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    Aggressive Ducklings

    Thank you for replying , yes I have provided lots of feed and water stations, the ducklings see the new ducks drinking and eating and then charge at them .... it does seem the duck out of my 4 ducklings is the worst for doing this and not the drakes although the drakes follow her lead , the...
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    Aggressive Ducklings

    The new ducks are around a year old and are miniture appleyards so although bigger there is not a great difference in size , the silver bantams ducklings at the moment are almost at their size which would be slightly smaller. That's a great idea about splitting the ducklings up and rotating the...
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    Aggressive Ducklings

    Hi, We have incubated 4 silver bantam ducklings which are now 10 weeks old and are now outside ... we have 3 drakes and 1 duck which we know is not a good ratio but couldnt bare to part with them so we"ve added some more ducks to the flock. We are really surprised at how aggressive the...
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    Bantam duck eggs rocking at 21 days

    I think I've manage to copy link!
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    Bantam duck eggs rocking at 21 days

    Oooo I can try but I've never uploaded anything before so might take me a while to work it out (I'm not very techy) Yes all hatch 4 out of 4 😁
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    17 hours after internal pip and no sign of external pip

    4 very strong babies
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    Bantam duck eggs rocking at 21 days

    I have a video of one pushing itself out after assisting which shows perfectly how to know when they are ready but I'm struggling to put it on here
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    Bantam duck eggs rocking at 21 days

    Welcome to the world 🐥🐥🐥🐥
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    17 hours after internal pip and no sign of external pip

    Thank you, your comment has made me feel better about assisting with the safety hole , I have a feeling these little ones are going to need more in the coming hours but praying they make it out by themselves. These were also shipped and was worried at first with a couple of saddled air cells...
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    17 hours after internal pip and no sign of external pip

    Apologies I didnt mention above about lack of information on silver bantom ducks I've lost the plot and was on a previous thread 😁🦆😁
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    17 hours after internal pip and no sign of external pip

    Rightly or wrongly I obviously looked via candle method! All babies are still alive, we are 24 hours now since internal pip, and still no external pipping , we have done the emergency breathing hole and I feel a lot happier now I know they wont run out of air although it's still very stressful...
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    Bantam duck eggs rocking at 21 days

    All babies are still alive, we are 24 hours now since internal pip, and still no external pipping , we have done the emergency breathing hole and I feel a lot happier now I know they wont run out of air although it's still very stressful 😓 I'm following the thread on here about assisted hatching...
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    Bantam duck eggs rocking at 21 days

    Hi was going to message in a min ... so ducklings internally pipped last night around 9 or could of been before but it was 9 that I noticed ... I've been watching the incubator like a hawk today and no sign of external pip just some tapping but here we are 18 hours later and no progress for the...
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    17 hours after internal pip and no sign of external pip

    I have silver bantam ducks on lockdown now, they started rocking at 21 days so after asking on here I locked down 22 days ..theve been on lock down for 3 days and have internally pipped yesterday around 9 pm (probally a bit before)... it is now 17 hours and no sign of external pip although I can...
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    Anyone know about hatching bantam ducks??!!!

    I have silver bantam ducks on lockdown now, they started rocking at 21 days so after asking on here I locked down 22 days ..theve been on lock down for 3 days and have internally pipped yesterday around 9 pm (probally a bit before)... it is now 17 hours and no sign of external pip although I can...
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