I know this is an old thread but I can say YES. Snapping turtles will even kill an adult fully grown duck. My one year old female ROUEN was brutally killed by a huge snapping turtle in my pond! She was sitting by the edge of the water at 8:40 in the morning & the water exploded and it drowned...
Update it started externally pipping yesterday and could barely hear it peeping. It’s making the pips bigger overnight! I clearly heard the sweet booger peeping And lots of wiggling.
Update on my lil duck egg! I candled it yesterday and it’s bill is in and out of the air sac! It gets very sassy when the lights on it! Probably screaming “hey! Get that Light out of my eyes!” I’ve seen the entire egg wobble and move. It’s amazing and I have no idea what one doing! It’s still in...
My temps running 98.7 to 99.5 most of the time. I’ve kept my humidity around 60-65% until a week ago and increased it to 68-75. At the moment I’m at 73% humidity and the lil fella looks like it’s close but I’m so afraid of killing(drowning) the lil booger I’m dreaming about it. 😱🤷♀️ I don’t...
Lil more info about my baby duck. We discovered a nest in my neighbors yard from a pair of hybrid mallards that Are wild and stay in my woods behind my house! About 4 days after finding the nest we found 3 eggs out of the nest and 2 left in the nest and something had to have killed mom bc she’s...
So I’m new to incubating And hatching anything and I’m hatching domestic mallard cross. I’ve lost 2 of 3 already! I’m not sure exactly how old (Laid around 6/8-10 and put in incubator on day 6/11) this last one is the youngest I know but it’s measuring like day 26-28. It’s so dark inside the...