I ate the egg. It was a double yolk. Delicious.
BTW... any one have luck with duck diapers?
Hey there, Duck Commander. I ordered my ducky diapers from Nettie some time ago and was happy to find that they they were just shipped out earlier today. She is a great lady and makes the best duck diapers around, so she therefore gets lots and lots of orders since she is the go-to-gal. Her diapers are of the best quality and people say they are better than other well-known brands. When ordering from her one must expect to wait 4-6 weeks. It has been 6 weeks and mine are on their way.
I had been planning on keeping my ducks indoors and ordered diapers because obviously I do not want to wash poopy towels and clean poopy bins forever and ever.
I realize you are simply asking about ducky diapers, which I do not have yet and have not used in the past, but I am going to go ahead and talk about keeping indoor ducks because it is in the same category as your question and may be helpful to some other people here, if not for yourself.
There are many things one must know about keeping indoor ducks, and the main issue is that even with the diapers, the bottom line is simply this:
Keeping indoor ducks is a nightmare. Especially so when they are running around, uncontained, due to the freedom that a diaper may permit, which I get into later in my examples.
1) The POOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!! They cannot wear their diapers all the time. It is unhealthy for them and will cause "feather rot" of the diapered area to eventually set-in. The diapered area will be poopy and will have to be cleaned with unscented baby wipes between changes. They will need to be changed every 2-4 hours, depending on how much they are fed. What happens if you work during the day or have to be gone for more than a few hours at a time? What happens if you have to go to sleep (lol.) They would still need to spend time in a bin, undiapered, so they can poop freely without a diaper. Which means you'll be cleaning it up and your house will smell like poop. And sure, it's easy to throw those towels into the washer. Unless there are feathers stuck into the poop that you have to pick out so they don't clog up your washing machine pump. Or, if you feed the duckies crumble feed that has grit in it, you have to hose it all out so the grit doesn't clog up your washer pump. What about just the idea of changing and washing these towels, to begin with? I have been doing it for 6 weeks and longer, before I decided to order the diapers and while waiting for them to be made. Then I learned that I would STILL be doing this, EVEN AFTER the fact, just less of it. I don't even want to wash another poopy duck towel as long as I live, and when I have children of my own one day you can bet that I will not be cloth-diapering them.
My ducks are going OUTSIDE into a duck-house for nights and for while I am gone and will wear their diapers when they come inside to visit me for intervals during the day.
2) The wonderful plumage.... ALLLLLLLL OVER THE HOUSE. Every time they flap their precious little beakie wings, it is as if the most beautiful, softest and most white snow showers down from heaven and coats my entire living room floor, then travels into the hallway and every other room of the house. I have to vacuum the entire house every single day. They are going through their first molt, which started a couple weeks ago and seems to be never-ending. I have been finding feathers in parts of my house where I didn't know a feather could manage to travel.
3) The sounds of the beakies. For the last couple months it has only been the female who has been the loud and constantly vocal birdie around here. Squawking and bagoking and screeching and squealing (yet, strangely, rarely a quack) every waking moment of her little beakie existence. While we watch movies, while we take naps, while we try to enjoy a nice, peaceful dinner and then... BAGOK!!! Never a silent moment. And lately, now that the drake has his drake vocals and nolonger has a raspy, hollow whisper, that boy has been going right along with his female counterpart and keeping the house as noisy as possible. Ah, the house is alive... with the sound of beakies.
4) Messy little angels. Duckies are MESSY. With their food and water, and anything they find that they might want to dip into their water. You'd have to put them in a bin with their food and water just for meals. They dip all and any of their food into their water and they splash their water into their food. They try to take a bath in their water bowl. They splash their water onto themselves to try to "wash up." They tip their food and water bowls trying to stand onto or step into them. They drop their grain all over the floor surrounding their bowl. Less grain/food ends up in their beaks and down the chute as does onto the floor.
5) Eeeeeeeverything is a toy. They think that any object laying around the house is a toy to be pecked at, pulled or played with somehow. If they can pick it up they will likely want to put it in their water bowl. A dog toy may end up in their water bowl. And papers sitting on a table are subject to be eaten. When ducky wants to eat something he/she usually likes to dip it in the water bowl first. Wires will be pecked at and pulled, your shoes will be played with, plastic bags filled with item will be attempted to be torn open, the curtains/drapes will be pulled at, the dishtowel that hangs on the oven handle will be pulled down to the floor then probably dragged over into the water bowl,... The possibilities are countless when ducky is running around the house loose.
6) Injury. If you have a large dog it would not be too hard for it to unintentionally trample ducky. This happened to my little Bo Khan boy just recently when, unbeknownst to me, Bo Khan jumped out of the bathtub while I was in the kitchen and walked into the hallway. When I walked into the hallway I saw that the dog had discovered the duck before I did and the dog was very excited about the event and ran toward me, trampling poor little Bo Khan. Luckily there were no injuries in this case that have been very apparent to me, but I can see how my little boy came very close to being injured. If situations like this were to happen on a more frequent bases I am certain that one of my ducks would sustain some type of injury eventually. Also, a person, himself, could injure one of them if not taking care to carefully step around corners and look behind themselves before turning and things of the sort.
That is all I can think of right now but I am sure there could be more. Those are the best reasons I can think of for NOT keeping indoor ducks and are the reasons why I am relocating my beakies outside. Again, they will come inside and visit and wear their diapers. But they will be outdoor ducks in the very near future.
