Ducklings!

An exciting day: today I picked up the new ducklings from the local post office.

As I always do, I strapped the box of ducklings in the car seat for the ride home:

Box of ducklings in car

Here are the ducklings huddled together in the box:

Ducklings in the box

The list of ducklings we purchased:

List of ducklings

And care and identification info on the back:

Duckling info

I carefully lifted each duckling out of the box, and dipped their bill in the water, to show them how to drink:

Adding duckling

Adding duckling

Adding ducklings

They all figured it out quickly, and were unsurprisingly thirsty, having never had water to drink before (they survive on hatching stores and some gel in the box during transit):

Ducklings drinking

They’re too small to need bricks under the waterer yet (that’ll change!), so I moved it directly to the floor:

Ducklings

I added a feeder, and sprinkled some food on some bricks so they could see it. Here’s the first one to eat:

First duckling eating

The others caught on:

Ducklings

Then figured out that the feeder had lots more available:

Ducklings eating

Ducklings

Ducklings eating

They tilt their heads back when drinking:

Duckling drinking

More eating:

Ducklings

Checking on them a couple of hours later. About 90° F (32° C) under the heat lamp; they are on the edge of that, so seem comfortable:

Ducklings

A couple of hours later after that, more eating and drinking:

Ducklings

Ducklings

Ducklings

Ducklings

Brace yourself for daily duckling pictures for the next few weeks. They grow quickly!

(Plus, of course, the usual Flock Friday post of Bert and the chickens; I’ll keep posts about them separate, at least for now.)

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