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    The Duck Thread

    Hi! I'm a very new duck mom...you may have seen the posts on the Raising Wood Duck's thread....we found several eggs that had blown out of a tree in a storm last Thursday. There were 5 eggs, 2 were completely damaged, 2 were cracked (one badly) and one was intact. We brought them inside and...
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    Raising Wood Ducks

    So we've established our little peeps aren't wood ducks so maybe I shouldn't be continuing on this thread, but you all have been so helpful! I have a couple more questions: the little guys are pretty much hanging out in the water dish. I know they're ducks and like the water but I'm worried...
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    Raising Wood Ducks

    Thanks, Shawn! The little guys are just amazing. I put some feed in the water dispenser (we picked up a small poultry water dispenser the the ring around it) and they love to forage for it. They started climbing in and foraging all around the ring for food, so I quit that, but still float...
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    Raising Wood Ducks

    I'm near Minneapolis, Minnesota. We always have mallards wandering through the yard in the spring. I'd never heard of mallards nesting in trees, but apparently they can. I thought the eggs were really large because we'd never seen eggs this size fall out of a tree before...seen robins eggs...
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    Mallard or Wood duck?

    Thanks, Clint. What's the best way to care for them before we release them? The nest was completely destroyed and we haven't seen the mom anywhere since the storm. They're doing well right now in our home, but I'm guessing they need to get outside and into water pretty soon? I want to keep...
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    Mallard or Wood duck?

    I've posted on the "Raising Wood Ducks" thread about the eggs and nest that were blown out of a tree in a storm Thursday night. he nest was about 20 feet up. We rescued 2 of the eggs and they hatched. I thought they were Wood Ducks, never heard of Mallards nesting in a tree so high up....but...
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    Raising Wood Ducks

    Here's the 2 beauties...doing wonderfully. Eating and drinking. They love romaine lettuce. I'm wondering, though...could they actually be mallards? The eye stripe goes through the eye to the bill, where the images of the wood duck babies eye stripe starts at the eye and runs back. I just...
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    Raising Wood Ducks

    This is #2 looking fantastic. This is #1 looking a little tired but amazingly better!
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    Raising Wood Ducks

    Thank you!! They are already trying to walk....I can't believe the improvement from baby #1 over night. They're both resting right now, but both are trying to walk and eyes are starting to open. The change in just 2 hours is amazing! I'm thinking of making a plastic bin the new home...high...
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    Raising Wood Ducks

    Our second egg hatched this morning! I did help a little bit. He'd pipped a little bit but hadn't done anything else so I carefully zipped around the edge of the shell and he let himself out, no yolk sack. He's pretty tired so not doing much; wiggling and peeping a bit. His umbilicus bled a...
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    Wood duck questions

    I posted some things on the thread "Raising Wood Ducks" but I have a couple questions that I'd like answers to....better answers than just Googling. I've got a chick that hatched this morning (the egg fell from a nest in a bad storm, was cracked but the chick was peeping. Got him unstuck from...
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    Raising Wood Ducks

    Don't mean to dominate this thread, but I have an update. Our little guy is out of the shell. He was so active and moving around, but his head was obviously stuck to the inside of the shell. I gently moistened the side of his head and lifted the shell ever so carefully and as soon as it was...
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    Raising Wood Ducks

    Here's my little guy (or gal). He/she is very active this morning. Moving a lot, twitching, peeping and opening his mouth. He's very reactive to sound. He/she has scootched out of it's shell quite a bit, but doesn't seem to be determined to come out all the way. The foot will swing out, the...
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    Raising Wood Ducks

    Thanks for the reply's. We made an incubator from a cardboard box with a towel on the bottom and a clamp light that's not directed right at the eggs to minimize direct radiant heat and a towel covering. The temp is a constant 100. One of the chicks passed last night, it was very exposed and...
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    Raising Wood Ducks

    You all are going to think I'm nuts....but here goes. We had a terrible storm last night. We found 5 very large eggs and a partial nest blown out of a very high tree. 2 of the eggs were crushed beyond help, one still with yolk. 1 is intact. 2 were cracked. We didn't know what they were and...
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