10 days, he's almost there, I usually let my ducks out when they turn 3 weeks except during the cold months.
I had to bring to of my older babies in they are about 4 weeks, they still had some baby feathers on there head, well what they were doing was dipping there beaks in the water and...
OMG, I have tried to give a duck mouth to mouth to try and revive one. I did it on a chicken and believe it or not IT WORKED. LOL Crazy things we do to try and correct our errors...
OMG, So SORRY FOR YOU LOST, but you can't put the blame completely on yourself, you were trying to do the right thing. AND on the brighter side, you are teaching us some Safety skills in raising ducks, so don't feel BAD AT ALL.. Lesson to be Learned...
I had a hard lesson to learn, I kept my momma with her baby ducks and let them free range, Little did I know I had some MEAN agressive bantams, sure enough they had flipped, pecked and beaten and killed two out of four of the babies, I had out there. So the remaining babies and momma went into...
OH HOW SWEET, usually when you have some that have hatching Momma's will either neglect the babies and keep sitting OR Neglect the Eggs and pay attention to mother hood. Sounds like she picked Mother Hood...
Nice job and it's a very good thing you got the other one out because she would have probably tossed those kids around trying to steal them and in the long run end up hurting them. Woooo hoooooo lol
OH GOOD, if she's swimming then they aren't ready yet. Give them another three more days, lets see what pops out then, when it gets close to hatching time and I don't know how these mothers know it, but that's when they take there swim. That other one just must have been very impatient or she...
I think I would try and check out the eggs, if they haven't gone swimming, I think I would grab a spray bottle, SPray all the eggs and put her back on the nest. Two days and you haven't seen the second little bugger yet. I would be checking to see whats up.