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Quote: Originally Posted by tvalle01  Hi i am new to hatching duck eggs so when i candle them it us Hard to tell what I am looking at. These two pictures are each different duck eggs that I have candled. This is day five...
 Awwwe so cute!
It's been 2 weeks with proper nutrition. Oh my goodness have they grown! Thanks everyone, for your help!  
Sounds like the TLC is working! Keep up the good work!
Okay, after adding B-complex tablets to their water for the last 3 days, they are now at least able to hobble around. Now, I think one is an Ancona, another is Ancona/Pekin, and the other two are Pekins. The Ancona/Pekin (I'm guessing)...
Quote: But when hatching time comes, don't throw out any eggs if they don't hatch right off. Sometimes you will get a late bloomer that just needs some extra time to come out of the shell Out of 4 duck eggs, 2 hatched on day 25,...
How is she? Any improvement? 
And, liver is among the top foods high in niacin. Uhm, no. Not ready to leave liver laying around the brooder. They're messy enough. 
I feel badly that I didn't do much research on what grains to grind up and what percentages of nutrients I was providing. I was hoping to mimic foraging to some extent. I pretty much ground up all my favorite "cereal". It wasn't cheap,...
Just out of curiosity, how much niacin do worms provide? I vermicompost. I gave them a half dozen red wigglers today. They tasted them and flung them all over at first, but after an hour, there were none to be found anywhere. 
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