UPDATE - Ducklings 1 Week Old - **PICS**

[Newbie_Hatcher]

1 week old already! They're so darn cute, and playful and sooooo messy..

The pictures aren't great - they're not the most corporative when it comes to keeping them still, lol.

 

[Lesa]

OMG!! They are incredibly cute! They make chicks look ugly! Do you have a pond?

 

[MrsKemmerlin]

Cute, cute, cute!

I'm addicted to all the duckling pictures! Certainly believe they will be my next batch of excitement!

Edited: Can't seem to be able to spell today.

 

[Newbie_Hatcher]

Yaha, I do personally believe they're cuter than chicks

No I don't have a pond

but these ducks are going to friends when they're a bit older... in the mean time they've been having paddles in a paint tray. They'll still be local when they go though

 

[latebloomer]

umm, someone needs to grow into their bill...

 

[3forfree]

Newbie_Hatcher
I'm going into lockdown tomorrow with 24 chickens, and the next batch is going to be ducks. What temp and humidity did you set your bator at. I'm using a coleman cooler and a light bulb, so far I've hatched out pheasants, and hopfully chickens soon. the ducks belong to a friend that can't get his ducks to sit, so I told him I would try to incubate some for him. Thanks

 

[chiefsfan36]

i'll have to keep my wife away from this pic - we got chickens but if she sees these ducklings, she's going to want them too.

 

[madrooster]

keep my wife away lol mine too she wants ducks so bad i said no way we got enough goin on

 

[Newbie_Hatcher]

haha, their legs are becoming mighty 'hench' lol

3forfree - I kept the temperature at 99 (fan-assisted) and the humidity was at 50% up until lockdown, when i bumped it up to 75-80%, I also dropped the temp to 98 which isn't a major difference... but i was advised to do it. what type of duck is it?

 

[3forfree]

The ducks my friend has are mallards. thanks for the numbers