Stupid Question

[MadisonOde]

Hey all,
So I'm getting ducklings in a few days, and I saw this video where she carried her ducklings around with her around the house to let them be friendlier. My question is that would they be warm enough if they spent that much time away from the brooder. I know in the wild, ducklings dont stay underneath their mother the whole time.

 

[sylviethecochin]

In my experience, ducklings are less temperature sensitive than chickens are. When I raise them, I only use heat for the first week and I only keep it about eighty. Even very young ducklings tend to be healthy and happy outside at seventy-five and sunny.

I think part of their hardiness has to do with the fact that they're waterfowl. If they couldn't cope with the water sucking the heat out of them, they would be dead very quickly.

 

[Dandy's mom]

So I got my dandy when she was a day old. I let her follow me around the house when I walked around, and when we were sitting she sat on my lap or shoulder. She seemed to get enough heat from me. At night, she slept in a box I made for her with a heating pad on low under one corner of the box and put a bundled towel in the same corner. When she got too warm, she moved to the other corner and vice versa when she was cold. After 2 weeks old, she gets just the box with a fresh dry towel and a fresh sleeping pad nightly for coziness. I made these out of washable dust mop pads. They have the chenille fingers on em and she loves em.

 

[Dandy's mom]

So I got my dandy when she was a day old. I let her follow me around the house when I walked around, and when we were sitting she sat on my lap or shoulder. She seemed to get enough heat from me. At night, she slept in a box I made for her with a heating pad on low under one corner of the box and put a bundled towel in the same corner. When she got too warm, she moved to the other corner and vice versa when she was cold. After 2 weeks old, she gets just the box with a fresh dry towel and a fresh sleeping pad nightly for coziness. I made these out of washable dust mop pads. They have the chenille fingers on em and she loves em.

here is a link if you're interested. kept her warm in a 68 - 70 degree house.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4-p...2d19-4acc-ac36-8c89ae7b174b&priceBeautifyAB=0