A serious of annoying events. First the heat lamp burnt out, which made sense since I haven't used the set up in two years when I was raising baby chickens. So we get a new bulb. The fixture failed... like what? How? So my partner runs to Bunnings gets a new one.. Put the lamp in the new fixture, and turns on to spark off 2 seconds later... Are you kidding me!!! So now it is late and we must find away to improvise.
The ducks are in the bathroom with the panel heater so that the over all room temp can be warmer. We have the thermometer leading outside of the door so that we can check the temp with out needing to disturb them. We had to set up a nightlight in the bathroom because they were scared in complete darkness. Eric woke up every two hours to check the temp.
The good news, it worked and everything went smoothly through the night.
The bad news, we can't go get a new set up until Saturday afternoon since Eric needs the car for work in Noosa, which is a little more than a 35 min drive from us, so I can't easily drop him off to use the car myself during the day because I also have work! Frustrating, but it is working and we are continually home so can check the situation regularly.
The ducklings meanwhile are happy, eating, and getting their baths. Yesterday they went in the shower instead and they seemed to enjoy that
I was getting a little scared that one may hop out of the sink and the fall to the floor could be very serious indeed. So the shower is a bit safer especially since they are going to quickly grow up into fairly big birds. They could even walk themselves into the shower.