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They have chick crumb, mash and meal worms with added vit b & brewers yeast. Tried giving the weak ones some mushed up egg yolk. Unfortunately another one is dying as we speak. I’m just hoping it just one of them things and won’t happen again. After this one passes I have just 2 of the 7 wood...

We have yes, 2 that have died were eating, drinking & pooping yesterday evening before they died. This is our ducks first babies we have no other hatches to compare to. I’m thinking even though eating and drinking it’s failure to thrive as the bounciest 2 are a lot bigger than the ones that have...

She is a first year. My brother in law hatched mum last year so these are her first babies. We still have 3 left as of this evening. One doesn’t look the best but it’s eaten & drank so only time will tell. The largest one is thriving. All the others seemed a lot smaller than him.

Yes 24 degrees Celsius in my living room, it’s quite warm here at the minute (England) and we don’t have air con. Upstairs in the house is unbearable

Unfortunately we just lost another one. We have 3 of the wood ducks left now out of 7. Feeling very disheartened and dreading the kids coming home from school :(

Another update (and advice). Unfortunately today 3 of the wood ducks have died. All 3 went from running around to sitting & sleeping then closing eyes and dying within a couple of hours. There is another 1 that to me looks slower than all the rest. The other 3 are running riot, chirping & the...

Update - all wood ducks have now hatched around 4-5 days later than expected. Out of the 8 that started to hatch 7 made it. 5 are running riot in the brooder with the teal. We have one that was in the wrong position & pipped through the side of the egg. It has successfully hatched this morning...

No I have them in separate rooms, we have small children so I keep them where they can’t be touched! Would you recommend still misting the wood ducks at this stage?

Unfortunately 1 out of 9 hasn’t made it but was always behind everyone else. Humidity has finally come down to 35%. They definitely don’t look as ready the teals who are shadowing the air cell & will be going into lockdown today. Time to get the brooder ready!

Thanks, I’ve put the teal eggs in a different incubator and lowered the humidity to 35% for the wood ducks. It’s managed to drop down to 40% since last night but the weather is very humid at the minute so I think it will struggle to go any lower. Just crossing my fingers now

Great, thank you. I will order one as we have another lot going in after these. I have a thermometer in there so I’m not sure why I never thought about double checking the humidity! Fingers crossed I can get the air sacs bigger before they are ready! I will update hopefully with babies!

The incubator itself. All our other hatches have gone great & the teals are on target so I’m guessing it’s the eggs. I’m going to set the other incubator up & move the teals before I drop the humidity. Thanks

Ok, thanks. Current humidity is 45%. What would you recommend I go down to?

Would the have any effect on the teal? I do have another incubator if necessary

Thank you, this has never happened before but it’s our first time with wood ducks.

Larger air sack is a teal & the other is the wood duck. All of the wood duck air sacs are a similar size @picklestheduck

Hi, I have 10 eggs in an incubator currently on day 23. The ringed teal eggs are doing great and the air cell is the right size. The wood ducks are way too small for day 23. More day 10. Confused as they in the same incubator. Any help or ideas on what I could do this late on?

Hi, I have 10 eggs in an incubator currently on day 23. The ringed teal eggs are doing great and the air cell is the right size. The wood ducks are way too small for day 23. More day 10. Confused as they in the same incubator. Any help or ideas on what I could do this late on?

Hi, new to ducks & have hatched our first ducklings this year. What colour do you think these call ducks are? They are around 6 weeks old in this photo. One is male and the other female. Thanks :)