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Well, the third one has developed a mild case of splay legs while drying off in the bator, so I now have her all taped up. She's rather funny looking: Another funny thing is: I just discovered I am wildly allergic to duckling fluff! Waaaaaahh-CHOOOO!!!

Quote: Hey you! Post a pic of your Daisies and I'll let you in on the weighing secret. LOL! I'd like to see how they all finally turned out. Have any of them started laying yet? Mine have, just this week. Yours were a few weeks older so you should be seeing some eggs round about now. As for...

Third one just popped out! I really think that's them all done now. Not expecting any more...

I have just investigated further when I removed the first one to the brooder - he was stomping all over the newer one and pecking at its face - and I see I have one more pipped the shell and another alive but not yet pipped. The other four are definitely dead in shell, no internal pips or...

Sadly, I think that's probably it. I started off with 18 eggs but my trusty old bator suddenly went wonky and cooked them all to 105F before I noticed what was happening. I'm surprised any of them survived, really. I transferred them all to a homemade still air styro bator that I bought in an...

A full day later... the second one just hatched out too! Here's the photo - right after the second one hatched: I had no idea baby ducks were so much cuter than baby chickens!

I ended up dry incubating my duck eggs after day 10 when I realised they weren't losing moisture fast enough. I ignored all the standard stuff about duck eggs needing more humidity than chicken eggs and just went with my trusty set of digital scales, Brinsea's recommendation of a 15% weight...