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    Seemingly Healthy Ducklings Dying!

    Oh my gosh, good luck! This morning the 4 still appear strong and have definitely been eating and drinking. I’m hoping whatever was wrong with the others has run it’s course and these guys will be ok...
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    Seemingly Healthy Ducklings Dying!

    I’ll have my mom make them some in the morning and watch them! The other piece that makes this hard is that I’m a pharmacy student working 13 hour days this week.. it seems like they couldn’t have hatched at a busier time :/
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    Seemingly Healthy Ducklings Dying!

    Hi there! I had 9 duck eggs incubating. 8 of them had hatched as of Saturday night (2 minimally assisted, 6 hatched completely unassisted). It is now Monday night, and 4 of those ducklings have died. 2 deaths were the 2 assists, and I can understand why they may have died. The other 2 were the...
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    Dark eggs...

    I have two eggs in my batch that have started turning black and I'm reading that this is from bacteria entering the shell. Whenever I've had to handle the eggs I've washed my hands thoroughly, but I'm wondering if the hatched chicks could have caused this? Mine were left in the incubator until...
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    Duck eggs turning black? HELP! (pic)

    I have two eggs in my batch that have started turning black and I'm reading that this is from bacteria entering the shell. Whenever I've had to handle the eggs I've washed my hands thoroughly, but I'm wondering if the hatched chicks could have caused this? Mine were left in the incubator until...
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    First time Duck Mom

    Thanks! It's much better! Spent the night in the incubator and was running around this morning so was switched to a brooder with the other two. It's acting like a healthy little duckling :)
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    First time Duck Mom

    Ok, this is my first batch of duck eggs that I've incubated. They've been in for 26 days. Kept at stable temp and humidity throughout as well as turning every 12 hours. The first chick started hatching yesterday afternoon and finally hatched 2 hours ago after two other eggs. The other two were...
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