Thank you for saving the baby. I have a Mallard duck named Trixie, she and another duckling were injured at a feed/supply store by bigger ducklings so I asked about buying them at 1/2 price. The one died from complications of a leg injury the next day, the other, Trixie is now a 12 time momma of some beautiful adult babies, has Angel wing due to being trampled. She got her name from her attachment to roosters instead of drakes, but she was raised with chickens for 8 months. My other ducks ran her off constantly and the chickens accepted her. She thinks she's part chicken and still courts the roosters at 4 years old.These babies were part of our schools second grade chicken project that hatched April 6. So the next day, principal saw me in the carline and said the teacher had one chick they needed to “put out of its misery”. That “It wasn’t going to make it.” So I said, “Let me see her?” And she brought me a half-peeled, shrink-wrapped egg! So I brought her home quick, saw that she still had a lot of veins to still to recede, and put her in my incubator. The next day, I used coconut oil and tweezers to get her out because she shrink-wrapped and upside down. She came out with splay leg, and after two days standing in a large shot glass, she turned out perfect! So I told the teacher I needed one more chick because this little one needed a friend. Boy was that a mistake because at almost a month old, I can tell he is a rooster lolThe shrink-wrapped baby who I saved is on the right in this picture. She is a cutie! We named her Trixie, and the boy we named Dippin Dot. I think teachers need to be more educated about experiencing problems with hatching eggs, because they happen!
