Not necessarily, when the chick has been hatched by the duck mother she will give the chick the same water resistance she gives to the ducklings. Both don’t have the oily fat produced by their own preen gland. It develops a lot later and for example ducklings born in a breeder will drown easily as well.
Sir that is a chicken it may be floating now but in a min or so that critter is gonna drown. Ducks float for more reasons than they are water resistant.
I believe they're saying ducklings normally don't produce enough oil of their own so the mother duck will spread her own oil onto them by, I assume, preening. So by that logic the chick should be receiving the same treatment, and is capable of having oil spread on it despite not being a duck.... I have no idea if this is true, just clarifying what McJoligh said.
Thanks for clarifying As a German my english is not the best so I can easily be misunderstood. I am totally aware that this is a chicken. I am breeding chicken, ducks and geese for 10+ years now and things like this happen. And therefore I have seen swimming chicken, drowning ducklings and goslings under a chicken.
thrael
Real gangsters don't need webbed feet yo
Conz
that chick is going to stop being buoyant and drown if it stays in the water :|
SuperSaiyanYamcha
Look at all doze chickens!
psmith00
poor little critter is doing a lot more work that the others since doesn't have webbed feet but he's a champ doing it at all.
c444minfishing
Ducklings!
TZO2k15
If no mama, why mama shaped?
oozabooza
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, swims like a duck, it might not be a duck
darrowcd
Mom’s got some splainin’ to do.
JustANerdInTheWorld
This is basically the story of Tarzan.
Munchman347
Well, she's certainly not chicken!... 🐣🐤
FailedMitosis
nachosyndicate
spitfires2000
"I floats, I swims, I belongs!"
ReallyOG
“My dude! Noooooo!!”
- everyone
gnowmgnight6
A duck is just a floating chicken.
eepsheep
Chickens float too.
noReallyIamPrincessBob
You have to save the chick! Their feathers will get saturated and they’ll drown. 😟
reurra
TrueLegateDamar
McJoligh
Not necessarily, when the chick has been hatched by the duck mother she will give the chick the same water resistance she gives to the ducklings. Both don’t have the oily fat produced by their own preen gland. It develops a lot later and for example ducklings born in a breeder will drown easily as well.
SlightChungus
Sir that is a chicken it may be floating now but in a min or so that critter is gonna drown. Ducks float for more reasons than they are water resistant.
onepinksheep
Did you not notice that the chick is a chicken, not a duck?
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
but this is a chicken chick
Raileks
I believe they're saying ducklings normally don't produce enough oil of their own so the mother duck will spread her own oil onto them by, I assume, preening. So by that logic the chick should be receiving the same treatment, and is capable of having oil spread on it despite not being a duck.... I have no idea if this is true, just clarifying what McJoligh said.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
ah, I see
McJoligh
Thanks for clarifying
As a German my english is not the best so I can easily be misunderstood.
I am totally aware that this is a chicken. I am breeding chicken, ducks and geese for 10+ years now and things like this happen. And therefore I have seen swimming chicken, drowning ducklings and goslings under a chicken.