My sisters, mother, and I just saved at least nine baby ducklings not too long ago. They, including the mother duck, were all running in every which way on the busy road in front of our house. Us and several people saved the ducklings from harm, but the mother duckling fled after we all tried to coax her back to wherever she came from so we could shoo the ducklings back with her, too.

So now we're all stuck with a box full of cheeping little creatures, not knowing what to do at all. I'm trying to research, since I, even at the age of thirteen, have the most knowledge out of most of my family. Hehe. =)

I'd really appreciate it if someone could please post some useful information on how we should rear these little feather-bunches of joy, and then eventually let them go off.

Is it possible to make them return to the wild once again, after they're all raised and finished growing? If we weren't so scared of the hawks all around our house getting to the little dears, we would've let them run off with their mom in our big backyard a long time ago.

Thanks!

-Lyssa