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I don’t have an answer for why the deformation happened. She was in a nest of ~38 eggs shared by two hens. We had 27 successful hatches. Ten eggs were pushed out halfway through, and I put them in the indoor incubator. After a few days we pitched the eggs that had obviously died and returned the...

Rivet is a one-week-old Muscovy with a prominent twist and hunch in her spine. (Unsexed, we just call the duckling female.) I brought her inside the day she hatched because she had been knocked out of the nest and neither Mama 1 or Mama 2 were interested in getting her back with the group...