The Quack Shack

[Canadian Wind]

Buffzillita/o is absolutely adorable. I have a feeling this is going to be the most spoiled duckling in the world!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Buffzillita/o is absolutely adorable. I have a feeling this is going to be the most spoiled duckling in the world!

It will be! - Refuses to sleep in any place but my left hand…

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

So sorry for all of your bad weather in Texas, It is all over our news and I feel so sorry for the people in your state with all of that heat and the tornados on top of it. You are all in my prayers. I hope that the heat leaves and the winds stop.

Thank you. Were used to it. The heat anyway. Over 100 every day this week. My tomatoes are toast.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Good Morning!

 

[Luv Ducks]

Thank you. Were used to it. The heat anyway. Over 100 every day this week. My tomatoes are toast.

You are most welcome and sorry about your plants. How do your birds survive all of that heat. You must have a very good setup for them.

 

[Luv Ducks]

It will be! - Refuses to sleep in any place but my left hand…

Understandable my friend. Your hand is 98.6 and is its new Momma Duck, lol.

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

You are most welcome and sorry about your plants. How do your birds survive all of that heat. You must have a very good setup for them.

Kiddie pools. But they are panting. The geese are hot too.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

No Veggie stuff! - That's ground up cat-food with water. 30% Protein for a duckling that is the skinniest duckling i have ever seen. It seems there was not enough yolk left in that egg to keep that duckling up for a single day. It is really hungry and eating well.
Waiting for the unavoidable stinky protein poop, though…

Edit: And after tomorrow there will be grits in that little tummy, i have to finish weeding my Zucchini plants and the little one will be with me outside, learning how to weed.
And hopefully eating the flies off my legs before they can bite...

Ahh! I see.
I thought you'd know better than that
It looked like celery floating around in there so i had to ask

 

[Supercow]

People... it was raining all day.

So. Many. Slugs.

They are extinct in the area that the ducks regularly patrol - the orchard. But I did not dare yet to let them into the vegetable garden and it is being absolutely overrun.

I picked up so many slugs, the bottom of the plastic basin was thickly covered. I took them to the ducks ... Must have been 30+ slugs per duck. They took an hour and a half to eat them all, with rest and nap breaks inbetween. Lots of water available for sure.

I don't know what to expect tomorrow.

- A super stinky duck coop.
- I open the door and am buried under an avalanche of eggs.
- Ducks opening one eye at me and want to continue resting.
...

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

@shawluvsbirds @Magnolia Ducks @Miss Lydia
I have only experience with ducklings that are at least two days old and not from the first day on - as you have.
Is it normal that ducklings loose weight after they have hatched? On Sunday afternoon its weight was 50grams, today its down to 42 grams, so the 'ling has lost eight grams in weight...
Yesterday it wasn't eating or drinking well, that is why i tried to mix it with water, but even then it was more playing around with that stuff, distributing it evenly over my desk...
It seems today hunger and thirst have been discovered and the never ending cycle of eat, drink, sleep, poop, repeat has started...
i will continue to monitor the weight.
But a new issue came up: Since this morning the duckling refuses to put weight on the left leg. - video is uploading...