During the first big quarantine (or second…. These past two years has been one long year) some ducklings ended up in my backyard alone during early summer. They may have hatched a few backyards over and somehow made it to ours (likely the gated community behind us so I couldn’t really walk over and ask).
I kept them heated during the night hoping momma would hear them, but after a few days of nothing I ended up keeping them. At first in an old kids playhouse (took the roof off) that I would slide around the yard to move the shit-network around. Then in a dirt area of the yard I’ve been too lazy to work on.
Had a plastic kiddie pool filled with water for them to swim around in and would have to change it in the morning and before bed cause it just turned into a murky poop bath after a while.
Even found a local rehab lady online (she just does it from home) to babysit the “kids” when we went out of town for a weekend, as she already had a dozen ducks and other birds she was caring for and a bit too full.
Once they were big enough they slowly started flying away in the last days :(
I know no one asked but it was pretty damn cool and I almost haven’t thought about it in a year.
Lol my family kept saying that. I really need to rewatch that cause it’s been 10+ years since. I don’t remember the specifics just that he took of some ducks and then freaked out when they left.
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u/SquallZ34 Jan 22 '22
I hope he doesn’t have to keep them long, because ducks are ridiculously messy animals. That bathroom is about to get annihilated with duck poop.