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We're not sure what to do about it. She is breathing fine, but seems to have a little trouble drinking water. She doesn't seem to be in any real distress. We were feeding her some blueberries, and it happened then. She scared us for a while because she clearly seemed to be choking. Then it got a...

We have a duck that likes to come inside our house sometimes. She's really sort of an indoor-outdoor duck. Problem is: the poop REALLY stinks. My daughter heard that certain brands of duck food produce stinkier poop than others. We use Dumor, but she read somewhere that Dumor is supposed to...

Can we enter duck photos?

Thank you so much for your reply. I do have a divider I can use in the coop. Although the little duck is still too young to know for sure, we are beginning to see signs that the duck is a female. That would give us 1 drake and 2 females. How do you think a scenario like that might turn out?

We have a very special Pekin duckling. His father, who we loved very much and was the alpha of our ducks, was killed by a fox. We took all the eggs that had been fertilized by him (only 3) and tried incubating them. We were able to hatch one. It has been alone in the brooder with no other ducks...

Our duckling is about a month old now. The brooder is a rabbit hutch. Earlier this evening, the hutch lid slammed shut on the heating lamp and destroyed the bulb. I don't have anything else I can use right now. It's about 70 degrees in the room. Will the duckie be okay without a heating lamp...

We had the same problem with our duckling eating the wood chips. We tried bigger wood chips, but there were smaller ones mixed in and he ate those too. There were a couple of times when he was near choking - scared us to death. We took them out. Now we use straw like we have in our coop and run...

Thank you Fireflybabe56! I am grinning from ear to ear!!!

I SAVED MY LITTLE DUCKIE!!! I am so glad I intervened. His umbilical cord was off, and what I think was the remains of his yolk sac was just a shriveled up piece of yuk. He just couldn't get out; the membrane was too tough. He is just adorable!!!! Although not many people have replied to my...

I have a duck that was not making any progress. He pipped about 48 hours ago. His beak was sticking out, and he is slightly breach. I chipped away at the shell near the beak and widened the hole. The membrane is very tough, so I guess that means he didn't get enough humidity. I was able to tear...

I cross posted this in the duck forum. I got only one response. That person said they wouldn't wait much longer to intervene, and I tend to agree. Any one else? Please, please, please share your wisdom...

Is it possible it could be shrink wrapped?

Thank you so much SouthernPride for you response. That is what I was thinking. I've watched tons of videos on intervening, so I think I can do it. I'll wait until my daughter comes home from school. She wanted to be there.

How much longer should I wait to assist with the hatching? There is plenty of movement and chirping. The egg rocks sometimes a little. There is only a little slit in the membrane where he externally pipped, but he's breathing. About a nickel size of shell came off and we are able to see the...

How much longer should I wait to assist with the hatching? There is plenty of movement and chirping. The egg rocks sometimes a little. There is only a little slit in the membrane where he externally pipped, but he's breathing. About a nickel size of shell came off and we are able to see the...

I do hope he/she is okay. Thank you so much. Any other advice would be so appreciated.

Thank you so much for your response, subhanalah. My daughter and I just wiped away the condensation. We had sponges in the incubator and took them out as well. There is still water below the grill. The duck was chirping quite a bit and we can see him moving in the air sac. Where he pipped the...

Hi Everyone. First timer here (with hatching). We have incubated a Peking duck egg. I don't know exactly how many days it has been, but I know we're in the final hours. The duckling pipped the air sac early yesterday (or during the night before). We can sometimes hear chirping. It made a small...

Should I worry about the pipping of the egg on the opposite end? And how is that happening since we are hearing chirping and seeing the beak in the air sac?

HELP! We don't know what we're doing and we're trying to hatch a duck in our incubator. It's been about 28 days. Last night, we noticed a small outward dent on the wrong end of the egg. This morning, we heard chirping! We candled it and we can see the beak in the air sac and hear chirping...