Baby Duckling Showing Personality

[@catklyst]

That is pretty adorable.

[@mattheweskender7781]

Adorable as a kitten 🐈

[@coglapse]

I hope the duck is alive and happy...

[@mattheweskender7781]

Cute little fellow 😻❤

[@Fran_Tluanga]

Ive hatched a single duck egg in my homemade incubator, i raised him till adult and was always my best friend..now he joined other flocks.. I missed him sometimes

[@emmayoung736]

Such a sweet baby

[@viktorheinrichs1627]

They are so pure and bright. Only positiv.

[@graceallen7422]

She is SO precious!!

[@mehtappak3568]

Hi..I just wanna kiss this duckling.😘🤗

[@caitykitola]

You're so lucky. I got to be a duckling mama for about 10 minutes. The maintenance staff at the preschool I work at found a duckling and brought it to me, because I was working in the science lab at the time. The poor thing was having neurological problems and seizures. Passed away right in my hand. :( He was only a little bigger than your Precious Trouble here.

[@RuminantCounter]

If this ever happens to you again, try finding the mother down at the lake and see if she'll take the baby. A wild duck might be hard to approach, but she might hear the baby peeping and be willing to come get the baby. On our farm, we had a fair number of late hatching ducks and chickens and the mother would always accept the baby into her brood if we gave it to her within a day or so of the others hatching. Our geese went a step further. The lazy female would never sit on her eggs, but if we incubated the goose eggs, the gander and female would take the babies and raise them. It was pretty funny considering the female never even bothered making a nest for her eggs, she's just drop them wherever she happened to be sitting when the urge hit her. But she acted like a maniac when a gosling mysteriously showed up a month later. She'd come barreling in, wings flapping and gather up the gosling, while the gander would run at me, hissing and lowering his head, like he thought I'd kidnapped his gosling.

[@thelegendofcoo00ol]

If she gave her duck back to the mother she the mother will kill her duckling because once a human touches the young the mother will have to kill it

[@RuminantCounter]

The "mother will kill a baby if you touch it" wive's tale is a myth. Look it up on the Internet from a reputable scientific site if you don't believe me.

[@nevfangiel]

Emily Jacobson but the duckling has imprinted on humans. the babe would not view the mother duck as her own. wouldn't that be an issue?

[@bla7721]

+nevfangiel yes it would be an issue

[@bla7721]

+thelegendofcoo00ol that's a myth

[@bltcrunchy]

ADORABLE!

[@auroramaesaad1246]

AHHHHH CUUUUTTTEEERRRRR!!!!!! btw i know that not a word 😍😍😍😍😱😱😱😱😱😱😍😍😍😍😍😍💖💖💖💖🐣

[@40watt53]

But, cuter is a word.

[@olegrov6910]

SUPER!!!

[@localchibigameuser9732]

darn so cute

[@mattheweskender7781]

Cute as a rabbit 🐰

[@MisterMuffin_]

Naww but she'll miss the hand!

[@anthonymcdonnell6615]

aww, Precious trouble mre than lickly has a family of her now

[@letsclearthatbacklog]

The duck is like comeon let me back In between your fingers

[@monicaford993]

Ducks even if they roam wild aren't really considered "wildlife" since regardless of whether you buy their eggs or find them they can be raised in the same way chickens are with pens and small ponds and domesticated/tamed. Many people who own chickens may also have a small flock of ducks or geese

[@whaddupnanu]

That is not entirely true. There are wild ducks and domestic ducks. It is illegal to take in a wild duck. I have domestic ducks. I tried to help an orphaned wild duck and got in a lot of trouble.

[@monicaford993]

I don't see how you can delineate wild from domestic other than you reared one. Don't wild and domestic ducks mate if given the chance? There are domestic duck breeds but if they're a wild breed like mallards isn't tameness and socialization the only difference? I don't believe farm mallards have been selectively bred to be any different from wild mallards so it's a bit like having a captive tame fox. There are more exotic breeds of fox and duck and then there are more domestic like runner ducks and Russian domestic foxes which have been selectively bred for traits. Just like there are people who raise wild game fowl or heritage birds the breed is wild but the bird is tame and lives in a coop, is handled by people, and had it's eggs eaten. It's not a domestic variety like a Buff Orpington so it doesn't have an inbred inclination towards being around people or lack of fear of them but you get the same function out if it because it's been socialized or tamed. I would say true wild life are things that don't have truly domestic versions or have not been kept captively successfully in the same capacity as a domestic animal.

[@whaddupnanu]

Monica Ford It's not me that classifies them it's the department of natural resources. There are certain breeds of ducks which are wild that need a permit or license to own or care for. I didn't make the law, I was merely pointing out that there are such laws. By the way, a captive tame fox is still classified as a wild animal which requires a permit to keep. You are using "wild" too literally. Just because some animals are tame and people own them doesn't mean they are not classified as wild animals.

[@PSPSMITH2022]

It all depends on your local/city/state regulations. I personally know that many states in the western United States consider mallards "wildlife" and specifically note that capturing, transporting, or otherwise possessing these ducks is illegal and can only be done legally by certified waterfowl rehabilitation or wildlife officers. Raising domestic ducks (such as the muscovy) is legal if your area allows you to raise them. I believe the transportation ban is a bit much in some circumstances (say, when you find some abandoned ducklings in the park...calling a certified waterfowl transportation person seems unnecessary if you can just pick them up and take them to the rehab facility), and I also support people raising animals of their own. Domesticated ducks actually make great additions to a garden, where they do a wonderful job keeping the bug population in check.

[@jeffer2350]

Mallards are not considered wild by nature. You can buy the exact same Mallard from a very larger breeder in a Western state in the USA. By law they must make the ones they sell distinguishable from the ones in the wild. Some breeders remove a back toe when they hatch to insure they are different.

[@denisradion5958]

so kute

[@learnsfi2422]

So cute😍😍😍😍😘 please keep adding videoa🙋🙋

[@kimrube1]

So adorable. I'll bet she/he is hungry! Were you able to feed it? 😊👍💕

[@zuragogberashvili1001]

You are beatiful

[@yashwanthcb]

ducklingality suits better than personality

[@TheOpelkoenjas]

Question: we're planning on getting a baby duckling and a baby chicken soon. What's your advise on what food to give, how much, etc. When they are old and strong enough they'll have a huge yard to roam in at free will, with of course a few shelters against mother nature (rain, wind, cold, heat, etc) and possible predators (cats mostly). Any advice, next to the obligatory legal shots they need here in my country when keeping them as a pet? Ps: Belgium (Europe) here. Cheers.

[@superspider64]

have you guys been keeping up with the wildlife center you took her too?

[@spongebob8625]

aww

[@NekoFoxLvr]

if you said you were raising her for her eggs she would of been considered a farm animal i think

[@AndreaCaio]

❤️

[@mohsenkiae]

😍😍😘😂😂

[@Noiiizeeey]

Could you post a video of her now?

[@ThePinkpopdiva]

Read the description. It says that it's illegal to keep wildlife in your home where they are, and therefore they had to give the duckling to a wildlife rescue place when it was 8 days old.

[@thatssodesi468]

how is this little one doing ?

[@xXxJokerManxXx]

hope she didn't end up in a chinese buffet table like the one in the newspaper ad where she had hatched on LOL

[@bsam3814]

That is not right she is not wildlife you hatched her from an egg

[@MARTINADBA1980]

Ducks make better pets than stupid dogs!!!

[@beautifulsoul3281]

"is not legal " thats a stupid excuse.

[@teresayost6399]

So what so dum