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    Cold Eggs - Duck taken.

    Huge thank you to all of you for your advice… these eggs hatched yesterday and a couple this morning. I had to move three out the incubator as it’s tiny, but they’ll all be reunited this evening. Thank you again!
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    Cold Eggs - Duck taken.

    Sorry.. me again. I have left the incubator alone. Saw lots of wiggling yesterday. I thought today there might be an external pip, but nothing and not wiggling like yesterday. Is that concerning? I’m just worried because I didn’t turn the eggs as I wasn’t sure of exact hatch date… I thought...
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    Cold Eggs - Duck taken.

    Thank you all. Fingers crossed. I candled tonight and I saw movement in each one of the eggs. No obvious internal pips. I’m going to leave them alone. She’s done all the hard work.. I just need to leave them to it now.
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    Cold Eggs - Duck taken.

    Yup. Placed them in an incubator on Saturday as soon as I realised. Mum was taken and two of our chickens. Probably a fox.. found the feathers but nothing else. We’ve not had any losses for 13 years, awful time for her to be taken though, when she was so close and she’d been so dedicated to...
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    Cold Eggs - Duck taken.

    How long was it between you setting them in the incubator and your first pip? I’m hoping mine are close. Just makes it harder not knowing the exact dates. Do you think candle and go into lockdown tonight regardless? Or wait until I see an internal pip and then go into lockdown? On my...
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    Cold Eggs - Duck taken.

    Ok. Thank you so much. Really appreciate. I keep looking through the side of the incubator to try and see rocking. Please just rock eggs!!
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    Cold Eggs - Duck taken.

    Ok.. these are fairly useless. Sorry. I need another pair of hands and a proper egg torch. 7/8 have got veins. Some more obvious. I couldn’t see movement but I was trying to go fairly fast. Air sacs vary a lot but I couldn’t see any internal pips. Egg 7 looked totally different, undeveloped...
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    Cold Eggs - Duck taken.

    I’m amazed! I figured the cold would have been too much. Ok, so now pressure is on not to mess this up!!! When she was sitting on her nest I remember thinking how good it was going to be to have ducklings without the panic of having to incubate! Thank you so much, I will candle tonight and...
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    Cold Eggs - Duck taken.

    Thank you for replying. Yes. Have an incubator. I’ve only incubated twice before - a year or so ago. She was a runner duck. So candle to check air sac? I remember candling just before lockdown and finding it impossible to see anything other than an air sac. But I am complete novice.
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    Cold Eggs - Duck taken.

    My duck had been sitting for over three weeks. I checked on her and the eggs last night, fine. This morning I went to see her and she’s gone and her eggs were cold. I’ve collected her 8 eggs and immediately put them into an incubator. Worst case 12 hours without her on them but might be less...
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    12 Hours Old Duckling- Eyes closed, not standing

    Hello Just sending an update and a huge thank you. He’s having his vitamins everyday and is doing really well. He keeps up with the other one now! I’m really grateful for your responses and support. Thank you
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    12 Hours Old Duckling- Eyes closed, not standing

    Here you are
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    12 Hours Old Duckling- Eyes closed, not standing

    400 iu vitamin E capsules and liquid vitamin b complex. He’s in the background... standing!!
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    12 Hours Old Duckling- Eyes closed, not standing

    Doing better today! Walking and eating and drinking on his own. Wobbly but doing it. Vitamins arrived. How much should he be having?
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    12 Hours Old Duckling- Eyes closed, not standing

    Hopefully everything should arrive tomorrow. We’re on lockdown here and the chemists didn’t have anything close. BUT he’s doing better today than yesterday so fingers crossed with the vitamins he will do even better. He’s being propped up but there’s no chance he would have done this yesterday.
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