How to clean my ducks

[festivalfire]

I have two very pretty white ducks and they are almost perfectly white except for their heads and their stained undersides. I was wondering if there is any way to clean them off. They are stained brown and I've washed them in dawn and they bathe themselves everyday in a pool but it never comes off fully

 

[quackiemama]

how about some pics of these dirty little duckies

 

[Jpat]

you washed ducks in dawn? Full grown ducks? Thats not a great idea because it stripps the oil off their feathers and destroys their water proofing

Adding apple cidar vinager to their bath water is usualy good

 

[festivalfire]

you washed ducks in dawn? Full grown ducks? Thats not a great idea because it stripps the oil off their feathers and destroys their water proofing

Adding apple cidar vinager to their bath water is usualy good

They are still ducklings technically they are about 10-12ish weeks old

 

[festivalfire]

how about some pics of these dirty little duckies

 

[PirateGirl]

I agree, skip the dawn, as they develop their own oils on their feathers it should help prevent them from looking so dirty.

 

[Jpat]

They are bautifull

@Miss Lydia how much ACV would you add to swim water

 

[Miss Lydia]

Actually unless you going to be showing them I wouldn’t worry about it they’ll clean themselves. Don’t use Dawn as mentioned and to keep pool water less nasty you can add a cup of ACV to it but if they are swimming in that pool behind them then nothing needs to be done to it. That’s gorgeous.

 

[DuckyDonna]

Ok, maybe it's just me over thinking but this looks like a human swimming pool with probably treated water with all kinds of chemicals in it? It's beautiful, don't get me wrong but should ducks be in there? I honestly don't know!

 

[chickens really]

Once they molt they will be white again. Also it depends on what they are laying on that's causing the discolouration.