CAN YOU BATHE A DUCKLING????

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brood mother

brood mother

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Ok well that's what I thought, but my husband was saying if you can bathe a chicken you should be able to bathe a duck. Thanks for confirming do me! Just so I know, why shouldn't you us soap?
 
Speceider

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Removes the oils from the feathers so they can not be preened correctly to be water repellant.

Clint
 
dheltzel

dheltzel

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brood mother said:
Ok well that's what I thought, but my husband was saying if you can bathe a chicken you should be able to bathe a duck. Thanks for confirming do me! Just so I know, why shouldn't you us soap?
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Soap is a surfactant and will remove all the oils from their feathers. They will get waterlogged if they go in the water, and if you keep them out it's still un-natural for them.

Put a few inches of water in a plastic storage box and put them in. Watch them in case they need rescuing for some reason. Actually, they are so fun to watch, that part won't be hard.
 
Amiga

Amiga

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Stinky can come from the brooder. Do you have the water management okay?

Also, is it that their feces are really rank? That could indicate a health issue.
 
brood mother

brood mother

Chirping
5 Years
Feb 26, 2014
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Brandon, Ms
I let them go for a swim everyday. In my big bathtub,lol. I clean broader EVERYDAY! I have done anything an everything I know to do for the water. As o now I have a milk jug with an oval opening cut out so they can stick head in to water. I have it an th food container sitting down in an old 9x13 cake pan at on end of broader. But it still gets nasty everyday. Their stool Ian to bathe there is just a lot of it.
 

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