One of our Muscovy Ducks laid eggs under our Gazebo which is pretty much right on our pond. I discovered this only when I saw momma duck with one baby. I looked around and finally saw her nest way up under the deck that hands over our pond off the Gazebo. I figured she would round this little...
I have a Blue swed that has had his bill out for about 5 hours and I am not seeing much progress. I lost one in the past for not intervening sooner but don't want to jump the gun either. He is peeping pretty good still. There is another egg that is pipped and one little duck already hatched...
I had a couple different varieties of duck eggs in my incubator. My hatch days was Monday, May 13th. On Saturday, May 11th, eggs were hatching like crazy, I had 6 healthy chicks hatch that day. Left in my incubator were all 4 Call duck eggs and either 2 Blue Swed or Peking eggs. They were doing...
My first batch of incubated duck eggs started hatching yesterday. 5 have hatched out natrally and I just helped one this morning. The reason I helped was because it was actually the first one to have made a hole in it's shell. It's bill was the only this that could get through the hole and he...
We have had ducks going on 2 years now. We have a large pond and none of our ducks are kept in cages or pens. We started noticing last year that the ducks were laying eggs pretty much everywhere. This year we decided it would be fun to incubate some eggs and have some babies. My husband is...
This little Blue Swed duck is about 2 years old, her name is "The Widow Bugsy". We have no idea what is wrong with her. Can someone advice? I'm attaching a picture.