How To Keep Duckling Brooder Dry

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How to keep baby ducks brooder dry??????

• Thread starter ronshoney
• Start date May 22, 2008

• #1

I have 10 almost 3 week and 2 almost 2 week one-time ducks and was wondering how to set information technology up to go along it drier...... they are at present in a x-lg dog muzzle and I have to totally empty it ane to two times a solar day because the shavings are soaked from front to back! I effigy in that location has to be an easier fashion. I am in the center of cleaning their cage so I figure I would see if anyone had whatever ideas.

Last edited: May 22, 2008

• #2

Try nipple type waterers like they use for bunnies. Watch them and dribble a piddling for them till they get the idea.

• #3

MandyH

Y'all'll shoot your eye out!

Ha, if you find a dry manner to keep ducklings, you be certain to let me know.

• #four

The but thing that helped me was to set their h2o bowl inside a pan (too with shavings) at ane stop of the brooder. Then nearly of the h2o stayed in the pan. I emptied the pan at least twice a day, and the other side stayed fairly dry for them. The trick was finding a container with a low enough lip that they could become over, but would continue the h2o from spilling out. I ended upwards using dispensable aluminum roasting pans. I could bend one side downwardly a bit and then they could arrive and out easier, and after cleaning it for a week or two, I could throw information technology away and employ a new one if it was besides nasty. But there were still days that the fiddling buggers managed to completely soak the whole brooder. I wouldn't use a nipple waterer considering they need to submerge their nostrils occasionally.
Good luck!

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You can requite them a water dish, get some fencing (like the 2" x 4" mesh) and have it standing upward going around the water dish so they tin can attain their heads in to get a drink, simply information technology should limit the splashing mess.

• #8

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Yes... ducks tin can be messy in captivity but it doesn't have to exist that way if y'all have a niggling space to work with.

The flim-flam to keeping dry with ducks, young or old, is to keep watering, bathing and (as much every bit possible) bedding every bit seperate bug.

For my adults ... bedding is in the coop, their waterer is outside in their one thousand and their bathing puddle is outside in the far corner of the yard out of the sun. The bathing pool gets changed out once or twice per week.

For heart-searching restrict the water effectually the bedding to drinking water. Bathing tin exist given as needed outside of the brooder. With a larger infinite, such as a small shed, seperate brooding and h2o areas work well. Also, feeders that discourage them shovelling with their bills keeps feed mess down.

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That'south a practiced thought Frosty. Next time I may give that a try besides.

I thought mtnchicks employ of the double pan had some good points likewise for brooding in smaller spaces. The two ideas combined might work really well. Hmmmm....

Last edited: May 23, 2008

• #9

What... keep ducks dry out? No matter what you exercise, it will ever exist wet. Yes all the above tips will help some. A lot of the wetness happens when they eat. They will put feed in their bills then walk to the h2o to wash it down. So they distill h2o as they walk dorsum to the feed. Great, so put the food right by the water, right? And then all the feed gets wet likewise. You just have to accept they are niggling messy buggers. But how can you lot not love them when they are and then beautiful.

• #10

Have had my 8 ducklings about two weeks now, and take spent nearly every mean solar day trying to detect a manner to proceed their wading pool brooder dry. I Call up, I may be onto something. I have a combination dog feeder/waterer-1 side is a round hole for a food dish, the other is an open up "pond" type dish that yous fill with an upside down pop bottle. For the nutrient, I use a round, covered, galvanized chick feeder-the ducks can achieve in just fine, but deceit scoop it out. This sits but perfect on top of the "hole" Since I didn't want them to swim in the water basin, I filled a second ii liter canteen with h2o, poked a hole in the bottom, and ready it in the center of the pool. Now they can only access the perimeter of the dish, which is simply well-nigh ane 1/2" broad, and then they cant swim in it. Because well-nigh of their emss seemed to be from their running back and along from food to h2o dish, putting them in the aforementioned container seemes to really cut down on that. The food dish sits up a bit higher than the water, so this really makes a deviation in keeping their nutrient from becoming a swamp. Because the feeder holds simply a small amount, not as much is wasted. It gets them through a day now, and since anythign older would ahve to be thrown away anyway, this way their is hardly any waste product. I also put a pizza pan nether the waterer side to grab any overflow and slobber. Ideally, some sort of rubber mat with a lip designed to fit the whole unit of measurement would exist improve, but I am still looking. Another method i has some success with is putting their h2o in ane fo the circular galvanized, covered chick feeders that concur a jar on top. I used one of the small red plastic water bases instead of the pan that came with it though. Fot perfect, and it kept them from soaking everything quite so much. If I could have made information technology fit on my combination dish, that would have been ideal, just the size wasn't quite right. Hope this helps.

Last edited: May 23, 2008

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