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Yes, it did. He's a fuzzy little baby now. I agree the others are a little older but that's the youngest you can get from a feed store. They don't bully him though, they snuggle and guide him. :)

Swim lesson today. The little survivor is doing great! The yellow ones were diving all over the sink but the little guy didn't give it a try today

If he's still doing well and continuing to get stronger then we can have a little swim tomorrow and I'll take pictures :)

His eyes aren't crusty or anything just kind of down his back. Not sure if he was Sticky when hatched because I didn't want to open the lid and potentially hurt the others. He is adapting well to his friends from the feed store. He started out scared of them but with patience from them he has...

Our hens still aren't broody yet. So we will collect another week worth of eggs and try it again. This time we will know what to do different.

The one we hatched is kind of hard to see in a picture because he's so dark. But it's a little mallard. At least I've seen him have some tastes of food and water. And I put a second much smaller dish of water that has probiotic and electrolyte in it and he's helped himself to that too.

So that brings me to my next question. The little duck that I hatched is all crusty, not soft and fluffy like I'm used to. Am I supposed to wash him or something?

Quickly candled the remaining eggs. Zero movement in any of them :( Something must have gone wrong the last couple of days, probably the temperature like suggested... Ran to the feed store and got a couple buddies for our ONE survivor.

I had assumed the temp gauge would be a little off so I have it set for 37.3C (since I read it should be at 37.1C) and my humidity is reading 84% I did have it between 79-80 but it went up a little when the duckling hatched and is working its way back down. Unfortunately, I have no other...

We already have a brooder set up and ready to go for the ducklings, different from the chicks. I just wasn't sure about the poor guy being alone but the mirror and stuffed animal are a good idea. I'll have to call and see when our TSC gets another batch of ducklings in. We have one about 7mins...

We did what the instructions for the incubator said for set up. It came with a bilt-in thermometer and humidity gage. Other than that I wouldn't know how else to calibrate it. :/

We have 13 mallard eggs, all were fertile and moving around at day 25 when I took them out of the turner. I've followed some of the forums and kept the temperature and humidity as recommended. However, the first duckling just hatched yesterday (day 32) and now we are nearing 24hrs and the other...