Show off your house ducks!

[kukupecpec]

Yes, it's in my bedroom. She has been making a nest outside in our flower bed, but has to lay her eggs around 6 AM, so she goes in her nest I made her instead.

Does she not wear a diaper at night? I've been trying to figure out a happy medium there... ChaCha wears her diaper all night, but it gets so full and once in a while if she's eaten too late it will overflow. Having her undiapered makes the whole room reek of duck pooh and it can't be any fun for her to be stuck in her kennel surrounded by pooh. She much prefers to sleep with us but then she has to be diapered.

 

[kukupecpec]

This is my baby, Nani. She likes to dress up as 2chains

She is so cute! I tried to give ChaCha a necklace... it didn't work out lol now she just wears her dog tag on her leash loop on her back, it's more for me ANYway ha

 

[Amykins]

2 CHAINS!! Oh god I almost choked on my coffee XD

Fun story time! I know this isn't necessarily relegated to house ducks, but man, I wish I were entertained as easily as Wobbles is. I placed her on some paper towels while I cleaned out her pen, and she's been happily chirping away playing with them for over an hour now. She's not eating it, she's honest to goodness FOLDING them! She pulls one corner up, steps on it, pats it down with her bill....lifts another corner, steps on it, pats it down with her bill...out of corners? No problem, lift it up, drag it away a few inches and start over!

 

[DuckLover1029]

Omg do you have a vid? I would love to see that. The mental image made me crack up.

 

[Amykins]

Bleh, no....Dear Hubby is visiting friends in Vancouver this weekend and took the camera. ><;;

 

[DuckLover1029]

I just relised that you could todaly get your duck to fold your laundry... I'm so jelle right now.

 

[EyeCandyQuilts]

LOL! I just cracked up reading these! Thats a good idea! We have 5 humans and 1 duck in our house so help with laundry would be awesome!!!!

I posted about avian fash and no neg comments. They dont even let them be submitted to be deleted!! When I tried to leave my feedback, I got a message saying it would be reviewed before publishing which is surely how they avoid anyone posting honest opinions on the duck items. I got a call from the person who made mine and it turned out that the guy who is actually paid and contracted to do them had his elderly mother doing them - mine atleast - since he is out of state!! Turns out she has never owned or cared for a duck so having things as huge as they were didnt seem off to her. Not that you need to have a duck to make diapers but with no experience with ducks at all certainly would make it tough to eyeball it, in my opinion.
Yes the collar was a mess too and the bow was safety pinned to it! Idk if irs just my duck but Deema goes NUTS for anything shiny so having her wear a sharp and shiny pin right where she can reach it was no way gonna happen!
Can you believe it? Sorry to hear anyone else had a bad time with them

Glad to know Deema wasn't dying with the panting, lol!! She only did it the first 48 hours or so after that 1st egg, now shes like the rest of us seasoned moms, lol, done it once....do it 1,000 times! LOL

 

[EyeCandyQuilts]

I tried to post a reply to the question about the ducks inside then outside but it isnt here so I guess it didnt go throug. I agree with sammi though, it would depend on the bird and with 2, they might be ok. I would just be worried theyd never really adjust. I used to work inmedicine before learning sew and starting my quilt shop. I worked different shifts at times and even though I havent worked a night shift in prob 5 years, I STILL can't sleep at night!! At 11pm when I should be tired, I am wired and ready to go!! Lol

 

[AmandaVirus]

Quote: She doesn't wear a diaper at night. I have a medium sized dog crate lined with a fleece liner I made with moving pad sewn underneath the fleece for absorbency. She also has a big fluffy pillow in there every night that she sleeps on, so most of the poops fall onto the fleece liner away from her bed. The room only smells if I've neglected to clean it after a couple days... Then again I think years of having small animals in my bedroom has made my nose not really smell animal smells too much. She's also only like 2 pounds, I'ts definitely not as much as my outside ducks poop, nor as big. I also have two male rats and a rabbit that reside in my bedroom, that I don't smell unless I have waited too long to clean the cages, but my dad acts like it reeks! Nobody else can smell it, though.

Maybe since your ChaCha is bigger her poops are nastier? What type of bedding do you use in her kennel? I can't imagine what her bum looks like after wearing a diaper all night!

 

[Amykins]

Wobbles sleeps on a pillow as well, but I have to wrap it in cling film for easy clean-up. Otherwise I go through 'em like tissue paper and it's starting to get expensive. :/ I don't know what to do about the smell, either. I have a VERY sensitive gag reflex!

Someone mentioned a while ago how she trained her house chickens to poop over the side of the bed...how the heck did she do that?!