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Originally posted by: dotcom173
Ya we thought of it. The lady at the store told us they're a mess. We have a big bucket as his cage and im thinking of making an elevated base made of small chicken wire, so all the poop and mess falls through onto newspaper.
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The feet will get stuck, right?
 
Looks like a baby Pekin. He'll need water [to drink & bathe], food and a warm spot to sleep.

You can use an incandescent desk lamp to warm a spot in his cage, just a corner, don't cook the entire cage.

For food, I suggest cracked corn and poultry pellets while he's still so young. He can't handle uncracked whole corn yet.

He will need a little place to bathe, a plastic shoebox filled with room temp water and steps to climb in & out will do fine for now.

You can line the bottom of his cage with newspaper, change it every few days. He needs to be able to walk around in a clean area.


Look for duck food at your local feed store.
 
Originally posted by: preCRT
Looks like a baby Pekin. He'll need water [to drink & bathe], food and a warm spot to sleep.

You can use an incandescent desk lamp to warm a spot in his cage, just a corner, don't cook the entire cage.

For food, I suggest cracked corn and poultry pellets while he's still so young. He can't handle uncracked whole corn yet.

He will need a little place to bathe, a plastic shoebox filled with room temp water and steps to climb in & out will do fine for now.

You can line the bottom of his cage with newspaper, change it every few days. He needs to be able to walk around in a clean area.


Look for duck food at your local feed store.
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Thanks for the help. We bought some Starter food for him at the place we got him. Right now we're using a fluorescent bulb above his tub, but i may go to the store and get a better one.
 
Someone I knew had a duck and it loved snails (the garden variety). Never had to use snail bait, as this duck would go through all the shrubbery and gobble them up.

As I remember, it was kind of disgusting to actually watch it devour these things like a kid chomping down candy.
 
Originally posted by: Leros
I had a friend who bought a lobster at the grocery store and kept it as a pet.
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I bought a dozen crabs a couple years ago and kept them as pets.

(for like an hour until I boiled and ate them)
 
Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
lol get a kitten. That would be the most awesome pet combo to have.
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SO MUCH WIN. Key + duck = awesome. Add a rabbit in there, and you have the most epic fucking pets ever.
 
Originally posted by: keird
When it lays eggs, bring the ducklings to a women's college. Have the duck and ducklings follow you around the campus and see how many phone numbers you get. Sell the numbers to single guys.

1. Buy duck (done)
2. Make ducklings
3. get womenz digits
4. profit
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:laugh:
 
Originally posted by: clamum
Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
lol get a kitten. That would be the most awesome pet combo to have.
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SO MUCH WIN. Key + duck = awesome. Add a rabbit in there, and you have the most epic fucking pets ever.
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BABY KOALA BEAR!!!
 
A good duck pen would be one of those children's plastic pools. Plus you can fill it with water once a day and let him swim and bathe.

we had ducks when I was younger...i think my dad used a plastic pool..with chicken wire around the edges. Tall enough so he couldn't jump out. Made half water/ half land with a heat lamp. It was a while ago though, so i'm probably forgetting some details.
 
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