Kids & Family

Local Home Depot Doubling as Birth Place for Ducklings

A mother duck has decided to lay her eggs at the home improvement store in Gurnee and the ducklings are expected to be born in the coming weeks, according to the Daily Herald.

A Home Depot in Gurnee will also soon serve as the birth place for a family of ducklings as their mother has decided to lay her eggs in a pallet of paver brick sand bags in an upper storage area at the store, the Daily Herald reports. 

Employees at the store have been feeding the mother-to-be duck food, giving her water and have set up a sign and bags to protect her and her eggs, according to the article. 

Once the ducklings are born, employees have learned they will be able to put the babies into a box, bring them down to a nearby pond and the mother should follow, according to the Daily Herald. 

Read more on the Daily Herald. 


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