Okay, I give in

[Teneniel]

Ducklings are messy, they said.

No problem, I said. I'm an ecologist by education, and we do all cloth and renewable or compostable whatnots. I've raised horses, children (with cloth diapers), puppies, rats, gerbils, and feral kittens with IBD. I was an EMT in a major metropolitan area for the better part of a decade, nothing bothers me anymore. I can handle it without using disposable bedding.

I cave. I'm getting puppy pads today. Even replacing the towels in the brooder right before bed, by morning the last two days, my 6 two-week-old ducklings have made a gag-worthy mess by morning.

my washing machine hissed at me this morning.

I'm doing a full load of towels every single day.

someone send help, i think the poop has become sentient

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Try some goslings next. Waterfowl are definitely a pain to brood.

 

[Jpat]

At two weeks old its very safe and muchly recomended to use horse bed shavings

 

[Teneniel]

At two weeks old its very safe and muchly recomended to use horse bed shavings

I'm getting those too! I thought to get the puppy pads in case they try to eat the shavings. They still try to eat: my rings, my tattoos, the bathtub walls, the towels, my shirt, my childrens' ENTIRE FINGERS...

 

[Jpat]

I'm getting those too! I thought to get the puppy pads in case they try to eat the shavings. They still try to eat: my rings, my tattoos, the bathtub walls, the towels, my shirt, my childrens' ENTIRE FINGERS...

Yep fingers are a delicasy
under a week iam nervous of eating bedding but never had an issue over a week old, But it could happen

 

[Isaac 0]

Wait till they are three weeks old, it will make two weeks seem like nothing.

 

[chickens really]

Use pine shavings..?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Thing is everyone has their own way of doing things some use puppy pads some start right out with shavings. Main thing is keeping a close eye on the littles to make sure the aren’t eating the shaving. Of course they are going to taste they taste everything just like you have noticed OP. I used puppy pads till mine were 3 weeks and it was fine doing that. When my mamas have ducklings their right on the large horse bedding shavings. Couple years ago a member lost ducklings from eating shavings another lost their goslings from eating long strands of grass. So watching these babies close is the important thing.

 

[DuckyDonna]

I'm getting those too! I thought to get the puppy pads in case they try to eat the shavings. They still try to eat: my rings, my tattoos, the bathtub walls, the towels, my shirt, my childrens' ENTIRE FINGERS...

I usually go right to pine shavings after the puppy pads. I buy a pair of pink rubber gloves from the dollar tree and put one on to grab the handful of gross shavings. It's quick and easy to me!

 

[Teneniel]

Thing is everyone has their own way of doing things some use puppy pads some start right out with shavings. Main thing is keeping a close eye on the littles to make sure the aren’t eating the shaving. Of course they are going to taste they taste everything just like you have noticed OP. I used puppy pads till mine were 3 weeks and it was fine doing that. When my mamas have ducklings their right on the large horse bedding shavings. Couple years ago a member lost ducklings from eating shavings another lost their goslings from eating long strands of grass. So watching these babies close is the important thing.

when they went after some stringy towel, one of them was swallowing a loose thread and I had to pull it out, all the while I was like “buddy, do you have no sense of self preservation???”