If your moving her to the garage I'd keep her with a heat lamp till she is completely feathered. highs during the day sound good but 50's at night might be too low with out heat. just give her room enough where she can get out from under it if she gets to warm, at night. I'd say a couple more weeks getting use to change from house to garage then out of doors should do it. Have ya'll started her coop and run yet?
I'm sure you'll figure it out, one nice thing is you don't have alot of ducklings needing to be moved so it gives you more time, I do hope you get Scuba a friend eventually she has to be lonely. Maybe getting the word out you might find all kinds of donated stuff with which to build, It happened here I got used windows given to me and some old wood siding that had sat of many years, alot of it went for fire wood but we did get enough to build our 2 geese a house of their own.
and we are trying to get another mallard duckling friend for her but the stores here order them several weeks apart :/
She also wants to see another duckling so she knows if she finds the mirror she will find one. how cute. Also at our closest Lowes behind the store they have wood pallets stacked up I have seen people back there loading them onto their trucks/trunks so you might ask there. and have you looked at the coop thread here on BYC you can find pics of people that have built their coops out of wood pallets.Oh nice! Maybe my Craigslist expert (my husband) can look there for wood and things. Thanks for that suggestion! I forgot to tell yall, but this weekend Scuba learned how to jump out of her box... We would walk into the room and find her on the towel in front of the mirror. That's where she goes after a bath and gets dried off and looks at herself. Well one day she got out again while we were at school/work and she managed to stay on the towel the whole time (no poop on the carpet) so we moved her into the tile bathroom with the towel and mirror and she did the same thing. She knows she's pretty
Yay!!! okay Scuba may not think she needs a buddy at this point so your right supervised visits and giving the little one a chance to get some strength. Scuba may not intentionally hurt the new duckling but just in size difference she could. So just take it slowly and hopefully in a few weeks they will be best buds.. Keep us updated and of course pics.
