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Enter the flock size, the duck age and the season. The calculator starts from a daily drinking figure per duck, adjusts it for heat, and scales it to the flock per day and per week, plus the number of 10 litre buckets per day. Results are planning estimates, not veterinary advice. Bathing and splashing water is extra.
An adult duck drinks about 1.00 litre per day in this calculator, a young duck about 0.60 litres and a duckling about 0.30 litres. Heat lifts intake: the hot factor is 1.3, cool is 0.9 and moderate is 1.0. Ten adults at moderate temperature need 1.00 litre each, 10.00 litres per day and 70.00 litres per week, which is 1 bucket of 10 litres per day for drinking alone. Use this duck waterer guide to size waterers from daily flock use.
Ducks use water for more than drinking: they dip the whole head to clean eyes and nostrils, and they splash and preen in open water. Drinking water must be deep enough for head dipping, at least 4.5 cm from day one and 10 cm from three weeks. Splashing water is lost fast, so keep drinking water separate from bathing water when you want a clean drinking supply.
Ducklings need constant access to water and feed, because they cannot go long without water and they can choke on dry feed without water nearby. Laying ducks and ducks in heat drink more than the base figure, so use the hot factor in summer and check waterers twice daily. Adults can go about 8 hours overnight without water, but ducklings cannot.
Eight ducklings in hot weather need 0.39 litres each, 3.12 litres per day and 21.84 litres per week, which is 1 bucket of 10 litres per day for drinking. Use several waterers rather than one large one, keep them near feed, and clean them daily, because ducks foul water quickly with feed, mud and droppings.
An adult duck drinks about 1.00 litre per day in this calculator, a young duck about 0.60 litres and a duckling about 0.30 litres, more in heat.
Ten adults at moderate temperature need 10.00 litres of drinking water per day, plus extra for bathing and splashing.
Adults can go about 8 hours overnight without water, but ducklings need constant access to feed and water.
Deep enough to submerge the whole head: at least 4.5 cm from day one and 10 cm from three weeks.
No, a bucket or trough deep enough for head dipping covers drinking and cleaning. A pond is a bonus for bathing, not a health requirement.
Daily at least, and more often in heat or with ducklings, because ducks foul water quickly and dirty water spreads disease.
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