Around the end of December last year my husband was informed that we were to move across country for his job and he needed to be able to start at the new location by mid February. We bought a house, sold our house and moved across country by the beginning of February (it ended up being 1.5 months from start to finish). Since it was during a covid shutdown everything was well shutdown. We were told that ALL of our local government offices were shutdown except for emergency purposes. In the state we lived in at the time the borders were shut down unless it was work, emergency or well moving purposes. Vets were only available for emergencies and even then booked out. I left it at that and bought (6) 26"x18"x16" plastic dog crates/carriers and a pack of puppy pads. I put two ducks in each carrier which ended up being perfect. They had space that they weren't curled up in balls, but we're snug enough that they couldn't flop around on the drive. Since it was the dead of winter there was no way I was leaving the crates exposed to the cold. Thankfully my father-in-law stored his RV with us that needed to be moved to the new house as well and offered for me to put my ducks in their crates in the RV. I started everyone on Rooster Booster's Poultry Cell the week before we left. We traveled straight through only stopping for gas, food and to check on the ducks. I kept them on the poultry cell for another week at the new house. By the end of week two at the new house they were laying eggs again so I would like to think the move was as less stressful as possible on them.
