My duckling keeps getting stuck on his back!

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I go into the room and twice now there’s been a duckling on its back freaking out and flailing like a turtle that can’t flip back over.
I have to help them. Is this really abnormal?
 
I go into the room and twice now there’s been a duckling on its back freaking out and flailing like a turtle that can’t flip back over.
I have to help them. Is this really abnormal?

As Ratchnick said, it can happen when there is any depression in the brooder, or when the brooder material is slippery. How old are they?
 
I have them in a whole back room with their heat lamp On one end and then we have linoleum floor with a tarp over it and then the wood shavings. Luckily they can go out soon hopefully as it’s super warm here now and I have a coop for them with a heat mat.
 
I go into the room and twice now there’s been a duckling on its back freaking out and flailing like a turtle that can’t flip back over.
I have to help them. Is this really abnormal?
my ducklings did that all the time eventually they learnt to stand up straiht and not fall all you have to do is help them up when they fall. if they have family the other ducks will try to help
 

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