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oldhenlikesdogs said:
They do not look like they have any feathers yet, just down, which isn't water proof. When soaked during a rain it can cause hypothermia, which will lead to death. Ducklings without a mom duck that aren't fully feathered shouldn't be out in the rain. Sorry you lost them.
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thx but in the hen house they had a heat lamp and they were under a roof no water got to them
 
It is confusing the way your first post is written it sounds as if they had escaped and were out in the rain.

Amelia ducks said:
) they were running around and having fun,but when I came home from school At 4:00 or was raining so I went inside at 8:40 I went outside to put my ducks that had escaped in the pen
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Plus it had only been raining for about 10 minutes that is why I know that they weren’t cold

And the biggest one died first
 
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What kind of feed were they given. It looks and sounds like frostbite. I know it's hard to understand how just a few mins of rain could cause that but it is possible. I lost two of my own that way when I first started. They could also have suffered shock if out in chilly rain and then put immediately under heat as hot as a lamp. Those lamps put out some major wattage.
 
MatthewsHomestead said:
What kind of feed were they given. It looks and sounds like frostbite. I know it's hard to understand how just a few mins of rain could cause that but it is possible. I lost two of my own that way when I first started. They could also have suffered shock if out in chilly rain and then put immediately under heat as hot as a lamp. Those lamps put out some major wattage.
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Many people have told me this but I do not think that is the case because when I picked up the ducking she was burning up like she was sick and I didn’t put her under the heat lamp immediately for that reason I believe that they somehow got sick
Plus the color didn’t happen until after death
 

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