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  1. gingaskunk

    Caring for a brooding wild duck?

    Okay, thank you for your help! Wanting to know if they're fertile has less to do with taste, if I am honest, than simply the fact that I would rather have new baby ducks swimming around than an omelette ;-)
  2. gingaskunk

    Caring for a brooding wild duck?

    Thank you for this. Are wild ducks eggs good to eat (is there any difference between those and domestic ducks)? Also, is it safe to assume that if one egg is/is not fertilized that the rest of the batch will / will not be too?
  3. gingaskunk

    Caring for a brooding wild duck?

    Hey guys and gals, I have an udate and another question for you. So the duck stopped laying (as mentioned previously there were >30 eggs so I assume it was more than 1 duck), but no one came up to sit on the eggs. A couple of weeks ago I went out there and the eggs stank really bad, so I...
  4. gingaskunk

    Caring for a brooding wild duck?

    Okay, thanks for the advice. My wife is all gung-ho about bringing them in and putting them in incubation but I think we need ot leave them there for now. Here in Houston the temps in spring are very similar to thos in fall, but thye only last for about 6-8 weeks. The temperatures have...
  5. gingaskunk

    Caring for a brooding wild duck?

    Sorry, I guess just another indicator of why I haven't yet cinched the Pulitzer.... There was one egg a day laid until we counted 15. Then the momma stopped laying (or coming to the nest at all) for a few days. Then she appeared to be brooding for a few hours each day for a couple of weeks...
  6. gingaskunk

    Caring for a brooding wild duck?

    Hmmm, okay. Is this is a thing that is different by breed do you think? I don't know the breed of these ducks but I am in Houston, TX and they are mottled white and brown, if that helps... this is the best picture I have managed to take of her, just of her butt! Not sure if this will help any....
  7. gingaskunk

    Caring for a brooding wild duck?

    Okay, so, I am not sure if anyone is still following this thread, but we have a new development. As of my last post, the momma duck had laid 15 eggs and not been back to the nest in a few days. I assumed she had finished laying and was preparing to brood. Sure enough a few days later we see...
  8. gingaskunk

    Caring for a brooding wild duck?

    I am in Houston TX. We have just had a run of cooler weather in the last couple of weeks (85-95 deg daily), so I am wondering if that triggered it maybe?
  9. gingaskunk

    Caring for a brooding wild duck?

    Here is the latest picture, taken last night, of the clutch so far. I didn't post because I figured a picture of duck eggs would be boring to a group of people who see them all the time :-)
  10. gingaskunk

    Caring for a brooding wild duck?

    Thank you for your replies! We don't have pets and there aren't really a lot of other animals around as we are in a suburban neighborhood, so I think that as long as I simply avoid going out there as much as possible and only use the side entrance when I do (which is proabably 12-15 feet from...
  11. gingaskunk

    Caring for a brooding wild duck?

    Hey guys and gals, I did a search here but didn't turn anything up but hope you can help. Our house backs on to a small lake and we discovered last week that a duck has been laying eggs in our garden (5 when we found it, 15 as of tonight), and we are very excited! The eggs are under some...
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