My House flooded! I blame the ducks!

[littleduckfl]

You're right there is no need for a dehumidifier with a filter if you have 4 hepa filters. I only wish all our A/C customers realized the importance of hepa filtration when they had indoor pets, not only for the smells but but for the health of their pets.

 

[Red Maple Farms]

Quote:
You mean like this? Here are some of our free range layers enjoying themselves on a log. I couldn't imagine keeping them caged up in a house.

 

[sgt_dane]

Be sure you check everywherre when you do your demo, i work in disaster restoration with floods and fires all the time and microbials can grow even where there was just moisture (condensation) anywhere, not just where the water touched. Youll want to rip it up asap too, within 48 hours the microbials grow and youre in a mess of trouble with it all... Mold isnt a fun one to clean up. Takes hepa vacuums, scrubbing with anti-microbial and fogging after its completely dry. Its a process thats for sure. If you have backing on your carpet pad youll want to check and see if thats wet as well. Its nearly impossible to dry out, some pad is impossible to dry without growth starting.
Glad your ducks had a good time though! lol! i had a mallard that got hit by a car, i picked it up off the side of the road and brought it home, put it in a bathtub of water and he swam around and played a bit. Then i took him down to the lake where we have a bunch of ducks that live year round and let him go (after checking his wings of course, they were fine) it was his breast plate that hurt him. I have seen him a couple times since, flying and doing great!

I did this after talkig to the local fish and game, they said as long as i was planning on releasing him it was ok. Only because i already had him in my house and ready to go back to the lake. lucky little guy, thats for sure!

Well good luck with all the water mess and give the duckies some treats

They can be turds and cause so much havoc from time to time but theyre definitely worth it all the way. After all, where would we be without excitement??

 

[FenDruadin]

Oh, dear! I'm so sorry about your water problem! I thought we had it bad--our toddler packed the upstairs bathroom sink with toilet paper and then left it running. First I knew about it, water was pouring through the downstairs bedroom track lighting, as well as the bathroom door frame (?? kinda weird). It also seeped under the toilet up there and down the pipes and into the bathroom ceiling.

But it was nothing like what you're dealing with--we didn't even collect that much water--it mostly played itself out and was fine. We did have to replace part of the ceiling in the bathroom, and it's still awaiting the finishing touches, plus I'll have to repaint part of the bathroom wall where the ceiling repairs messed with the paint job. But all in all, we got off pretty easy, I guess.

Good luck with your stuff. I'm awfully sorry that happened. It can happen to anyone, though--not just indoor duck owners! lol

 

[yotetrapper]

Quote:
If all of mankind did that, we'd still be hunters and gatherers.

Oh wouldn't that be great? I'd love it if the whole world still had as much sense as me.....

 

[kysilkies]

 

[kysilkies]

Quote:
I can imagine you trying to tell your insurance company that!!!!!

 

[nettie]

Luckily, we don't own the townhouse (we rent from Joe's parents) and due to the other leak in the other bathroom's tub drain, They have offered to have it all fixed... getting the ceiling redone and repainted on the other hand will be a chore. The ceiling is all connected on the bottom floor, thus the whole thing will need to be repainted. The ceiling was the only part of the house I wasn't going to repaint since it looked okay (Our house had some awfully funky colors in it, hence the re-painting).

Looking at the walls today, it doesn't look like the areas where I spent hours upon hours faux painting aren't too messed up. Nothing I can't fix. The ceiling in the kitchen, where I did do some painting/plaster techniques will need to be redone, but at least I didn't finish the job yet.

My spoiled rotten house ducks would take one look at a beautiful lake like that and say, "Pish posh! That is for lowly animals!" Or at least Ming Mei would, lol. The others would run away scared for their lives... lol. Eventually one day I'll have a house out in the boonies with a huge sunroom, with concrete floors and a concrete molded pond built in.... It'll be like the ducks's own "house" connected to our own, with both inside and outside access... though I'm sure it'll will take a lot of getting used to for them. I only raised 4 of my six (two were adopted) but all were raised indoors and have absolutely no survival skills, lol. They wouldn't even make it a half hour in the park by their selves (They think dogs that want to eat them are no threat). These are also the same ducks, who upon being shooed into the backyard on a hot day to play in the kiddie pool, walked outside, felt the 90+ degree weather, then promptly turned right around, marched back in the house and sat under the AC vent. lol.

 

[Red Maple Farms]

Quote:
What your ducks have never experienced is that a natural pond offers everyday what people consider as "treats". The pond is loaded with thousands of minnows, snails, tadpoles, frogs, mosquito larve, flying insects, etc. There is also much delicious aquatic vegetation including duckweed, along with luscious edible vegetation hiding worms and slugs along the banks. On top of that, the ducks can bathe whenever they want, which is more than once a day in a tiny bathtub. Never had a case of bumblefoot that your handful of ducks seem prone to, and some of these layers are going on two to three years of age.

Ducks do not like changes in their environment. However, that does not mean that because you have acclimated them to a life indoors that they wouldn't prefer a more natural environment. Give me your ducks for two weeks, and I'll bet they would never want to return indoors again. Ducks have instincts, and intuitively know how to dabble and forage for food. They also prefer to bathe more than once a day on their own terms, which is important to their physical and emotional health.

Here are some five week old pekin ducks preparing for a swim. Yes, they have no mother hen, and they do quite well on their own. At first when they were four weeks old they didn't want to leave the brooder in the coop because it was "scary" outside. Within three days they wanted to be outside all the time with the other ducks. And no, you do not have to wait until they fully featherd. It's in their blood.

 

[chickboss]

Now there's a mess I don't envy! LOL. Wow!