I thought about leaving the one duckling with mom as her and dad seemed to be protecting it but at night when I lock them in the coop I knew there would be issues. So I put the chick with the three Cinnamon teal that hatched the same time. Here is there first swim in the tub with luke warm...
We checked the box for eggs and chicks every night when she came out to feed but never saw any chicks and only saw 3 eggs but there were 5 eggs and only one hatched. We knew she was due any day and didn't see any chicks at night but the next morning I brought the camera in to check the memory...
I wish I had a pond to enclose. Someday I'd like to build a bigger one but I heat the bigger pool now to keep it from freezing. This is one of the two eggs she laid in the pen the other didn't make it to first candle.
I'm not sure it's her first year but the first egg was almost two weeks before the second. The second and third were a day apart and now it's been three days since she laid. I can tell she still has eggs in her and she is spending most of her time in the box. One of the Cinnamons is looking a...
So far she laid three eggs but two laying in the pen and one in the coop. The first one a couple weeks ago wasn't fertilized. The other two I'm getting ready to incubate. I had to lower the boxes because she wore off some of the wing tip feathers somehow and being so fat she couldn't fly up to...