Feed the ducklings a mixture of starter crumbs.

How to care for baby ducks after hatching. Baby ducks need to be kept very warm in the first few weeks after they hatch, to give them the chance to get used to the chilly air outside their eggs. Ducklings have week legs for the first few days, so the paper towel will help them stand. They are still absorbing the last of the nutrients that were available to them.

Provide shallow dishes of pondweed/water from rivers and streams. They won’t eat for the first 24 hours after they hatch. Ducks can go up to 36 hours with.

You won’t go wrong with that. For hatching duck eggs, your incubator temperature should be 99.5 fahrenheit (37.5 celsius). Newspaper is slippery to walk on so adding a layer of paper towel over top is a good idea.

There will be tiny crustaceans and bugs in this water, which they will forage for. A duckling needs about 24 hours after they have hatched from their shells to get used to the new world that they have found themselves in.