Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[Iain Utah]

I do have a question, though........ why buy goslings when you can get hatching eggs?

 

[ChristineR]

I want to get pairs, that's why. And Holderread's is relatively close to me. I was thinking about driving to get them.

 

[ChristineR]

I want to get pairs, that's why. And Holderread's is relatively close to me. I was thinking about driving to get them.

 

[Goin Quackrrs]

Silkie ducks aren't loud at all. Or at least the ones I've been around haven't been.

But I'm voting Team Gosling too!

 

[Iain Utah]

As in m/f pairs? Does Holderread sell goslings in sexed pairs?

 

[Coyote Night]

What kind of water bottles? I thought they had to be able to dip their bills up to their nostrils to clear them or something like that? I use water bottles for my chicks inside, and seramas and love them. If I could use them for ducklings too, and just give them water a few times a day to play and bathe in that would be so much easier. Right now my set up contains the mess mostly to one little area, with their food and water in a little litter box and I just have to dump and fill that litterbox instead of cleaning the whole brooder, and isn't too bad, but the less mess the better.

We give them a bowl of water every day too, but the water bottle keeps water in front of them 24/7 without the play mess of constantly filling the bowls. It gets pretty messy very quickly so the water bottles work great for us. This is just the way we do it and everyone does it differently

. When they go outside they get large bowls but while in the house the water bottles help keep things less messy and stinky.

if I remember right they only need to clean their nostrils once or twiced a day

Yep. we do offer a bowl of water every day too.

Silkie ducks aren't loud at all. Or at least the ones I've been around haven't been.

But I'm voting Team Gosling too!

Ours are loud

 

[Marty1876]

I do have a question, though........ why buy goslings when you can get hatching eggs?

Right! We love hatching dewlaps! Why, it's almost on art form! LOL

Sorry I havn't been on much, for some reason at the end of my antibiotics, I have fallen ill yet again. I don't know what is up with my poor body. I went out and bought a lot of vitamins and suppliments (b complex, potassium, d, iron, a multi, etc) incase I'm short on something. Got to bolster that immunity I guess.

 

[JulieNKC]

We give them a bowl of water every day too, but the water bottle keeps water in front of them 24/7 without the play mess of constantly filling the bowls. It gets pretty messy very quickly so the water bottles work great for us. This is just the way we do it and everyone does it differently

. When they go outside they get large bowls but while in the house the water bottles help keep things less messy and stinky.
Yep. we do offer a bowl of water every day too.
Ours are loud

I think I might just try that, they dump their water and muck it up so much that if nothing else, at least they'll have clean drinking water.

Right! We love hatching dewlaps! Why, it's almost on art form! LOL

Sorry I havn't been on much, for some reason at the end of my antibiotics, I have fallen ill yet again. I don't know what is up with my poor body. I went out and bought a lot of vitamins and suppliments (b complex, potassium, d, iron, a multi, etc) incase I'm short on something. Got to bolster that immunity I guess.

Hope you get to feeling better soon. When I got the flu around the end of Dec it knocked me on my butt for awhile. I ended up getting better in a few days, then sick again new years, then just couldn't seem to get better for weeks. I think there are just some nasty viruses going around this year.

 

[Marty1876]

Julie, old gal. milk jugs with small holes cut for heads at a suitable height it an excellent way to water baby waterfowl in the brooder....and it prevents 70% of the mess. I like to put it in the corner with an old lipped cookie sheet under it, so everything stays nice and dry for about a day and half. Hundreds of little Khakis and pekings later, I know for me its the easiest and cleanest possible way.

 

[Eyeheartquail]

Julie, old gal. milk jugs with small holes cut for heads at a suitable height it an excellent way to water baby waterfowl in the brooder....and it prevents 70% of the mess. I like to put it in the corner with an old lipped cookie sheet under it, so everything stays nice and dry for about a day and half. Hundreds of little Khakis and pekings later, I know for me its the easiest and cleanest possible way.

That is what I did too. Pine pellets helped also.