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Thank you. Would you treat the humidity any different?

Thank you. They've been upright so far. Would you lie them down to hatch at all?

😂 Mine seem to like small slugs when they come in that spiral crispy coating but on touching them unshelled they flick their heads in disgust and move on!

I'm sorry about your little Call duckling. They're so perfect its hard to think anything could happen to them, yet worry anything could happen to them at the same time! I've got a couple of videos of my old boy Edwin you might enjoy 😊 Taken 4 years apart! Its a little brown flock we keep 😂 I...

Very saddled shipped muscovy eggs; we are talking ones that arrived with the air cells right down to the middle on some. Day 9 and we have 5/6 developing. All the embryos are just under the air cell so the veins are poking out. Any tips? Air sacs aren't detached but the air was moving a lot when...

Thank you for your incredibly kind and sensitive message Rachel. We had a good old cuddle and cry when I got home. You can't help questioning all the decisions you made when things don't turn out so having you follow and root for us and sending all your loving messages has been a great comfort...

Baby passed away last night. We have just buried them with their fluffy snuggle sock. Their breathing became so laboured my partner wanted to help them and he couldn't have been more attached. The navel started to leak and stick to their bedding (I attach a picture purely for educational reasons...

I'm looking at that photo now and thinking it does look red and swollen. Apparently baby is leaking yellow stuff. My partner is cuddling him (his primary caregiver) so it's just a wait now I think. Absolutely devastated. Mortality I've read for this seems to peak at 5-7 days. At day 7 it makes...

Baby is breathing more laboured. Unfortunately I'm at work but my partner thinks they're coming to their close 😭

Day 7. Updating dutifully because I believe the nub is healing well and this might serve someone else with a similar issue. So the nub seems to be doing well but the continued click in the breathing appears to be getting worse. It was this click that made me first open the egg when it had been...

Thank you so much for following this journey 💗 I had Penelope, Melody and Gordon lined up but with our young boys and the importance I felt it was this baby had a strong bond with a primary caregiver (and the boys being very much mum-orientated with me!) my partner has developed a really...

Day 5 progress. Eating and getting normal ducky poos now. This is after a clean and a spray of their wound wash so they're a little damp!

Kelsey I've just read this whole thread. I don't have experience with Marek's but I'm blown away with your love for your birds and your ability to help them when they needed you most. You're so brave and kind, and what lovely people who have been here supporting you.

A little (huge!) update! Day 4 after hatching and baby is now eating! Mainly through filtering their water which we have scattered crumbs in (not interested in their little dish of food) but getting that extra niacin in them now 💗 We will let them establish what they're doing and see if we can...

@Miss Lydia I hope you don't mind me tagging you as I saw you like my post on the similar situation. Do you have any suggestions or anything we could do differently? Baby is under a brooder on top of a baby towel which we are changing daily.

@ReeChatelain Did your baby survive? We have a similar situation, I realise this is a very old post but my heart wanted to know 😔

Here we are on day 4. Duckling is actively drinking. We are using SmartWater which is which is vapour distilled water with electrolytes added. We have also put some Marigold Engevita yeast flakes into their crumb which is then soaked in the electrolyte water (we were told it was better at this...

Here is the nub today (3 days since hatch). They are perking up and drinking. We are going to push some food today.

I also notice the baby on this post in 2015(!), the one that seemed so familiar and lead me back here (why do I ever stray when I have poultry questions?!) the baby kicked out too.

I'm incredibly relieved for this second opinion. I had that horrible feeling yesterday where all my blood felt cold and heavy! I don't think anyone was intentionally unkind but it felt like I was being told I had killed him when I have read up nearly every night and did what I thought were good...