I just wanted to post a reminder to all with young kids and young ducks, chickens etc... Watch the heat lamp. My girls were playing with the duckling before dance today and then as usual we went rushing out of the house because we were running late, well the top didn't get put on correctly. When we got home I thought, hmm... our neighbor must be burning something, when I opened the front door I found it was our house! The front room was full of smoke, the heat lamp was sitting right on the shavings, melted hole through the container, on to the rug, scorching the hardwood floors beneath. Fortunately no flames but if I'd been just a few more minutes, I hate to think of what would have happened. I know accidents happen and I'm kicking myself that I didn't check it. Amazingly the two ducklings and two chicks are fine!! I was so thankful for that and that my house isn't a pile of ashes it could have ended far more terribly. These feathered friends are an absolute joy to raise, lets keep it joyous.
