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Ngaww Andrea my sweet little duckling didn't make it.. I gave up on incubating the eggs too traumatic losing the babies, So I left it Mummy Duck and she hatched out 3 of the hundred plus eggs but suffocated them. Good news is after the first lengthy lay in winter, the warmer weather arrived &...

My duckling is on his third day hatching and is out of the egg now after a long assisted hatch period but has an unabsorbed egg yolk still attached, I saw it this morning and left him in the bator on a warm wet cloth but it dosent appear as though any has absorbed and the yolk sac looks a bit...

Thankyou I will give it a thourough reading through and proceed from there when and if need be.. Here is a pic of Duckybaby thus far.. And is it normal for the outer white membrane to be so thick and tough?

Well we are finally here and im so thankfull weve had some mortalitys along the way but I currently have 2 eggs that are in the hatching process!!! One cracked his egg lastnight and this morn had another crack alongside it but not enough to come through.. Is this called unzipping? And egg 2 has...

I went back to recheck the two eggs and there was no change so I decided to open one and post the result of what I saw, the other is still in the incubator although it also seems to be a goner with no movement. Will take a photo of the other egg very soon. The red area was a distinctive veined...

So we waited 2 months for ducklings to come naturally but its obviously just too darn cold out so have bought an incubator and started the process.. All was going well but today 2 of the eggs (both on day 15) have a very distinctive red rim around the whole outter occupied part of egg and the...

I believe she is a black cambell and her partner is a white Swedish.

Okay thankyou I will candel them today, I haven't wanted to intrude to mch but you are right about the nest it is huge and I believe I do need to start shifting some out for her. Iv never done candling before either!

Hiya..Okay a float test, is that as easy as it sounds? I have read contradicting info about putting the eggs in water as it may strip of the layer that keeps bacteria out do you know if theres any truth to that hun? I really want to find out if there fertile or not as I think I will have to...

My beautifull ducks have been mating for some time now (few months) and started laying eggs on the 1 May. Fergie has a super big nest i stopped counting the eggs at 24 as she covered them up and made a second layer on top. I didnt want to dig around and intrude to much. But there has been no...

Yes 25+ of the lil lovelies.. as its my first time round im a little unsure as to what I should do in terms of not wanting to interfere but I would like the best survival rate possible :-/

Yes good point Whangarei is a small town up the top of the North Island in New Zealand. Its currently our winter atm so lil worried bout these eggs we have but well see how it goes, have just popped up a post regarding that as well.

Last count we were blessed with 25 eggs, She sits on them till around midday and than goes off to forage till some hour of the early morning, We have given her an abundance of hay to nest in and shes built a beautiful fat bed for them. My question is being winter here in New Zealand atm should I...

Thankyou Miss Lydia, No I bought them off a farm up in whangarei last year and was told they were paradise ducks, but when I googled I realized they def aren't paradise ducks lols.

These are my 2 gorgeous ducks they are about a yr old now. Can anyone tell me what breed they are please? I have looked but am unsure as there is so many that are of similar resemblance!! Rufus the white male has a curl n his back feather, a orange bill and legs & Fergie is the female black with...