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Thanks for your reply. I'm sure you're right and he'll be fine. I'm a nervous 'hatcher' at the best of times and I'm beyond excited about these ducklings as their parents were killed (along with all our lovely chickens) by a fox about 4 1/2 weeks ago. I found an undiscovered nest a couple of...

As the title says, my very first duck egg has hatched (I'm SO excited). The duckling is staggering about in the incubator and looks OK. The egg looks as though it's got some yolk left inside. I thought that they were supposed to absorb all the yolk on their own? It's a while since I hatched...