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aww don't give up Hon..you'll win them over :-) I always find ducklings easy to win over if you can get yourself down on their level rather than be hovering over them. When I hatch them inside the house I keep the brooder (which is a long see through plastic bin) on an old kitchen table...

Baby Number two is doing great this morning: It scoots under Mamma for a few minutes then comes up and lays like this with her. It's a pretty warm muggy morning out there so maybe it's getting too warm under Mamma LOL Mamma finally came out for a quick drink of water and a nibble of food...

I keep telling myself it's a hard lesson learned but it doesn't really help. On the good side, I went out ten minutes to tuck the ducks in for the night and found Diana duck standing straddling her nest and quietly talking in the sweetest voice she's ever used...looked down and at that moment...

Thank you Gals. I feel so horrible about it I can't even look at the ducks without crying like a baby. My husband asked if I was going to punish my other duck...I said of course not, it was an accident and it was my fault, not the duck's. Michelle

I went out to feed this morning, Mamma and baby were snuggled up so cute together. Mamma wanted to get a drink so I opened the duck house door...then I realized I hadn't brought baby feed and waterer with me to the pen...ran to get them and when I came back Scrappy was on the nest talking to...

I wish these were my babies to keep, at least they'll live here with my ducks until they're ready to go to their owner who's going to put them on her pond with adult ducks. Michelle

I did not have to step in and help at all...went out five minutes ago and tadaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa: I moved my 8 month old gal to a dog crate with a nest of her own...she is sitting on 5 of the original dud eggs...I have one more scovie egg in the incubator that is due to hatch on the...

Aww I'm so sorry you lost the babies :-( I also posted asking for advice in the Hatching section so I'll just bounce from duck pen to laptop and help the baby if it looks like I need to. Michelle

The second egg is pipped! I'm a little worried about the first egg, the baby pipped almost the whole end (big end) of the egg off, I can see the bill, a toe and fuzz, but it's like the baby pushed the very bottom of the egg shell off rather than zip around close to the center of the egg...

lovesduckies...broody duck in your room? now that's a dedicated duck lover LOL stumble...I had always heard they rarely go broody as well. Both of my gals are broody, my 14 month old gal is on the scovie eggs, my 8 month old has been on the nest with her from the beginning but I seperated...

Time for an update. No babies yet, I crawled into the duck house and Mamma let me check the eggs (if I spend too much time looking she honks at me to quit LOL) The pipped egg has 3 more spots pipped out, the membrane has a slit in it and baby is peeping a lot, the egg is also rocking a bit...

I gave my Pekin Drake away to a friend, he was even friendlier, he'd walk along with me and every now and then grab my finger and just hold it while trying to walk or he'd scurry up in front of me and step up on top of my feet, he was such a hoot. He's a Jumbo and was just too hard on my two...

ohhhhhhh I will remember that excellent point about Muscovies ;-) I'm allergic to mosquitoes and swell up something feirce when they bite me, they never bite my husband...I'm guessing if I told him that 'scovies love to eat them he may give it some thought. I'm sure he's tired of me whining...

LOL I plan on showing him your Quackers...if he still says they're ugly then I know he needs a good butt whoopin'! I almost cried when my neighbor said I could keep one of the babies and my husband said "no way, I don't want any of those ugly ducks living here". He can be such a hard head...

Here are my gals on the nest. Diana Duck (in the forefront) is my 14 month old , Scrappy Duck is my 8 month old that I hatched in the house: it's a poor photo, I took it with my phone. Michelle

I'm like you, I think they are beautiful ducks, shoot I think all ducks are beautiful :-) I'm really really hoping that once he sees the little darlin's in the pen with our other ducks he may change his mind. Since I don't plan to hand them over to their owner until they are big enough to go...

These eggs spent a week under my broody chicken, then were transferred to my incubator, due to hatch on May 18th. This evening I went to candle them and one egg was pipped, baby is into the air cell of the other egg..ackkkkk . I hollered for my husband to come lift up the duck house and I...