I don’t know how duck genetics work.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    I wonder what, exactly, helping to take care of ducklings entails?

    Do they come in the house, and take over a bedroom with an en suite, watch Bluey and eat all the popcorn?

    Do they just get fed on the porch?

    Something in between?

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      27 days ago

      For chickens and turkeys it’s basically: Keep them warm. Keep them fed. Keep them clean.

      They have brooders, which are basically simple enclosures for this kind of thing.

      That’s usually when there’s no mother though. I have no idea where they would keep her, or if she goes in and out. My guess is they just have a safe spot the duck likes, and they started feeding them.