is shelf liner too slippery for ducklings?

[lisamarie]

hi all,
i am using shelf liner on top of rice hulls for our new ducklings, but i am wondering if that's too slippery and can cause that foot problem ducklings can get? it seemed fine at first,but now it's all slopped up w/ food and water! i am going to clean it several times per day, but just wanted to be sure.
thanks,
lisa

 

[bock]

I would use wood shavings.

 

[lisamarie]

i just changed the liner for some old burlap we have. i read somewhere about a concern regarding ducklings eating their bedding? i have rice hulls and straw i can use, but right now i am using the rice hulls covered w/ burlap. i wanted to use the liner since it was easier to clean,but i think it may be too slippery.

thanks,
lisa

 

[bock]

Mine never eat bedding, but what you are using sounds like it will work to!

 

[arabianequine]

I have newspaper with paper towel on top of it and when the water gets spilled it tries eating the wet papertowel so I will be changing something the spilling or the paper towel. The cage I have has no bottom so I have a clear plastic under cage then the big wire cage then the newspaper and papertowel inside the cage.

It is a bit too cold still for it to go outside still to young we have terrible winds here will get chilled.

 

[katharinad]

Try those doggie training pads. They are very absorbent and do not post a slipping issue.