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It finally hatched today! It is definitely a common merganser. It is starting to get fluffy tonight and has already eaten its first mealworm. I'm so excited! What a cute baby!

I'm seeing a very narrow little bill in the pip. Looking at common waterfowl we have around here, I'm wondering if it's a merganser. I hadn't even heard of them, but we do have a few as permanent residents here. The egg was in the rocks right on the edge of the river, all alone. Maybe mama was...

I didn't do anything with it last night. Put it back in the incubator to wait until today. I checked on it this evening when I came home from work, and it's pipped! I can hear baby peeping in there. Come on baby, come out and play! Now to all sit on our hands and wait. Everybody keep...

I have one egg in an incubator. My kids picked it up off the side of the river and we are assuming it's a mallard. There doesn't seem to be much duck variety at our little bitty river here in southern New Mexico. We put it in a borrowed incubator, and today is day 29. I've read online that...