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If the eggs are not fertile will she still sit on the nest for the full 28 days. Our girl is sitting on the nest, she did get out once after she laid a few eggs and when I got her back in the pen she laid some more eggs. So I guess she could have both kind of eggs in the nest.

Our mallard is not wild and a drake has not had access to the pen so that answer that question. Thanks ya'll for the info

I just saw pics of fertilized eggs on another post. Still have the question of her being in pen for a month can they be fertile?

Thanks, I will keep them all together until release time. We are new and learning how do you tell if the eggs are fertilized? Can they be if she has been in the pen since the first of April?

A pet mallard in our big pond had 10 ducklings, the first part of April . I caught them all and put in an old dog pen for safety and mother followed into the pen. All is well with the family, my question is can I let the mother out of the pen now or wait until I release them all back to the...

Thanks Bobberduck, the area is now clean. They hit the clean water quick to get the clumping litter off their feet

Quote: I just made a phone call and asked for pine shavings which they did not have. I am now learning other things can be used, we were trying to do what our email said from the company we ordered the ducklings. I am going to clean out the area now and get some straw tommorrow. Thanks for...

Quote: This is our first try at raising ducklings. I think I will switch to straw tommorrow, from a local feed store. Do you think I can wait that long or should I take the litter out of the area now and just use newspaper until tommorrow?

We received our 10 ,mixed group, ducklings today. Per our email said to use pine shavings for bedding. We were unable to find these shavings. We found feline pine clumping litter. This is what was put in the area the ducklings are located. They seem to be doing fine, but the question I...