Is that a bulls-eye?

[DuckyDonna]

OK, this is from about 7 pm last night until this morning just to refresh your mind! The big blank white spot is just because the water catcher was there!

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

Ick! I may throw out my eggs.

 

[DuckyDonna]

Ick! I may throw out my eggs.

Haha, don't do that! Gross huh! I love love love using the puppy pads! makes clean up just take a minute. They are outside all day so at least I don't have to clean up the grass. I keep moving their outside play pen.

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

I got the puppy pads for my eggs. It will be my first time using them. I also got a momma heat thingy. I have always used a brood lamp but last time it fell and caught the bedding on fire and I almost lost my duckies and my barn. No more heat lamps for me.

 

[DuckyDonna]

I got the puppy pads for my eggs. It will be my first time using them. I also got a momma heat thingy. I have always used a brood lamp but last time it fell and caught the bedding on fire and I almost lost my duckies and my barn. No more heat lamps for me.

OMG that is my worst fear! I don't use a heat lamp. Just an old fashioned regular bulb that you can hardly find anymore in a clamp on lamp with a red bowl cover over it. I only hatch once the weather gets warm so I don't have to worry with much heat.

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

I have never been scared of the brooder lamp till now. I use it in cold spells under a sheet with my citrus trees. This is the first time I had a problem. But blackened l
pine shavings and smoke were enough to drive me to a Brinsea momma heat cave. If I was as handy as @WannaBeHillBilly I could have made my own.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

OK, this is from about 7 pm last night until this morning just to refresh your mind! The big blank white spot is just because the water catcher was there!View attachment 1801059

Looks not too bad, i remember my kiddie-pool brooder after the ducklings gulped down their first salad… Green poo everywhere!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I got the puppy pads for my eggs. It will be my first time using them. I also got a momma heat thingy. I have always used a brood lamp but last time it fell and caught the bedding on fire and I almost lost my duckies and my barn. No more heat lamps for me.

OMG that is my worst fear! I don't use a heat lamp. Just an old fashioned regular bulb that you can hardly find anymore in a clamp on lamp with a red bowl cover over it. I only hatch once the weather gets warm so I don't have to worry with much heat.

It is not only the fire danger of the heat lamp, it is also that any Momma Heat Thing is more natural for the little ones. Broody hens usually don't glow or emit bright light at their bellies, do they? My ducklings were calmly sleeping during the dark hours, peeping peacefully in their dreams and had a lot of energy during the day. There is still a difference between my Runners - raised under a heat lamp and this years duck(lings). The Runners completely freak out if it is dark and no light is on in the duck-house. The new ducks just go back to sleep.

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

Now I want a duck with a light in its belly.

 

[DuckyDonna]

It is not only the fire danger of the heat lamp, it is also that any Momma Heat Thing is more natural for the little ones. Broody hens usually don't glow or emit bright light at their bellies, do they? My ducklings were calmly sleeping during the dark hours, peeping peacefully in their dreams and had a lot of energy during the day. There is still a difference between my Runners - raised under a heat lamp and this years duck(lings). The Runners completely freak out if it is dark and no light is on in the duck-house. The new ducks just go back to sleep.

Good point about the momma cave. I need to build one for next year. I've got a year to find the basket like you got. I've got the heating pads.

My husband put electricity in the duck pens and in between the 2 pens. My runners won't go in their pen unless I turn off all the lights! They must mill around outside of it but absolutely will not go inside. Very weird!