At the lake I found a little baby duck without parents. I know it was too young to be on its own. What should I do?
Baby Duck
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Contact the Humane Society or a vet's office. They can help you get in touch with a wildlife rehabilatator.
Is this a public lake with other ducks? Sometimes a female duck with similar sized babies will adopt an orphan. Still, they are perfectly capable of surviving on their own as long as there is a food source (mama duck doesn't feed her babies).
A baby duck is not the right pet for everyone.
The same thing happened to me when I found an abandoned nest.
I took the eggs in an incubated them, 2 hatched. 1 died. But the 2nd one, Sunny, is doing great. Check out the thread "Duck eggs!!!" you will learn to care for one there. Just remember, you need a place for it when it grows up, you must spend money on food. And most of all, the poop.
If you can't handle smelly duck poo, and lots of it. Then please, don't keep a duck. It's just like keeping a dog, except you can't train it.
Contact me if you have any other questions.
The same thing happened to me when I found an abandoned nest.
I took the eggs in an incubated them, 2 hatched. 1 died. But the 2nd one, Sunny, is doing great. Check out the thread "Duck eggs!!!" you will learn to care for one there. Just remember, you need a place for it when it grows up, you must spend money on food. And most of all, the poop.
If you can't handle smelly duck poo, and lots of it. Then please, don't keep a duck. It's just like keeping a dog, except you can't train it.
Contact me if you have any other questions.
I wouldn't stop worrying.
They have absouloutly no protection until another duck adopts it. It will wander around aimlessly.
During that time a hawk can easily snatch it.
Now If you really want to be sure of it's survival, contact someone who can take it in and care for it, if not. Keep it.
Get some expert adive or ask me or Viscous_Fish.
They have absouloutly no protection until another duck adopts it. It will wander around aimlessly.
During that time a hawk can easily snatch it.
Now If you really want to be sure of it's survival, contact someone who can take it in and care for it, if not. Keep it.
Get some expert adive or ask me or Viscous_Fish.
I agree with the post about contacting humane society or a conservation office . . . a duckling will not survive w/o parents, and there's no guarantee other ducks will adopt it
we had this happen to us about 2 years ago . . . we found a duckling in our yard, and because we feed a few local cats, we knew we couldn't leave it. we have a pond in our backyard with several ducks, so we brought the duckling down to them.
the duckling ran over to the ducks, so we figured we were cool . . . the older ducks then proceeded to attack the duckling! not cool . . . so we brought it back inside, contacted Animal Care & Control, and they gave us the # of a woman who rehabilitates ducks
yadda-yadda-yadda, we dropped it off, problem solved . . .
we had this happen to us about 2 years ago . . . we found a duckling in our yard, and because we feed a few local cats, we knew we couldn't leave it. we have a pond in our backyard with several ducks, so we brought the duckling down to them.
the duckling ran over to the ducks, so we figured we were cool . . . the older ducks then proceeded to attack the duckling! not cool . . . so we brought it back inside, contacted Animal Care & Control, and they gave us the # of a woman who rehabilitates ducks
yadda-yadda-yadda, we dropped it off, problem solved . . .
I've kept ducks before but not the wild ones. They certainly are fun to have except I had to move some to the farm as they were getting messier than ever as they mature. I lost a duckling when I was about 5 and kept sobbing about it all night until it returned the next morning quacking happily in my garden. I was relieved to see him safe and unscathed when he ran away.