop them jumping out as they got bigger. So I moved to using totes -- size depending on number of little fluffies. I use chicken wire fitted over the top as muscovy ducklings do try and jump out of deep totes

I have used puppy pads but prefer pine shavings -- over textured vinyl shelf lining so that little legs don't slip and splay. The shelf lining rinses clean and is reused

 

[Aunt Angus]

14 ducklings which is a lot of mess and a lot of cuteness.
I've never had 14 ducklings in my house only 4 at a time and that was messy enough. They will need to be feathered in before moving them outside for good, but on nice days they can go outside for supervised field trips. This was my set up inside 2 dog crates one is xlarge the other large I have also used this for raising chicks. I tie wrap them together and use old window screens for the top. View attachment 3418672

Good lord, that's genius.

 

[Aunt Angus]

I use abs pet pens and as the babies grew I added more panels
I put a good tarp down first so nothing including water would leak on the floor
Then I used puppy pads till about 2 weeks. When they start to chew at them I move to shavings
I would section off part of it and put the water abd feed in that area that way I didn’t have wet shavings all over
I would clean the poo and any water mess 3 times a day
I set water bowls in plastic containers and as babies grew I used bigger ones
Cat little boxes at the dollar store work great for catching water spills when they get older
Babies need room to run around and these pet pens give a lot more space then a tote
I bought both types the full ones with no holes for when they are smaller so they can’t get the head through and the other type for when they are older
They had a space to go into where feed and water was with a slight wall between to keep that water mess away from the bedding area
I got mine on Amazon.

Imma do this for the goslings I'll be getting soon. Love the expandability!

 

[Aunt Angus]

The ag program at my last school used large kiddie pools. Not the best space saver, but the pools were then useful for swimming when they got older.

In my teeny house, I'd have to divide them up in order to manage space. When I had 4 duckies inside, I had a big 2' x 4' small animal cage that had a deep tray. I put plastic sheeting on the side where their water was, and placed the waterer on a cake pan with a cooling rack in it. I was still changing that sucker 3x/day. I can't imagine 14.

But duckies are the cutest things ever! I bet you just melt when they sleep in piles the way they do!

 

[New duck mommy 2021]

Imma do this for the goslings I'll be getting soon. Love the expandability!

I love them
I start small and move larger as they grow
Can't wait to see gosling pics

 

[Aunt Angus]

I love them
I start small and move larger as they grow
Can't wait to see gosling pics

April, I hope! Cotton Patch. Two geese and a gander. SO. EXCITED.